New garlic discovery

Minced garlic! Why bother with garlic cloves when the minced garlic
is so cheap ($5.00 for 2 lbs)? For me, any meal that takes more than
10 minutes of prep time is out. Minced garlic saves time. Tonight
I'm adding 2 tablespoons of it to my famous herring stew. Ummmmmmm.

On 11 May 2004 12:55:56 -0700, (Brad
Sheppard) wrote:

Minced garlic! Why bother with garlic cloves when the minced garlic
is so cheap ($5.00 for 2 lbs)? For me, any meal that takes more than
10 minutes of prep time is out. Minced garlic saves time. Tonight
I'm adding 2 tablespoons of it to my famous herring stew. Ummmmmmm.


I like the taste of fresh garlic much, much better. It doesn't take
long to peel a few cloves and run them through my Zyliss garlic press.

Not that there's anything wrong with using minced to save time... I
have, but I prefer the fresh. It's worth the extra minute to me.

Cynthia

Brad Sheppard wrote:

Minced garlic! Why bother with garlic cloves when the minced garlic
is so cheap ($5.00 for 2 lbs)? For me, any meal that takes more than
10 minutes of prep time is out. Minced garlic saves time. Tonight
I'm adding 2 tablespoons of it to my famous herring stew. Ummmmmmm.

I bought some one day, and to me it just didn't have the taste of the fresh
minced garlic. There's usually more than just garlic in those tiny jars, I
can't think what they must have preserved it in, but the flavour was
just....off to me, and I now just put up with the "prep time", in order to
get that fresh minced taste.
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"Crafting Mom" wrote in message
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I bought some one day, and to me it just didn't have the taste of the
fresh
minced garlic. There's usually more than just garlic in those tiny jars,
I
can't think what they must have preserved it in, but the flavour was
just....off to me, and I now just put up with the "prep time", in order to
get that fresh minced taste.

You might try frozen minced garlic. It's much closer to the fresh one than
dried stuff. It doesn't need additives. And frozen stuff was usually *very*
fresh to start with, so it's sometimes better than not-so-fresh fresh
garlic.

On 5/12/2004 3:47 PM, Cynthia Perry wrote:
On 11 May 2004 12:55:56 -0700, (Brad
Sheppard) wrote:


Minced garlic! Why bother with garlic cloves when the minced garlic
is so cheap ($5.00 for 2 lbs)? For me, any meal that takes more than
10 minutes of prep time is out. Minced garlic saves time. Tonight
I'm adding 2 tablespoons of it to my famous herring stew. Ummmmmmm.



I like the taste of fresh garlic much, much better. It doesn't take
long to peel a few cloves and run them through my Zyliss garlic press.

Actually, the Zyliss that I have does not even require that I peel the
garlic first! :-)

--
jmk in NC

Thanks for the advice! I may try the frozen.


"Lictor" wrote in message ...
"Crafting Mom" wrote in message
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I bought some one day, and to me it just didn't have the taste of the
fresh
minced garlic. There's usually more than just garlic in those tiny jars,
I
can't think what they must have preserved it in, but the flavour was
just....off to me, and I now just put up with the "prep time", in order to
get that fresh minced taste.

You might try frozen minced garlic. It's much closer to the fresh one than
dried stuff. It doesn't need additives. And frozen stuff was usually *very*
fresh to start with, so it's sometimes better than not-so-fresh fresh
garlic.

On Thu, 13 May 2004 09:51:55 +0200, "Lictor"
wrote:

"Crafting Mom" wrote in message
...
I bought some one day, and to me it just didn't have the taste of the
fresh
minced garlic. There's usually more than just garlic in those tiny jars,
I
can't think what they must have preserved it in, but the flavour was
just....off to me, and I now just put up with the "prep time", in order to
get that fresh minced taste.

You might try frozen minced garlic. It's much closer to the fresh one than
dried stuff. It doesn't need additives. And frozen stuff was usually *very*
fresh to start with, so it's sometimes better than not-so-fresh fresh
garlic.




Where do you find the frozen garlic?

"Hoops" wrote in message
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Where do you find the frozen garlic?

In about every supermarkets here. That's the advantage of living in a
country where people actually cook with garlic. No idea which ones, if
any, sell this kind of stuff in the USA.

On Thu, 13 May 2004 10:15:18 -0400, jmk wrote:

On 5/12/2004 3:47 PM, Cynthia Perry wrote:
On 11 May 2004 12:55:56 -0700, (Brad
Sheppard) wrote:


Minced garlic! Why bother with garlic cloves when the minced garlic
is so cheap ($5.00 for 2 lbs)? For me, any meal that takes more than
10 minutes of prep time is out. Minced garlic saves time. Tonight
I'm adding 2 tablespoons of it to my famous herring stew. Ummmmmmm.



I like the taste of fresh garlic much, much better. It doesn't take
long to peel a few cloves and run them through my Zyliss garlic press.

Actually, the Zyliss that I have does not even require that I peel the
garlic first! :-)


I don't have to peel it... technically, but I like to do so.

One year, I gave a lot of folks I knew Zyliss garlic presses...
everyone just loved them!

Cynthia