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Recipe Time: Garlic-ade / Garlic Lemonade!
As many of you know, Meg and I sold our delicious garlicade at the Long Island Garlic Festival last weekend. I know what you’re thinking, it sounds gross, but truth be told it actually tastes really good. And that’s not just because Meg and I love garlic either, it’s legit yummy. As one customer put it, “It tastes like lemonade, but it smells like grandma’s house!” Actually that’s probably the best way to describe it since it does carry that heavy pungent garlic stank we all know and love, but has most of the flavor of lemonade. If you’ve ever made lemon garlic chicken in the oven, this tastes pretty much like the juice in the pan, only sweet and cool and refreshing! Don’t be a pansy-ass, try it! You might like it!
Food 101: How to Roast Garlic
We’ve had garlic on our mind a lot lately, due to all our prep work for the upcoming Garlic Festival. There are so many things you can do with garlic. Yet when people think of garlic, what generally springs mind is the characteristics associated with raw garlic- super strong smell, strong flavor, and sometimes even spicy. There’s a softer side to garlic however, and that arrives through roasting. When you roast garlic it gets soft, and yes, even kind of sweet. Oh yeah, and the aroma is heavenly. The best part is that roasting garlic is super easy. Follow me!
PCFG Cooking Demonstration at the Long Island Garlic Festival!
As mentioned, the two of us will be at the Long Island Garlic Festival, this year! After going last year as consumers, we decided going as vendors this year would be a great opportunity to share some of our yummy food with everybody. In case you’re wondering, here’s what’s on the menu:
Garlic Infused Popcorn – Good old-fashioned popcorn cooked in and with garlic and garlic spices. Has a light garlic flavor, and slight saltiness to it, and is perfect for snacking.
Garlic Lemonade – So much better than it sounds in your head. The cooking process cooks the flavors together, making for its own unique taste, instead of just tasting like garlicky lemonade.
Garlic Naan Flatbread (only available at PCFG Cooking Demo) – Traditional Indian flatbread with a garlic paste kneaded directly into the dough before grilling. If you’ve ever had naan, you can imagine how good this is.
The Snack Report: Pocari Sweat
One of our more popular societal tropes in the past decade or so has been the whole ‘wacky Japanese food’ thing. On one hand, it’s a matter of cultural differences since our food and its packaging are probably very alien to Asian countries, but on the other hand there is definitely lots of fun to be had with Engrish and other examples of Asian to English translation gone awry.
That’s how I ended up coming to start drinking sweat. That’s right I enjoy drinking sweat.
Ah? Ah? Get it?
Come See PCFG at the Long Island Garlic Festival!
So remember our mentioning of the Long Island Garlic Festival last Fall? Well, after teasing it a week or so ago, we’re pleased to announce that for the first time ever, both Meg A. and I will be attending that very same Long Island Garlic Festival this year! Come join us at Garden of Eve in Riverhead on September 20th! There, we’ll be selling garlic-infused popcorn and garlic-ade. Don’t judge a book by its cover (or its odor), they’re both delicious.
But wait, that’s not all! In addition to selling those yummy foods, there’s a total main event for us! Meg and I will be giving a live cooking demonstration at the festival, complete with free samples! We’ll be cooking up garlic naan bread, as well as garlic fried rice! Maybe even garlic cookies! Who the hell knows!
Admission is $3 per person, sold at the farm grounds of Garden of Eve in Riverhead, NY. The festival runs all day from 10am until 6pm and parking is free! If you live here, or will be in the New York/Long Island area, please come check it out and support us! For more information, visit http://www.gardenofevefarm.com/garlic-festival.htm
Thanks! Hope to see you all there!
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