garlic
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Garlic Confit Deserves a Spot on Your Christmas Table
If you’re hosting Christmas for a large group, you’ll need to think of ways to pack in a lot of flavours without making main dishes unapproachable for picky eaters. Garlic is a popular and versatile savoury ingredient, but for the garlic averse, heavily loading the turkey or mashed potatoes with hunks of the pungent stuff…
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Impress Yourself With This Easy, Four-Ingredient Thai Dish
If you’ve ever come home hungry to a fridge that only has stray vegetables and a door of condiments, you can relate to the emotional breakdown I had recently after a recent vacation. Jet-lagged and hungry, I nearly teared up when I opened the fridge. Inside, there was a lone cabbage, rolling around like a…
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Why Is My Garlic Blue?
With a few noticeable exceptions, such as blueberries, blue raspberry candy, and certain cocktails, blue is not a colour you want your food to be, especially if you weren’t planning on it. Blue (or turquoise, or green) garlic is particularly startling. Garlic is supposed to be beige, golden brown, or a deep, sticky black, but…
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Consider the (Air-Fried) Lobster
The lobster is a fascinating animal, with an equally fascinating culinary history. Like most foods that have a reputation for being decadent and pricey, it’s impossible to talk about lobster without talking about class and capitalism.