Smoosh up a coupla garlic cloves with a garlic smoosher,

[complain jane]

rip up some fresh basil and pour olive oil over all in a bowl. Let sit 20 minutes. Rip up some fresh, crusty bread and dip. Heaven.

Just thought I'd let you all know. That's what I got going on here for my late Thursday night web-surfing.

[Wapsie B]

1. That does sound good. n/t

[lazarus]

2. dear lord, no!

You use a garlic press? that's just criminal!

Smash the cloves with the flat of your chef's knife, or do what I do, and use your marble mortar. One hit, and smoosh, and you don't lose a bunch of garlic in the press.

Garlic presses are an abomination.

[qnr]

3. Where the heck did you get it? I've been looking for a mortar

and pestle for ages.

[lazarus]

5. anywhere!

Bed, Bath & Beyond has them. Virtually any good kitchen supply store should carry them.

I've got a small one, and big molcajeta I use for making salsa or guacamole that I picked up in Tijuana. I've got my eyes on a beautiful Thai mortar & pestle that's just like the one Jamie Oliver uses.

I haven't fired up my food processor in months.

[qnr]

6. ok, not where I've been recently. I never got around to checking

online though.

[lazarus]

9. here's a great site

http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/mortarpestle.htm

Good pic of the molcajeta I have, too.

[complain jane]

11. Marble mortar? Sounds like a good idea,

maybe a belated Christmas present for myself...

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. I'm with Lazarus. Garlic smooshers are for lazy ass useless morons

After the first time I used one of those pieces of shit I threw it away. It was so fake, so unneeded, so embarassingly yuppie.

Mince it yourself, or stay out of the kitchen altogether. That's my conviction.

Not only are they shitty in terms of ruining the garlic and making you look like a lazy ass idiot who's afraid of the kitchen, they waste a lot of garlic and they're goddamned impossible to clean.

[jpgray]

7. I use the back of a wooden spoon for garlic

Just one whack, peel it, and then you're ready to go.

[goodbody]

8. Enjoy your evening snack, dogfish

it does sound wonderful. In a lot of fine restaurants, you'll have that as an appetizer or as a way of serving bread. Garlic/herb/olive oil dips with fresh bread! Yum!

And I like the garlic smooshers quite a bit. I find they distribute more taste of the garlic with very little effort and without the garlic getting on your hands. I've tried other ways, but the smooshers have always been my first choice.

[complain jane]

12. Thanks.

That beats gettin' yelled at.

:hi:

[Historic NY]

10. could do that then put it in the toaster oven...........yum