Hello, Garlic Fest took over several blocks of downtown Easton, Pennsylvania earlier this month featuring over one hundred vendors hawking everything from garlic-flavored ice cream to garlic-infused beer.
Those pickles have me salivating, and yet I have no green tomatoes. <sigh>
I’ve been excavating my way through a half-century of family recipes and essays on cooking and recently dug up an old favorite from my moms recipe card file -- the mustard pickles she made and stored down cellar every fall.
I grew up near Gilroy, CA, where there is a famous (at least regionally) garlic festival every year with things like garlic ice cream. I had no idea there was another town that did this! What a fun read.
I love your tip for using plasticine to make monoprints from antique plates. Planting garlic sounds like a labor of love and a nice way to have something to look forward to. Did you sample any of the garlic foods at the festival?
The prints are very fun! We did not sample anything from the street vendors. The day was a bit raw and rainy, we wound up having lunch at the Easton Public Market, a new-ish venue with local (I think) purveyors selling everything from tacos to handmade chocolates.
Such a fun post, Vicki! I want to do everything you did, including making something with green tomatoes, trying to plant some garlic, making pumpkin and blackberry pancakes and attempting to make prints from cut glass. I probably won’t do any of it, but you made me smile, dream and salivate!🎃🥞🍅
A lot of the farmers who attended our market planted Music. It’s good, but I like the German Red better. The red garlics are stronger in cooking.
We plant about now. We’re in SE Ohio. I cover them/the bed with straw. If we get a warm autumn you may see them start to sprout, that’s what the straw is for to protect the young shoots. Read up on cutting the scapes in the spring, good treat with morels if you hunt them. But cutting the scapes keeps the end product from getting bitter.
Just covered mine with straw as we are expecting a frost. Wish that I did hunt for morels, but am ignorant on the subject. I enjoy any type of foraging!
Those pickles have me salivating, and yet I have no green tomatoes. <sigh>
I’ve been excavating my way through a half-century of family recipes and essays on cooking and recently dug up an old favorite from my moms recipe card file -- the mustard pickles she made and stored down cellar every fall.
More on that later. And thanks for the shout out!
How wonderful to have old family recipes. I wish that I had more than I do. Mustard pickles sound interesting!
Garlic 🧄 ❤️! Thanks for this Vicki and also for sharing the process of imprinting on beautiful cut glass pieces.
Thanks Jolene! A new use for the family heirlooms.
I grew up near Gilroy, CA, where there is a famous (at least regionally) garlic festival every year with things like garlic ice cream. I had no idea there was another town that did this! What a fun read.
Thank you Sam!
I love your tip for using plasticine to make monoprints from antique plates. Planting garlic sounds like a labor of love and a nice way to have something to look forward to. Did you sample any of the garlic foods at the festival?
The prints are very fun! We did not sample anything from the street vendors. The day was a bit raw and rainy, we wound up having lunch at the Easton Public Market, a new-ish venue with local (I think) purveyors selling everything from tacos to handmade chocolates.
Such a fun post, Vicki! I want to do everything you did, including making something with green tomatoes, trying to plant some garlic, making pumpkin and blackberry pancakes and attempting to make prints from cut glass. I probably won’t do any of it, but you made me smile, dream and salivate!🎃🥞🍅
Thank you Ruth! Your comment made me smile!
German red and Music are varieties of garlic we’ve grown. Hard neck garlics and great for colder climates.
I’ve never pickled green tomatoes. Sounds good!
I have not heard of Music. What time of year do you plant?
A lot of the farmers who attended our market planted Music. It’s good, but I like the German Red better. The red garlics are stronger in cooking.
We plant about now. We’re in SE Ohio. I cover them/the bed with straw. If we get a warm autumn you may see them start to sprout, that’s what the straw is for to protect the young shoots. Read up on cutting the scapes in the spring, good treat with morels if you hunt them. But cutting the scapes keeps the end product from getting bitter.
Just covered mine with straw as we are expecting a frost. Wish that I did hunt for morels, but am ignorant on the subject. I enjoy any type of foraging!
I'll be planting garlic for the first time soon, in California, thanks to you!
We'll have to compare notes!