Hmm Roasted 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 · Read review
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Garlic for free (well almost).

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) · Read review
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Garlic - Bad Smell of Success

Advantages: Seems to alleviate a host of ailments.
Disadvantages: Causes odour, some may be intolerant to it.

...Much seems to have been written about garlic being good for the heart, cholesterol, circulation and a host of other conditions, but I thought I would add my "two-pence-worth" based on my experience of this pungent little herb. To begin with, I must say that I have never found any benefit in taking garlic supplements, whether or not they were of the odourless variety. But I definitely have found fresh garlic bulbs to make a difference to the state of my health. Before I go any further, I would like to advise readers with medical conditions to always visit their doctor to get a proper diagnosis and only self-medicate with the appropriate medical approval. Some people have also been found to be intolerant to garlic and experienced contact dermatitis on the skin and migraine headaches. I am no expert and what follows is...

derek-j-a 30.05.2005 · Read review
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Garlic, not boring but nice.

Advantages: Versatile.
Disadvantages: Most people hate the smell

...and gives the bulbs plenty of air. Any with a thick, green stalk need using right away, as they won't keep. Remember those little cloves you kept back from planting? Save them until spring and then pot them into some gritty compost. Put out in the sun and keep watering well. Cut finger length shoots and use them in stir-fries. More shoots will grow so you can have more another day. In the kitchen you can use it in all your usual recipes, but why stop there? Try roasting whole cloves with potatoes, red onions and red peppers. Sprinkle with olive oil and fresh thyme. Roast for an hour and serve with grilled chicken breasts. Roast big tomatoes, halved, with olive oil thyme and whole garlic cloves. Puree this if you can resist eating it from the roasting dish. Fill a bottle (sterilised first) with olive oil and drop in a few cloves...

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Walkers Roast Chicken Crisps

Advantages: Good old fashioned Walkers, cheap
Disadvantages: There are better crisps out there

...Whilst devouring a ham and cheese toasted sandwich for lunch yesterday, the perfect accompaniment had to be a bag of good old fashioned Walkers Crisps...today's choice, Roast Chicken flavour. Taken from one of the 6 x 25g packs which cost approximately £1.23 from the likes of Tescos and Asda, the first thing that strikes you at the moment is the paraphernalia which covers the orange package due to Walkers' ongoing competition to save money on trips around the UK. But that's just a sideshow; you're all obviously wondering what they taste like. Well, of course they do taste like roast chicken - no surprise there thankfully - but although it pains me to say it, there are better crisps of this flavour out there. Ones with a bigger taste and crunch. These have a texture that some harsh critics would describe as cardboard-like when you...

carl.mcqueen 07.07.2009 · Read review
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Be Smart! With Smart Price Garlic Bread.

Advantages: Very reasonable in price, easy to cook.
Disadvantages: Could have been stronger inn flavour

...Review of Asda Smart Price Garlic Bread. The Product This review covers garlic bread from the Asda economy budget range, known as Smart Price. Along with many other supermarkets budget lines, Asda's Smart Price is a range of lower priced, simply packaged basic items. As I am restricted to a tight budget nowadays, I have been buying more and more products from supermarket own ranges. All my family enjoy garlic bread, we tend to eat it with a wide assortment of meals, my own favourite is a bowl of home made vegetarian pasta and a couple of slices of garlic bread...Yum! Asda's Smart Price garlic bread is a baguette shaped white loaf filled with garlic butter. Packaging The 170g frozen garlic baguette comes in the instantly recognisable Asda Smart Price uniform of a basic green and white packaging. The product description...

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How to Grow Garlic

Advantages: Really very easy to grow, and a fun project for kids.
Disadvantages: Not many, some people don't like the odor.

..."If everybody ate garlic, Then nobody would find it objectionable." French Peasant–Unknown Did you know garlic is classified as an herb? My dictionary defines an herb as "A plant or plant part valued for its medicinal, savory, or aromatic properties." So, garlic, and many other plants are really herbs! Whatever you call it, garlic is an incredibly popular flavoring for all sorts of dishes. Growing garlic is really very easy. If you love "the stinking rose," you'll love growing your own fresh garlic! Where to Plant Your Garlic Garlic loves a rich, very well-drained soil. It's a perennial (which means the plant doesn't die over the winter, and will return in the spring), but in most climates, it is treated like an annual. (Which means it's grown anew every year.) Garlic can be grown from seed, but most people plant...

RenoWriter 21.09.2001 · Read review
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Slay those vampires Garlic Lovers

Advantages: Health benefits, cheap, plentiful
Disadvantages: You might whiff a bit the next day

...'m not sure what I will do with 20 bulbs of garlic!!!!!!!!!!!!! When the green smelly leaves wither and die away then apparently the garlic is ready for harvesting. Garlic lasts for ages in the fridge but you have to harvest the whole crop. I suppose this makes sense as if you leave it in the ground it will go all soggy so dig them up from the ground, make sure they are dried in a warm place and voila you have garlic for ever. It has a long shelf life and a bulb could last about a month (no chance in my garlic loving house I must say.) USES Garlic is a herb/bulb that can be used in almost any savoury dish. Its lovely in spaghetti bolognese, spices up a roast chicken nicely, is amazing stuffed into roast lamb, can be used on toasted bread for 'proper' garlic bread, is lovely with roasted vegetables. The list really is endless...

natalierees 22.01.2004 · Read review
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Budget Garlic bread, great value

Advantages: -
Disadvantages: -

...Garlic Bread is one of my favourite accompaniments to pasta , pizza, or salad . I've been trying to economise, which mainly means that instead of buying Asda own brand, I'm trying, where I can to step down to the smartprice brand - the cheapest they offer- in order to make my money go further . This frozen baguette cost me 36p, which, considering Asda do a 2 pack of their own brand for 98p, would save me 26 pence if I purchased two - not a huge saving, but a saving none the less . Its roughly the same size too, although perhaps slightly less plump, and is divided into nine slices (7 real slices, and 2 ends ) The packaging, like most of the Smart Price products, is a plain white with green writing - nothing to write home about, but it does make it easy to find the smart price items amongst all the others . Cooking this is simple...

Thehonesttruth 14.07.2009 · Read review
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Walkers Roast Chicken

Advantages: Yummy, nice taste, strong
Disadvantages: Quite a few calories, salt

...Walkers crisps have been around now for well over 60 years now. A gentleman called Henry Walker took over a butchers shop in the 1880's but after the second World War he saw production go down and had to look for other ways to make money. He began hand-slicing and frying potatoes and sold them as potato crisps, the first flavour being Cheese and Onion. Now there are so many flavours to choose from the choice is overwhelming but I am going to review the Roast Chicken. This has probably got to be my favourite of all the different flavours although it's a hard one to call. Amazingly this flavour really does taste like chicken. The crisps have quite a strong taste and they have a very definite herby flavour as well as what looks like some herbs on the crisps too. They have probably the most flavour out of all the different flavours...

Spottydog11 30.07.2008 · Read review
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