Comments on: Herb-stuffed roast lamb with garlic confit http://lowgicooking.com/roast-lamb-shoulder-vegetables-butter-beans/ Recipes for healthy, slower-carb eating. Eat till you're full, feel satisfied and lose weight at the same time! Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:50:04 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: libbywarne http://lowgicooking.com/roast-lamb-shoulder-vegetables-butter-beans/comment-page-1/#comment-7 libbywarne Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:02:45 +0000 http://lowgicooking.com/?p=81#comment-7 Yes, though the Australian Garlic Farms "growing garlic" sold ready for planting with sprouting shoots is a fantastic innovation. I can't wait till February next year when we can harvest the 100 or so cloves we have planted which by then will have multiplied into full garlic bulbs! Yes, though the Australian Garlic Farms "growing garlic" sold ready for planting with sprouting shoots is a fantastic innovation. I can't wait till February next year when we can harvest the 100 or so cloves we have planted which by then will have multiplied into full garlic bulbs!

]]> By: danwarne http://lowgicooking.com/roast-lamb-shoulder-vegetables-butter-beans/comment-page-1/#comment-2 danwarne Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:42:46 +0000 http://lowgicooking.com/?p=81#comment-2 I definitely concur about how good locally grown garlic is. I had been becoming suspicious of Chinese-grown garlic for some time because of its 'pearly white bleached' look, which can't be natural, and the fact that it has very little taste. You can use six cloves of Chinese garlic in a dish and still only get a faint garlic flavour. Not to mention the worry about chemical pollution in Chinese-grown foodstuffs. I've been to Shanghai and Beijing and in both places, breathing the air was like inhaling liquid sandpaper. What I've been amazed at since buying some locally grown garlic is that (a) it is very tasty and has a really 'garlicy' aroma, which goes to show that the good stuff is still available and (b) there are MANY different varieties of garlic available. From mild varieties that are close relatives of leeks to strong, fiery/bitey varieties that will give you a nip in the mouth as you eat them, and have an extremely strong flavour. The ones Libs and I ordered most recently are giant russian garlic bulbs (still grown in Australia) and the cloves are giant-sized, so you can roast them and eat them with a knife and fork. Yum!!! We've ordered from australiangarlicfarms.com and melodycreekorganics.com. Australian garlic farms has a wide range of garlic types available, but they took quite a while to process the order, which was a bit annoying, whereas melodycreekorganics.com shipped next day after I placed the order online. I definitely concur about how good locally grown garlic is. I had been becoming suspicious of Chinese-grown garlic for some time because of its 'pearly white bleached' look, which can't be natural, and the fact that it has very little taste.

You can use six cloves of Chinese garlic in a dish and still only get a faint garlic flavour. Not to mention the worry about chemical pollution in Chinese-grown foodstuffs. I've been to Shanghai and Beijing and in both places, breathing the air was like inhaling liquid sandpaper.

What I've been amazed at since buying some locally grown garlic is that (a) it is very tasty and has a really 'garlicy' aroma, which goes to show that the good stuff is still available and (b) there are MANY different varieties of garlic available. From mild varieties that are close relatives of leeks to strong, fiery/bitey varieties that will give you a nip in the mouth as you eat them, and have an extremely strong flavour.

The ones Libs and I ordered most recently are giant russian garlic bulbs (still grown in Australia) and the cloves are giant-sized, so you can roast them and eat them with a knife and fork. Yum!!!

We've ordered from australiangarlicfarms.com and melodycreekorganics.com. Australian garlic farms has a wide range of garlic types available, but they took quite a while to process the order, which was a bit annoying, whereas melodycreekorganics.com shipped next day after I placed the order online.

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