Category: Spices

I don’t know about you, but I love to use garlic cloves in a whole lot of my recipes. And I do not want to find that I do not have any in my house, when I am creating a recipe or making an old tried and true recipe from many years before.

This will be a little tip for always having garlic cloves on hand. I have been doing this for many years now. Just buy yourself a big bag of garlic and start breaking the garlic bulbs into single cloves. One bulb of garlic, makes many cloves.

Store this in a good freezer bag like glad or ziplock as they are heavy duty and will not let the garlic scent escape into everything in your freezer. When you need some, just get out the amount that you need and cut off the root end. Slice in half and peel the garlic paper shell off or use a large heavy knife and smash each one. They will peel easy. Just mince up tiny and use in your recipe.

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This is an old time method, comes from way back in the older days of food preserving. When people stored food they would just drop a handful of bay leaves onto the top of the food in the container that they used for their food, that they needed to keep.

I used just take a walk in the woods and pick my own bay leaves, straight from the trees. You could find the trees around good little fishing holes (or a bay). The impassible bay on 441 North in North Florida, and on the way into Georgia, had such a sweet spot to fish in and while there I would gather me some bay leaves. I sure wish I had a photo. Just as you were about to drive over a wooden bridge, it was on your left side of the dirt road.

Or heck, just walk out into the yard and into the woods line, when I lived out in the country, which I had always spent my time, living in until now. City life is different. There are no long trails of thorny black-berry bushes to be picked. And to make the first blackberry cobbler of the year with.Also there is not a beautiful fig tree to pick from and enjoy the rich sweetness and awesome flavor.

Now I am reminiscing about the good old days! Let me get back to the bay leaves. You can find these in the spice isle in the grocery store. Just look for bay leaves on the package. I use these in my buckets of sugar-potatoes and rice, along with an absorber that I have titled, make your own absorber on this blog of mine.

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