This is pretty much my go to. If a recipe calls for 1 clove, u know that person is wrong.
54Once I had a recipe call for half a clove. Half. A. Clove. If you don't like garlic why put it in the recipe!
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Is this referring to the standard quadrupling, or does it mean to quadruple the standard quadrupling?
40Either way, needs more garlic.
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Story time.
When my wife and I were dating and in high school, she decided to cook a meal for her parents. She found a recipe for some kind of baked penne.
My wife's family weren't terribly familiar with making Italian food. They are Pennsylvania Dutch, and her mother wasn't all that interested in cooking. The only garlic my wife ever saw growing up was garlic powder. This was her first time cooking with real garlic. Her mother never bothered because it was too much work.
My wife (well, girlfriend at the time) called me up to tell me she understood why her mother never used real garlic. She said the recipe called for one clove, and "it took forever to peel all those little things".
I had to explain to her that each of those little things were the cloves. What she added to the recipe wasn't one clove of garlic. It was the entire bulb.
There must have been vampires just dropping out of the sky over their house that night.
The smartest thing my dad did in his life was marry my mom. Luckily for me, my wife found inspiration in my mother's cooking. The whole reason she wanted to make the recipe she made was because she wanted to learn to cook like my mom. Over the years she learned my mom's recipes (lots of ethnic food: Italian, Slavic, Greek, Jewish, etc.).
She is still a big fan of garlic, although she doesn't typically include an entire bulb in the recipe.
35My MIL did something similar in a soup.
Gotta say, I fucking loved that soup. Had to sleep on the couch for a few days, was 100% worth it.
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My wife: "Those are rookie numbers"
34Are you secretly married to my sister? I just sent her this picture and that was her exact response.
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Garlic bread? No, no, sweetie. Breaded garlic.
29Fried individual cloves, like cheese curds
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4 cloves, pfffft. 4 HEADS of garlic.
16Never trust a recipe, you measure garlic with the heart!
16Quadruple? And you call yourself a garlic lover. Poseur.
15If you have ingredients other than garlic you do not have enough garlic
13Still needs more garlic.
12What causes this? As pungent as garlic is, why is there never enough in the dish, no matter how much I add?
3As far as I understand it, the flavor and smell of garlic that we experience is made of mostly volatile compounds that get broken down with heat. So the longer garlic is cooked the less of that pungent smell and flavor is in your final dish. So if you want more garlic flavor in your dishes, you can add it later in the cooking process.
6Do you use powder, minced or fresh? Previous two the fix is just to use more but with fresh it's a little more finicky. When you're mincing your fresh garlic cut it a bunch of times, add some kosher salt and just scrape and mush everything together with your knife. Garlic flavor comes from the compounds locked behind the cell walls so you've got to breach as many of those cell walls as possible if you want max garlic flavor.
Also as the other guy said heat will also denature the garlic flavor quite a bit so if you want that super sharp fresh garlic taste then it needs to be hot as little as possible.
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Exactly. There is little reason to live without garlic. And the more the better!
11Stop giving my fiancee ideas. I'm fucking Italian and even I think she overdoes it.
9I'm fucking Italian and even I think she overdoes it.
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Garlic is a pain to peel but the more you peel the more worth it it becomes. No pain, no gain.
If a recipe calls for one clove and you peel just one clove then you will hardly taste it. If a recipe calls for one clove and you peel and mince four, then now you can taste it and now it was worth it.
8If you put pressure on the garlic cloves before peeling then the dry skin will fall off, and the remaining peeling will be very easy. I achieve that by rolling the garlic cloves several times on a hard surface under hard pressure from my hands. Another method with nearly similar results is putting the garlic cloves in a container (empty marmalade jar) and shaking that container vigorously. I prefer the rolling as it works faster and more reliable.
Applies to onions, too, by the way although they need less pressure.
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Another good idealist to leave the garlic bigger or cook the garlic less than most recipes state.
6Don't forget to replace most or all of the stock in the recipe with garlic stock, roasted garlic stock
6Is garlic stock stock made entirely from garlic? So no onions, carrots, celery, ...?
2I just looked at the ingredients for the Better than Bouillon roasted garlic stock and the only veggie in the stock. There are thickeners in the ingredients of that but if you were to make your own you could skip or add other veggies.
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No, you quadruple the recipe and thus sixteenruple the garlic
2I'll be that person then, please don't do this, garlic is disgusting when its more than an accent.
-1GARLIC BREAD. garlic knots. fried garlic. garlic confit. garlic parmesan wings. garlic and herb dip. garlic stuffed olives. etc etc etc
one of my all time favorite recipes: fry onions and garlic in a pan and then decide what you're having for dinner.
10Here's a killer garlic bread recipe.
Grab a demi baguette from your grocery store's bakery. Cut it in half both lengthwise and crosswise. Throw them on a sheet pan, cut side up. Drizzle with olive oil, season with salt and pepper. Put in the oven at 350 for 12 minutes or so, so that they're lightly toasted and the cut side is crisp. Remove from the oven.
This is where the fun begins. Peel a few cloves of fresh garlic... and rub that shit directly on the baguette. Keep running it across the bread until it is gone. One clove total for a balanced taste of garlic, two cloves total for a strong garlic journey, and one for each piece if you are become garlic destroyer of breath.
Garlic spread? Pre-made frozen garlic bread? All trash. Have this once and I guarantee you will never, ever make any other inferior substitute again.
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People who do this are disgusting. It is ruining the food, it's exactly like the people who let all the ice melt in a drink.
Edit: I should clarify, I don't care if you do it to your own food. But don't try to feed me that swill. So many nice dinners in my life have been ruined by people with no sense of taste. 😂
Edit 2: ok upon reflection, I'm sorry for insulting garlic enthusiasts. Enjoy your life xoxo
-9Easy there, partner.
5You and I might as well be worst enemies, then. You can never have enough garlic in the dish, and I let the ice melt because I want more fluids, and chewing on ice is unsatisfying and annoying.
FWIW I mostly do this with tea and juice. Never with carbonated beverages. I prefer them straight out of the fountain/fridge with no ice at all, cause melted ice in soda ruins the taste.
5I don't understand ice in drinks at all. It displaces what I want (a delicious cold beverage) with what I don't want (blocks of ice and watered-down drink).
Cold brewed coffee: delicious. Iced coffee: no thanks!
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