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[jack]

So, apropos previous post, tell me about Saints Cyril and Methodius? I get some idea from wikipedia, but not what they're best known for.

And tell me about garlic food. If you had a garlic party[1], what would you have that you can have garlic in? Off the top off my head (1) raw/fried garlic for the macho value (2) anything savoury (3) ice-cream. But while I love the idea, I've too little experience cooking, what would actually make sense?

For that matter, what else can you do with garlic? The only thing that springs to mind is to go around not nibbling on each others necks, and I've never found not nibbling on necks to be a very fun choice activity :)

[1] If you had a garlic party, it would probably get overwhelming sooner or later.

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[emperor]

The Cyrillic alphabet, and bringing Christianity to bits of Eastern Europe, basically.

[emperor]

I have an entire garlic recipe book somewhere...

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Roast garlic bulbs are all squishy and delicious (and not too vicious).

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Fried garlic isn't macho. But it is very yummy. As is baked garlic and pickled garlic. If you cook it, it loses the ground glass in mouth sensation, but is mmmmmmm instead.

Does still make you stink the next day, of course :-)

And, I should point out that I *have* had a garlic party. Just make sure it's summer and you are outdoors at the time. The garlic potato salad was very nice, and the garlic ice cream was delicious.

Go to one of the several garlic festivals if you are interested.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

And, I should point out that I *have* had a garlic party. Just make sure it's summer and you are outdoors at the time. The garlic potato salad was very nice, and the garlic ice cream was delicious.

Oh yes! I knew something like that, but nothing more. I seem to have heard it was a success, which is promising :)

[simont]

Garlic party: I'm vaguely contemplating doing this myself next year (on the grounds that that way I know a decent amount of the food will be me-safe :-). My ideas went roughly along the lines of

• roasted whole garlic
• garlicky dips to dip crisps/crudités/whatever in
• perhaps some more substantial party-food, such as garlic-sauce-covered chunks of cooked stuff on sticks
• there's got to be some kind of comedy garlic alcohol (garlic nog? garlic vodka?) for amusement value: people would try a mouthful and be mindboggled that anyone would drink it in quantity
• having provided that lot myself, encourage other people to bring creative garlicky stuff of their own.

I reckon that ought to be enough.

[angoel.livejournal.com]

I had an amusing idea for carrot cake with garlic icing which I'd be tempted to try out given an appropriate opportunity.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

That sounds weird, but intriguing enough to definitely want to try :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

That sounds good, I hope you do. I'd be tempted to come (even assuming I am dating someone then).

[pavanne.livejournal.com]

Olives stuffed with pickled garlic cloves!

Roast garlic is also good, and when I was a kid I used to steal pieces of the pickled-garlic-in-a-jar that my parents had for cooking, and they stopped buying it because they thought a jar didn't last nearly long enough.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

:)

[minipoppy.livejournal.com]

Garlic soup - I make it all the time. For two people you use three bulbs of garlic (not cloves - *bulbs*). And little else apart from water and parmesan. Sooo yummy and not at all smelly.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Mm, that sounds good, just as a normal thing.

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

SS. Cyril and Methodius are only associated with Cyrillic and pre-Cyrillic alphabets for me.

[ravingglory.livejournal.com]

http://www.gilroygarlicfestival.com/pages/gourmetalley.html

roast garlic is in fact really yummy and can be squeezed out on to other things without much trouble. It's very nice on pizza.

They have garlic jelly bellies in Gilroy, but I haven't tried one.

[ceb.livejournal.com]

Garlic potato salad of doom garlic garlic, pace ghoti.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

:) Indeed.

[jeal2.livejournal.com]

The book I read which said something about Cyril and Methodius said the same as Emperor. Also that they're always mentioned together - so much so that in a fictional (The Good Soldier Svejk) lunatic asylum (the book's term, not mine), "One chap even pretended to be St Cyril and St Methodius just to get a double portion."

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

LOL. I do like that.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

And thank you, hello; I never know if people who rarely comment are reading or not, it's nice to know it's interesting :)

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagna_C%C3%A0uda

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Ooh.