[SJackson]

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[Graybeard58]

Garlic is great flavoring in a lot of things and I use it frequently.

I didn't read the entire article so maybe I missed it but did it mention garlic's powers to keep vampires away?

[ansel12]

Backwoods Home Magazine the best of its type, I'm a long time subscriber.

[T.L.Sink]

I agree and I take an odorless garlic capsule every day -- thus getting the benefits without the bad breath!

[ndt]

I must eat 6-7 heads a week. Just roasted (with a little olive oil) and French bread. Luckily my wife is as big a garlic junky as I am or my habit could cause a lot of problems.

[MoochPooch]

I've driven out every vampire in town thanks to my love of garlic. (Unfortunately, lost a few friends, too.)

I like chopped up garlic with parsley & oil. Great dip. (We call is "sparlic.")

[Clemenza]

There’s no excuse for being unfamiliar with garlic.

Bears repeating. I cook with garlic at least five times a week. Adds depth to otherwise simple dishes.

Words of advice: California Garlic is superior to the flavorless stuff they export out of Asia.

[Fintan]

My favorite garlic dishes.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Terrific article! I forget to read that site so thanks for the reminder. :)

Another shameless plug for The Seed Savers Exchange. They have WONDERFUL garlic for eating and planting. I recommend the German Extra Hardy.

http://www.seedsavers.org

Is there anyone here that grows garlic and uses the garlic "scapes" which are the blooms on the hard-neck garlic varieties? (Versus soft-neck, which don't produce the scapes.) I have an "accidental" garlic patch that's in with one of my rows of raspberries. I'll never be able to dig it out, due to the steel-belted raspberry roots, so when the garlic blooms, I cut off about 6" of the stem, plus the bloom (which is a bunch of small garlic bulbs which, if left alone, will drop in the fall and that's how garlic naturally re-plants itself) and steam them.

Heaven! You can also just chop up the scape/bloom and use it as you would chopped, fresh garlic. What a useful, wonderful, tasty plant garlic is! :)

I'm going to make that New Potato & Garlic recipe tomorrow with a Rosemary roasted chicken. Yum! I grow herbs in the house under lights all year. I couldn't live without them.

You can also plant a garlic bulb in a pot in a sunny window, and when the "greens" start coming up, just cut them off and use them like chives. Deeee-lish! :)

[MotleyGirl70]

Garlic helps with the kavorka.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

A bump for a later read :)