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Garlic is great - not only is it good for you but it tastes fantastic and can be used in almost everything. This op is more about ways of using garlic and its benefits than growing the stuff - but I believe that is quite easy. Quite a few people I know claim not to like garlic, but then eat loads of things that it is almost certainly in. Pasta sauce, your friday night curry, on pizza...almost all ready meals and sauces contain garlic or garlic powder. But nothing beats real fat chunky cloves of fresh garlic. I buy organic. Garlic contains a chemical called allicin, which is good for your heart and is why they sell garlic tablets in health food shops. I'd never buy them - I'd much rather eat the normal stuff. Some of the best uses of garlic are:
With rosemary stuffed into slits in the flesh of lamb to be roasted. Goves the meat great flavour.
Whole bulbs roasted in the oven and then squeezed out of the skin to make a paste to put on fresh crusty bread. MMMMmm.
With tomatoes and any kind of pasta.
Loads of fresh garlic in homemade curry is fab - my indian mother in law says to use 6-8 cloves for 4 people, and she's right!
And don't worry about the smell - one mouthful of fresh parsley chewed up well will negate the whiff.
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07.04.2001 00:34
I love garlic too - & parsley :-)
03.04.2001 14:02
I tried raw grlic the other day - it was vile! Adds great flavour to food
03.04.2001 13:48
Mmmm... garlic and tomatoes on pasta... that'll teach me to spend my lunch hour on Ciao... you've made me hungry now! Lol!