Weekend Plans Post: Garlic (Specifically Toom)

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  1. Michael Cain
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    As little as possible. I broke two ribs last Sunday.Report

  2. Fish
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    I have to work a full day today so this weekend is going to feel short. As such, I have no concrete plans for anything. Ugh.Report

  3. Slade the Leveller
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    Quarterfinal FB game and charity trivia tomorrow. Tonight, blissfully, nada. Sunday, church and lunch with my daughter, which is one of the highlights of my week.Report

  4. J_A
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    This Toom thing looks suspiciously like Allioli or Aioli (*) sauce, which you can do with or without citric, and with or without eggs (I prefer with eggs and without lemon), and which is the both the most delicious and simplest thing to do at home.

    I suggest you try your own. Better quality ingredients, and you can vary the seasoning to your taste.

    (*) Spelling varies by country.Report

    • Jaybird in reply to J_A
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      We’ve done the aioli thing before with black garlic. This was different than the aiolis we’ve made. Or, maybe, we never decided to scream “MORE! MORE! MORE!” at each other while we made it.

      This stuff isn’t a friendly hug of garlic. It’s an Undertaker’s Last Ride of garlic.Report

      • Marchmaine in reply to Jaybird
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        I’d throw a little Tahini in it… ride that garlic bomb all the way to the ground – now with 30% more umami!Report

      • J_A in reply to Jaybird
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        I have yet to try black garlic, but if I understood your black garlic experience correctly, it felt like it’s less garlicky that regular garlic.

        Also, if I understood your story correctly, you didn’t make alioli from scratch, you mixed the garlic in the posh store bought mayonnaise, which, no matter how posh the bottle, tastes very different to home made mayo (probably the flavor of stabilizers). I would use some bottled mayo (Hellman) for hotdogs, but just a smidge. More, it tastes of chemistry sets to me.

        But freshly made mayonnaise, with or without garlic, is something totally different. Thats what I use if I’m cooking something nice, like a roast, or to elevate a side of vegetables.

        That’s why Belgians, who invented the French fries, dip them in (fresh) mayonnaise, and not in ketchup (another foul invention). Come on, you can(I can) eat fresh mayonnaise on its one, with a spoon. It’s yummy.Report

  5. fillyjonk
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    And once again I realize how I live in the Back of Beyond, I’ve never even HEARD of Toom before this, let alone seeing it anywhere for sale.

    Today is a trip out because I need to be out. It’s been a brutal 10 days and not even because we’re back in the “chaos” portion of the news cycle, but because I’ve been absolutely crushed with work. I also have to try to find a specific item which I may or may not find for my niece’s Christmas present. But I’m also going out shopping for ME because I need to be out of the house and away from workReport

    • Jaybird in reply to fillyjonk
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      Dude, a week ago, *I* had never heard of it. I only discovered it because they put some on some chicken at the Costco and called out to me.

      This wasn’t something that I had been keeping in my back pocket for a rainy day. As soon as I found out about it, I told you guys about it.Report

  6. Marchmaine
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    Got back from our Cruise vacation and almost immediately had to go to NYC for business meeting; got to see a Ranger’s game in MSG as a ‘team building’ exercise though.

    I’m way behind on Hunting this season and should be going out today… but after the travel I feel kinda drained… so might just veg in front of College Football games and the ‘puter.

    Fun fact about the cruise… Hurricane Rafael formed in the western Caribbean (our destination) and the Greek Captain simply sailed us right across it’s path north of Cuba when it was hitting the Caymans; then we sailed behind it one day later and stopped at the Caymans. Calm seas and no rain (other than the usual SUNSHINE RAIN ANGRY RAIN SUNSHINE you get in those parts)… Caymans were fine – it was just a little hurricane. Lady Marchmaine got to swim with the Turtles on Grand Cayman which was a highlight for her and had been a minor source of anxiety watching the Hurricane reports leading up to and during the Cruise.Report

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