I made some hummus last night with a few cloves of garlic from one of the many heads harvested from this year's home crop.
Whoa! Potent stuff!
I didn't realize how strong garlic can be... really! The smell burns my eyes and nose, and even the smallest cloves give as much or more flavor than large cloves from a head I bought at the supermarket.
It's just another example of how homegrown vegetables can taste so different from the ones we buy at the supermarket.
We harvested the garlic several weeks ago. I would say we pulled up about 25-30 heads. We saved the four largest, which we plan to plant in the fall, then washed and dried the rest and stored them in a dry, dark cupboard.
We initially thought they would last for a while. But the garlic tastes so good, we're using it all the time. And now... well, I don't think they'll last more than a couple more months.
C'est la vie.
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