garlic!!

i don’t know about you, but i LOVE garlic. i’m serious. LOVE.

i put it in everything. once, as a surprise, one of my friends made me roasted garlic ice cream - it was the best ice cream i’ve ever had.

i add it to recipes right at the end, so that it keeps it’s kick. i eat it raw, on crackers. i use heaping tablespoons of it in every recipe. i am an addict.

a few years ago, when matt and i lived way up north in the boonies, the nearest real grocery store was 400km away. we grocery shopped once a month. but i COULD NOT live without garlic!!

luckily the grocery store 400km away sold garlic in 2 pound bags. heck yes. but even then, considering the quantity we eat, it’s not practical to have to peel and crush garlic for every meal… so i took this suggestion from my mother in law, and i’ve never looked back…

i have gotten quicker and quicker at this process over the years, and even though we live in a city now, i still process garlic this way because it saves me time on a daily basis.

i buy one of these huge bags of garlic…

and i sit down in front of a movie, and peel the whole thing. i can do it in the span of a single movie now, although when i first started processing my garlic this way it would take me hours. practice makes perfect!

once all of the cloves are peeled, i chop off the hard ends, and throw them in the food processor.

on the “pulse” setting, i chop it up finely, using a spatula to scrape down rogue cloves that go flying/stick to the edges. this takes less than 5 minutes.

what a beautiful sight!

once everything is chopped up nice and fine, i spoon it into mason jars. a bag of garlic does about 2 pint-sized jars, or a little less (and you can never use the jars for anything else after, the garlic smell becomes a part of them).

for some reason the garlic turns bright green after a few days. i have no idea why this happens, but it doesn’t change the flavour at all, so *shrug*.