Category Archives: Gourmet Food with Garlic

Cook up some garlic scapes and escape the culinary ordinary!

The garlic scapes are up, and we have started picking! They are so good this year, we just want to sing about them! Garlic scapes are the stalks that grow from the bulbs of hardneck garlic plants. Once the scapes … Continue reading

Posted in Garlic and Health, garlic scapes, Gourmet Food with Garlic, Local Food, Vermont | Leave a comment

Garlic Scapes are on the Menu

It’s scape season and scapes are on the menu at our house! We’re picking scapes like mad and eating them every chance we get. Last night we enjoyed chicken BBQ with cauliflower “rice” made with sweet onions and garlic scapes … Continue reading

Posted in garlic scapes, Gourmet Food with Garlic, In the Garlic, Local Food, Vermont | 1 Comment

Ahhhh…. Green garlic

Just about the time we run out of garlic from last year’s crop it’s time to pick “doubles” (two stems of garlic growing together).  One stem is left in the ground and the other goes from “farm to table.” Often … Continue reading

Posted in Gourmet Food with Garlic, In the Garlic, Local Food, Organic Food, Vermont | Leave a comment

Nothing says Happy Thanksgiving like the smell of Garlic in the kitchen

To celebrate the season and the turkeys rooting around the fields at the garlic farm, we thought we’d look into favorite garlic-infused holiday recipes. Turkey of course is the most popular dish, but we also looked at some vegetarian options … Continue reading

Posted in Gourmet Food with Garlic | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

What to do with too much zucchini? Add Garlic, of course

Garlic can add interest to any vegetable – even zucchini. On the eve of National Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor’s Porch Night (yes it is a real national holiday, ask any Vermont gardener), it is appropriate that we celebrate … Continue reading

Posted in Gourmet Food with Garlic | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Trout Season Opens in Vermont: Make a Wish and Chop the Garlic

To many in Vermont, the opening of trout season is a rite of spring. And for some anglers, fly fishing is the quintessence of the sport. For them “sport” is not quite the right word, “passion” and “obsession” come closer … Continue reading

Posted in Gourmet Food with Garlic | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

How did Italian food conquer the world? Garlic! One Clove at a Time

The April Fools Day forecast for Vermont and the Northeast is for snow. Heavy, wet snow: 8 inch accumulation and 30-degree temperatures. It might not be pretty. So like many of my fellow Vermonters, I’ll be seeking solace in food. … Continue reading

Posted in Gourmet Food with Garlic | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Vermont Maple History and the Union of Maple and Garlic

As winter clings to Vermont (temperatures only in the 20s and 30s this week), Vermonters revel in a little sweet tradition: maple sugaring. Sugar shacks across the state are ablaze with wood-fired boilers reducing sap to Vermont maple syrup (the … Continue reading

Posted in Gourmet Food with Garlic | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments