Wild Garlic

[tiggerblue10]

Just watching James Martin and he's using this instead of cloves.

Is wild garlic available in shops? I've never seen it.

[lady-janine]

It's a weed and a bit of a pest as it grows all over the place. Tastes very different from bought garlic and you can use the bulbs as well. I use all of it in an attempt to eradicate a bit.

[Atheist]

I remember wild garlic from my schooldays when we did cross-country and there was a certain spot where the path led down through the woods and over a stream and the smell was powerful. Another childhood smell was that emanating from sacks in the shop in Poolstock which sold petfood and all sorts of earthy stuff, and which I later realised was Mehti (I've forgotten the English word!)

[Mamyalynne]

Fenugreek?

[Atheist]

Yes, Mamy. Thank you.

[Atheist]

They sold rock salt, too.

[DTCwordfan]

No in the hedgerows and its delish - plenty here and we had acres at the Mater's house - just treat it like young spinach......can use the flowers too.

[lady-janine]

If cows eat it it usually taints the milk a little but you only notice if you drink the milk straight from the cooler.

[pastafreak]

Atheist...according to Wikipedia..."Black garlic can be eaten alone, on bread, or used in soups, sauces, crushed into a mayonnaise or simply tossed into a vegetable dish. A vinaigrette can be made with black garlic, sherry vinegar, soy, a neutral oil, and Dijon mustard. Its softness increases with water content."
I know I've never seen any recipes that say it needs boiling.
I'd like to try it...just put off by the price.

[Vagus]

I think we all understood that Tigger meant cloves of garlic, not cloves as in the spice :/
In today’s cookery programmes on tv both The Hairy Bikers and James Thingy used garlic, interestingly.

[237SJ]

I`d love to get my hands on some. I remember trying a wild garlic mustard at Borough Market and it was really nice.

[Vagus]

I once bought a jar of pickled garlic somewhere in the Lake District, it was delicious but lethal.

[Atheist]

13:45 Alava...
I think I was thrown by this post, which seemed to suggest that cloves (of garlic) keep for ages whereas wild garlic doesn't. I don't find that ordinary garlic keeps longer than a week or two. I thought Alav was thinking of the other sort of cloves.

[Atheist]

I just googled black garlic and found that it is ordinary garlic which has been specially treated - what I found was a recommendation to put it in a slow cooker on low setting for a few weeks.
Not the sort of stuff that I would bother with, to be honest