Apartment Therapy Tagged: garlic

Seasonal Spotlight: Garlic

If you find a farmer who sells garlic, don't hesitate - grab as much as you can while the grabbing is good! Fresh local garlic is like culinary gold, and you can be sure that the farmer's stock will b...

What's the Deal with Shallots?

For a long time, shallots just confused us. They look like garlic but taste like sweet onions, and they're finicky to peel on top of everything else! Why would we want to cook with them?...

Word of Mouth: Gremolata

Gremolata is a simple Italian condiment made of parsley, garlic, and lemon zest. It's a traditional accompaniment to osso bucco, but it also pairs well with other dishes....

Video: How To Peel Garlic - Two Ways
One Minute Tip

We're returning to our series of quick, 1-minute kitchen tips. Because, after all, while we'd all like to brush up on our knife skills, who has time to watch a video longer than 60 seconds or so? So...

Tip: Roast Peeled Garlic On The Grill

Although roasting peeled garlic on the grill sounds like a logistical nightmare, it's one of our favorite ways to multitask, save money and keep the heat down in our kitchen as the summer months appr...

Good Question: How To Roast Garlic Without an Oven

Here's an interesting question from reader Hannah, who is craving roasted garlic! Help me! I am studying abroad (in Australia) and just moved in to a dorm. The one thing I am craving, because it's s...

Good Question: A Neat Way to Store Garlic and Onions?

Lyla is neatening up her kitchen, and she is annoyed by garlic and onion skins falling all over the counter. Can you suggest a better storage option for garlic and onions? I'm looking for suggestions...

Soup of the Day: Creamy Garlic (Knoblauchcremesuppe)

Knoblauchcremesuppe! Say that eight times fast. It's actually a very simple thing, and it's quite deserving of our soup of the day. Creamy garlic soup, an Austrian favorite. ...

Basic Technique: How to Cook Garlic Without Burning It

Early in our cooking career and for a long time after, we assumed that you needed to cook garlic as long as its cousin, the onion. Our results were spotty: sometimes it was ok, sometimes we picked bur...

Quick Tip: How to Peel Garlic by Hand

For years, we've gotten the skins off garlic by smashing the clove with the flat of our knives, but we recently learned a gentler technique. This one involves "pinching" the skin off using your bare h...

Recipe: Oven-Roasted Tomato Jam

Sometimes a recipe arises from a confluence of ideas and inspiration -- a convergence of influence, flavor, and downright craving. This recipe is one of those. It was inspired by Laurie Colwin's raptu...

Harvest Cooking Tip: Roast Garlic Cloves Inside Squash

Here's a quick, flavor-boosting tip we've been using with our acorn squash lately. ...

Why Is My Pickled Garlic Blue?

Two weeks ago, I pickled a bunch of garden vegetables and have been storing them in the fridge. Last night I pulled the jar out to see if they were ready and noticed one of the garlic cloves is blue....

Food Science: Help for Garlic Breath!

Some say that the only cure for garlic breath is to avoid eating this pungent allium altogether. But for folks who can't help but throw in an extra clove or three when a recipe only calls for one, a l...

Grill Tonight: Grilled Tomatoes with Rosemary and Garlic

Here's one more way to celebrate our first ripe tomato of the season: grilled tomatoes. We are in love with these grilled tomatoes from the marvelous food blog Lucullian Delights. ...

Recipe: DIY Garlic Paste

Garlic paste is one of those things that we hardly ever think of making ourselves. It comes from a jar, right?! Homemade garlic paste is really just one step beyond mincing, and the results are indis...

Tea Strainer and Garlic Grater: 2 Good Things From MUJI

We recently visited MUJI in New York, and we're really enjoying two of the things we brought back for our kitchen. ...

Cuban Mojo: Marinade and Dipping Sauce

One of our new favorite neighborhood restaurants in Chicago is a great little Cuban place, and we'll order just about anything that comes with their garlicky mojo sauce. When we came across this Flick...

Recipe Review: Mark Bittman's Rosemary-Lemon White Bean Dip

With all the rain and warm weather we've had in Boston recently, our pot of rosemary has started to look a bit wild and scraggly around the edges. It's in definite need of a trim! We tagged this Mark...

Knife Skills: How to Mince Garlic

Some folks will tell you that the best way to mince garlic is with a garlic press! A garlic press is certainly handy, but if you don't have one or just feeling like doing it the old-fashioned way, he...

How to Peel Garlic Quickly and Easily

I encounter a lot of chefs that don't know how to peel garlic and end up doing it the long, hard way. Other chefs use packaged peeled garlic. Personally, I prefer to buy my garlic fresh at the Farme...

Good Question: What Can I Do With Smoked Garlic?

At Fairway in Brooklyn this morning I came upon something new to me: smoked garlic from France. It has an unusual smell -- not like other smoked foods, more just like fire. It only came in whole bra...

Garlic Unitasker of the Day: Chef'N Garlic Zoom Chopper

There are a few ingredients that merit an entire category of unitaskers all to themselves, and garlic is one of them. We've talked about the RoyalVKB Garlic Crusher, the Garlic E Zee Dice, and Garlic ...

Trader Joe's Pantry: One-Clove Garlic

Here's something new we tried last week: Trader Joe's Emperor's New Cloves Garlic - just one clove per head. We were curious about this - what does just one-clove garlic look like? We hate peeling g...

The Celluloid Pantry: Garlic Prep and Goodfellas (1990)

[Beginning this week, we'll be rerunning some favorites from The Celluloid Pantry while Nora enjoys a writer's residency at The Ragdale Foundation. We'll be back with all-new posts October 9.] Every ...

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