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Posts tagged “garlic”

Harvest Cooking Tip: Roast Garlic Cloves Inside Squash

Here's a quick, flavor-boosting tip we've been using with our acorn squash lately. ...

Why Is My Pickled Garlic Blue?

Two weeks ago, I pickled a bunch of garden vegetables and have been storing them in the fridge. Last night I pulled the jar out to see if they were ready and noticed one of the garlic cloves is blue....

Food Science: Help for Garlic Breath!

Some say that the only cure for garlic breath is to avoid eating this pungent allium altogether. But for folks who can't help but throw in an extra clove or three when a recipe only calls for one, a l...

Grill Tonight: Grilled Tomatoes with Rosemary and Garlic

Here's one more way to celebrate our first ripe tomato of the season: grilled tomatoes. We are in love with these grilled tomatoes from the marvelous food blog Lucullian Delights. ...

Recipe: DIY Garlic Paste

Garlic paste is one of those things that we hardly ever think of making ourselves. It comes from a jar, right?! Homemade garlic paste is really just one step beyond mincing, and the results are indis...

Tea Strainer and Garlic Grater: 2 Good Things From MUJI

We recently visited MUJI in New York, and we're really enjoying two of the things we brought back for our kitchen. ...

Cuban Mojo: Marinade and Dipping Sauce

One of our new favorite neighborhood restaurants in Chicago is a great little Cuban place, and we'll order just about anything that comes with their garlicky mojo sauce. When we came across this Flick...

Recipe Review: Mark Bittman's Rosemary-Lemon White Bean Dip

With all the rain and warm weather we've had in Boston recently, our pot of rosemary has started to look a bit wild and scraggly around the edges. It's in definite need of a trim! We tagged this Mark...

Knife Skills: How to Mince Garlic

Some folks will tell you that the best way to mince garlic is with a garlic press! A garlic press is certainly handy, but if you don't have one or just feeling like doing it the old-fashioned way, he...

How to Peel Garlic Quickly and Easily

I encounter a lot of chefs that don't know how to peel garlic and end up doing it the long, hard way. Other chefs use packaged peeled garlic. Personally, I prefer to buy my garlic fresh at the Farme...

Good Question: What Can I Do With Smoked Garlic?

At Fairway in Brooklyn this morning I came upon something new to me: smoked garlic from France. It has an unusual smell -- not like other smoked foods, more just like fire. It only came in whole bra...

Garlic Unitasker of the Day: Chef'N Garlic Zoom Chopper

There are a few ingredients that merit an entire category of unitaskers all to themselves, and garlic is one of them. We've talked about the RoyalVKB Garlic Crusher, the Garlic E Zee Dice, and Garlic ...

Trader Joe's Pantry: One-Clove Garlic

Here's something new we tried last week: Trader Joe's Emperor's New Cloves Garlic - just one clove per head. We were curious about this - what does just one-clove garlic look like? We hate peeling g...

The Celluloid Pantry: Garlic Prep and Goodfellas (1990)

[Beginning this week, we'll be rerunning some favorites from The Celluloid Pantry while Nora enjoys a writer's residency at The Ragdale Foundation. We'll be back with all-new posts October 9.] Every ...

Survey: How Do You Prep Your Garlic?

After all the lively back-alley trash-talkin' yesterday on The Celluloid Pantry about gangsters and the fine art of garlic-chopping, we thought it was time for a survey: ...