Tag: garlic

Garlic Scapes: How to Cook With These Short-Lived Seasonal Treasures

In late spring, an enchanting botanical curiosity captures the attention of experienced gardeners and enthusiastic cooks alike. Slender green stalks emerge from the garlic bed, rocketing toward the sky in serpentine curls before forming a wedge-shaped, tapered bud. Known as a scape, it’s the bud of the hard-neck garlic plant, and its season lasts only…


Australian Garlic Can Eliminate 99.9 Percent of COVID-19, Flu Cells: Scientists

Scientists in a “world first” study now say Australian garlic could be key to fighting COVID-19 infections and the flu. In a study by the Melbourne-based Peter Doherty Institute, researchers extracted a specific ingredient, the Proprietary Ingredient SupaG, from Australian-grown garlic varieties. “The results came as a world first, with the findings from specific garlic…


Garlic, the ‘King of Cancer Prevention’

Known as the “Cancer-Fighting King,” Garlic has long been regarded as a miraculous healing herb. The National Cancer Institute in the United States ranks garlic at the top of the cancer-fighting vegetable pyramid. Epidemiological studies have shown that garlic has anti-tumor properties, reduces the risk of cardiovascular diseases and Alzheimer’s disease, and even helps eliminate heavy…


This Soup Recipe Uses a Whopping 17 Cloves of Garlic, for Good Reason

There are three qualities you want in a weeknight meal: quick, simple, and delicious. Lucky for you, this creamy soup recipe, developed for our “Five-Ingredient Dinners” cookbook, gives you all three. The secret ingredient here is really no secret, as test cook Carmen Dongo used a whopping 17 cloves of garlic! However, cooking the garlic three…


Harnessing the Multitudes of Garlic

I still have a lot of garlic from last year’s harvest. So to make sure I get through it all before the new crop comes in, I have increased my consumption. Thanks to this project I’ve been cooking garlic as if it’s a vegetable, rather than a spice. And given that garlic is plant material,…


Turmeric, Horsetail, and Garlic: Can They Reverse Aluminum Toxicity?

In a recent Epoch Health article, “Ask a Doctor: How Can I Detox From Aluminum Exposure?”, we discussed aluminum exposure and its effects on the body. We noted that aluminum is the most widespread metal on earth. As it binds easily with many other substances, aluminum isn’t naturally available as a pure element. Once humans developed…


Whip Up Lebanese Toum With Homegrown Garlic

The recipe for toum contains only garlic, salt, lemon juice, and olive oil. It’s as thick and creamy as mayonnaise and improves everything it touches. But before it’s time for toum, we have to discuss the task at hand: It’s time to plant the garlic. Select Your Garlic Autumn isn’t the usual time for planting,…


Grass, Garlic, and Amaryllis

Q: We are discussing when to cut down our ornamental grasses. I want to see them last through the winter and let the birds eat any seeds. My husband wants to cut them down in the fall because he says it is easier then. The plants are still upright and not beaten down. We can…


How to Make Garlic Bread

After you have cooked your pasta perfectly, avoiding all the common pitfalls, you will need a stellar side dish to serve alongside it. This onion garlic bread recipe could be your new go-to. Flavored with butter, garlic powder, onion powder and parsley flakes, these Italian bread slices are packed with flavor. They’re also easy and time-efficient, simpler than what…


6 Types of ‘Hypoglycemic Medications’ in the Kitchen

When people cook meals, they often add various spices to enrich the colors and flavors of the dishes. Some of these spices have a positive effect on our body’s health, and among them, there are many that can control blood sugar, just like “hypoglycemic medications” in the spice rack. According to Liang Jiawei, nutritionist and…