Hello fellow Far Side fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side
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“Well, this may not be wise on a first date, but I just gotta try your garlic wharf rats.”
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First time I met my partner they offered me some of their ghost pepper garlic wings.
Garlic is delicious. Eat it. Someone good for you will be eating it with you.
Have you had toum? It's so good, and easy to make at home once you figure it out. But figuring it out wasted a lot of good garlic 😑
Soooo good though. Put it on everything. Have to restrain myself or else it upsets my guts.
I’ve never even heard of it. Do you have a link to a recipe that you’d recommend?
I don’t mind “wasting” garlic. I grow it, and it’s cake to plant more :)
Dead simple, you can Google different recipes to get the right proportions of ingredients.
If I remember correctly, last time we made it we did it roughly this way:
1 cup peeled cloves, raw 1/4 tbsp salt 1.5 cups vegetable oil (not olive, has to be neutral flavor) 1/4 c lemon juice
It all needs to be blended together. Different recipes will tell you different ways of doing this. Add them together in small amounts, drizzle the oil in slowly, etc etc. Bah. It's never worked for us.
If you use a blender, you'll fail. If you add things at different times, you'll fail. Or at least we failed.
The trick is to use an immersion blender, and use the special blending cup they give you, which has the diameter of the bottom of the cup matching the diameter of the head of the wand. So it's real close to the edges down there.
Then add everything to the cup at once, the garlic, salt, oil, and lemon juice.
With the blender off, push the head all the way to the bottom, so it's sitting in the garlic. Turn on the blender and push down gently until you're sitting on the bottom. Don't lift it! Some garlic will make it above the blender, that's ok, just try to get most of it on that first push down.
Then, SLOWLY, and I mean dang SLOWLY, lift the head blender up. Just barely creeping up, painfully slow. Let the blender work. What this is doing is slowly incorporating the oil into the garlic and whipping it up. Keep slowly raising until you get near the top and stuff starts trying to get messy.
It should be somewhat thick ish on the bottom where you just were. Then you can go to town, start and stop, lift and set the blender up and down, do what you need to do to blend the rest of everything into the thick stuff at the bottom and blend up any large chunks that survived. Blend until everything is a thick smooth consistency, like soft whipped butter maybe. Like hummus almost, but much more spicy.
Then, enjoy!
Best served with chicken shawarma, and some warm pita bread.
The recipe makes a lot, so if you like it, be prepared to share it with friends. Lasts a couple weeks in the fridge.
...true love sees past garlic...