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Wungus
Mar 5, 2004

dino. posted:

But sometimes, a recipe calls for one clove of garlic, because you're not meant to be bludgeoned over the head with garlic. The garlic is not meant to be the focus.
Garlic is something I love but yeah, I recently burned myself on this after deciding, a month ago, that "nah, these pickles don't just need one clove of garlic, there's like twenty cukes in the crock. I'll add three more cloves."

They're... not good.

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Wungus
Mar 5, 2004

I will say that once I got my first container of asafoetida, I found myself rethinking how I used garlic. I had that described to me as "an Indian garlic alternative" and it's super not that but the way it pumps up every other spice made me literally sit down and reconsider how I use fragrant spices in general - which turned into realizing half the dishes I was making, I was drowning out the flavors I wanted and replacing them with nothing but garlic/chilies/etc.

Now I'm still using garlic all the fuckin' time, but if I'm not loving up a batch of pickles I'm at least doing it intentionally as an assisting flavor. Or I'm just straight up making something like garlic soup.

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