Do you eat raw garlic

[vapechimp]

Yes raw, like cloves. I used to eat them raw. Oh yeah the smell in my mouth after that but I am single. But it is such a good appetizer. Nowadays avoid hot food but back then I would eat 5-6 cloves on one sitting

[MinionJoe]

We use a lot of garlic in my household, but I personally don't use much of it raw.

Still, I'd prefer it raw to burnt like my friend always does to it.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Yes but as a side to another dish and no more then one or two cloves per day. Got to keep that failing blood circulation going.

[De Hollandse Ezel]

when I use garlic in my cooking it is usually garlic powder.

only for speciffic dishes I go and buy fresh garlic what perhaps happens only 4-6 times a year.

most of what I not use than usually spoils and get tossed eventually.

I not eat that much garlic.. I care how I smell to others..
if you eat to much you going to sweat the stuff.

onions and sharlots I do use.
I also have acces to wild european garlic (alium ursinum) that I do use the flowers and leaves off in spring amd early summer.

[vapechimp]

"most of what I not use than usually spoils and get tossed eventually."

Yes it will spoil but it takes quite a while. Maybe a month or so and still is okay to eat

Ginger is also good spice with many health benefits and strong taste

[De Hollandse Ezel]

Originally posted by vapechimp:

"most of what I not use than usually spoils and get tossed eventually."

Yes it will spoil but it takes quite a while. Maybe a month or so and still is okay to eat

Ginger is also good spice with many health benefits and strong taste

I often not use it that long it sits in a drawer unused..

fresh ginger I use more frequent.

anyway as to OP question I NEVER use garlic raw.
unles we talk the wild alium ursinum that I do eat raw in salads.

[Electric Cupcake]

Garlic is best when it's starting to sprout.

[vapechimp]

What kind of salad.

I will tell you one salad that I often prepare - green onions (both the white and the green), tomatoes, cucumber, raddish, and lettuce, and parsley (whole bunch). All chopped up. Then serve with salt, oil, and vinegar

You can add bell pepper too, and if you wish top with feta cheese

[Tonepoet]

No. I'll eat heaps and heaps of the stuff cooked but raw stings too much. I hate raw onion too. I always throw the onions into the pan when I cook a hamburger just so they'll be thoroughly cooked by the time I'm done.

[Abaddon the Despoiler]

Sometimes. It's good for the blood.

[Tiberius]

No, but i eat a lot of roasted garlic

[De Hollandse Ezel]

Originally posted by vapechimp:

What kind of salad.

I will tell you one salad that I often prepare - green onions (both the white and the green), tomatoes, cucumber, raddish, and lettuce. All chopped up. Then serve with salt, oil, and vinegar

You can add bell pepper too, and if you wish top with feta cheese

the taste of the flowers and leaves of wild garlic is subtile.. very mild.
I not want it overpowered.
I usually opt to let the wild garlo
ic be the showmaker.. and only use less flavored ingredients.
lettuce, cumcumber, bit of g
freshly grilled chickenbreast.. some salt and a mild vegetable oil (usally avocadooil or sunfloweroil) some croutons and a nice amount of those wild garlic leaves. and a handfull of flowers on top.

my default salad is indeed stronger but wild garlic would be drowed in it :

lettuce, cumcumber, tomato, bellpepper, radish, red onion, boiled egg, spring onion canned tuna, lemonzest, lemonjuice, olive oil, black pepper, salt, apple vinager.

as a dutch a common meal is a few boiled potato, a piece of meat usually grilled baked or stewed in butter, this butter will tosses over the potato, one cooked vegetable, a cold mixed salad (which means lettuche + added stuff)

but even when I eat a day pasta or rice.. I usually still make a salad.. those extra greens need to be there..

[vapechimp]

Here is one another recipe if you like to try, if you are into hot

Hot green peppers - fry them in the pan with oil. Not much, just let them explode and crack, soften them up. Then move to vinegar (together with the oil you used to fry them), add salt, and little bit water and lots of garlic. Soak them in this brine and let them stay there all the time.

[De Hollandse Ezel]

Originally posted by vapechimp:

Here is one another recipe if you like to try, if you are into hot

Hot green peppers - fry them in the pan with oil. Not much, just let them explode and crack, soften them up. Then move to vinegar (together with the oil you used to fry them), add salt, and little bit water. Soak them in this brine and let them stay there all the time.

I buy green peppers when I have a bbq grill them and eat them straight.
raw filled with cheese, spanish ham and chopped walnut is good too.

I hate them in my salad though.
I hate hardly any delivery restaurant serves good salads I gave up ordering as I want my salad and theirs always suck with those hot peppers..

might as well cook myself if I make the salad anyway..

I do tend to not like pickled stuff much I do like vinnager but only fresgly added..

so yes to cumcumber slices in vinagar no no gurks...

I make a cumcumber sidedish (not consider it salad) of slice cumcumber thin put in bowl and submerge in mix of 50% vinagar 50% oil.. and plenty of black pepper.. make 1hr before eating make sure it is chilled well.. (if near freezing when served its best)

[vapechimp]

Be careful when frying hot green peppers. They explode like violently like dynamite in hot oil, and this can go straight into your eye, both hot oil and pepper hot juice. Put a cover on top

[De Hollandse Ezel]

Originally posted by vapechimp:

Be careful when frying hot green peppers. They explode like violently like dynamite in hot oil, and this can go straight into your eye, both hot oil and pepper hot juice. Put a cover on top

oh you mean THAT type of frying? as in like how you fry chips.
no that makes them unhealthy...

I only ever grilled them on charcoal grill after merely dipping them in olive oil..

I guess a skillet with some olive oil can work to..

and as for oil spitting.. I know my stuff..

the most damgerous thing of peppers.. cutting them..
if you not wear gloves.. and think you washed your hands after the cutting.. at least they look clean.. and need to visit the loo.. the pain is real..