Advantages: Cheap and easy to grow Disadvantages: Smelly breath
The proper name for garlic is Allium sativum and it is part of the onion family. The word garlic comes from the old German word garlaeac, which means 'spear leek'. The gar means spear and refers to the pointy leaves and lic means leek, which is another member of the onion family. Garlic is a bulb which, when mature, has segments called cloves and these are held together with a white papery skin.
Garlic has been grown for centuries both for its culinary attributes and for its medicinal properties. It is thought to help prevent heart disease by lowering cholesterol levels, to have anti biotic properties and anti oxidant properties, i.e. protecting the body from those harmful free radicals. Some even claim that eating it raw is good for warding off mosquitoes, but it may also deter all but your best friends too. Garlic is truly ...
perfectlypolished 03.02.2007 (07.07.2007)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Garlic
Advantages: Very good for your health Disadvantages: Bad breath
Back again with probably one of the most used herbs in the cooking world - Garlic
The amount of time I hear people say I hate Garlic and won't cook with it, or I don't like the smell of it. They are so ignorant they don't even know it's used in most everyday things ranging from peri-peri sauce to ready meals and in lots of tinned food like soups etc.
How can you not love the smell of roasted garlic :)
As you may be able to tell I love garlic and I must go through a clump a week, its great with a massive amount of different foods, just don't use to much of it. This is where people probably make the mistake; too much Garlic can taint the food and kill the flavour of the meat.
Quite a bit of information about the Garlic coming up so hear goes.
Garlic - Allium sativum
***The Plant***
Garlic also goes by the names ...
the_enlightened_one 24.02.2007
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Advantages: Simple but effective, very cheap Disadvantages: Small and get lost easily
Everyone at work laughs at me when I get my orange peeler out but I think its fantastic. I have to be honest and say that I never eat oranges, but since buying these I have started to have the odd satsuma and that is what I use them for (maybe that's why people are laughing).
OK, its pathetic but I really don't like peeling satsumas and it puts me off eating them so when I saw these in Lakeland, 77p for 2 I had to buy them. They are made of green plastic with a ring for your finger and a small plastic 'blade' to peel the orange. The arch of plastic between the blade and the ring tapers at the ends so you can use it to dig under the peel and take it off, making it possible to peel an orange (or satsuma) without hardly touching it.
These are such a simple concept but absolutely fantastic, another Lakeland classic, the only problem ...
