Garlic.

[theclaud]

Our local greengrocer has new season's wet garlic in at the moment. Yumtus.

http://www.thegarlicfarm.co.uk/growing/blog/wet-green-garlic

 

[slowmotion]

A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat.
–Yiddish proverb

 

[doog]

I've got some wild Garlic in my garden. It's spreading So maybe I'll have a go at munching some

I love the smell of wild garlic....on a bike its just hits you and its that time of year...

 

[Lullabelle]

I've got some wild Garlic in my garden. It's spreading So maybe I'll have a go at munching some

I have made soup before, a basic veg soup with lots of garlic leaves but my plants were young at the time and not very pungent, hopefully now they are older they may be stronger.

 

[TVC]

There is a good Chinese wholesalers in Leicester too,

Where's that then?

 

[PK99]

Yes, no longer sell mild afaik. Just the original which is not original anymore.
Sqame goes for HP sauce, worcester sauce and quite a lot of other stuff.

Good lord, sir you are correct. Just tried some off a teaspoon. None of the eyewatering power of yesteryear.

Shame. First it was spangles then the liquorice flavour black ones in midget gems, now mustard!

 

[Andrew_P]

What is the garlic that has green centres, is that the wet garlic?

It performs its best miracles cut/crushed left for a few minutes and eaten chewed raw.

My Fave

 

[theclaud]

I love the smell of wild garlic....on a bike its just hits you and its that time of year...

It's especially pungent when you fall off into it. DAHIKT.

 

[PK99]

What is the garlic that has green centres, is that the wet garlic?

No that is last year's garlic sprouting. The interior green bit is very bitter and best removed.

Wet garlic is freshly harvested garlic before hanging to dry.

http://www.simplygarlic.co.uk/Wet Garlic.html

 

[theclaud]

What is the garlic that has green centres, is that the wet garlic?

It performs its best miracles cut/crushed left for a few minutes and eaten chewed raw.

My Fave

No that's the opposite - when it's been hanging round long enough to have sprouted. The wet stuff is the first of the season, eaten before the skins have set.

 

[theclaud]

TMN to PK99!

 

[raleighnut]

Where's that then?

Corner of the road that leads to the main entrance to LRI (don't know the street name) and Oxford St, right near the Swan and Rushes.
(used to be a typewriter and office equipment place)

EDIT A quick google tells me it is Jarrom Street.

 

[TVC]

Corner of the road that leads to the main entrance to LRI (don't know the street name) and Oxford St, right near the Swan and Rushes.
(used to be a typewriter and office equipment place)

EDIT A quick google tells me it is Jarrom Street.

That's the one we use. I used to live on Jarrom Street when I was a student

 

[raleighnut]

That's the one we use. I used to live on Jarrom Street when I was a student

Great shop, they used to be on London Road but moved there about 20-25yrs ago.
As you walk in there are often boxes of takeaway containers just on the right hand side with the brand name 'Pink Apple' on them, I used to work for the guy that made them.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Where's that then?

Under a car park