Lovin’ That Elephant Garlic
Written on April 14, 2008 – 8:20 am | by jaygaulardcom |
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Last night, I made some more Collard Greens. Since I was out of garlic, I decided to pick up some of my favorite garlic from the supermarket…elephant garlic.
According to the Wikipedia page, elephant garlic isn’t really a garlic at all. It’s “actually a variant of the species to which the garden leek belongs.” I will tell you this, I do love it. It has a much more mellow flavor than regular garlic and it is so much easier to work with. It is more expensive and less potent, but the flavor is great.
As I was cooking the Collard Greens, I tasted them and told Laura that they weren’t that great this time. She told me about her friend that uses sugar while cooking hers. Oh yeah, I forgot the honey. Here is what I use to make my Collard Greens:
- Olive oil
- Garlic
- White onion
- Mushrooms
- Collard greens
- Spices
- Honey
Use you imagination if you want to make this stuff. For the spices, I use a cracked pepper/sea salt mixture.
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Tags: collard greens, cracked pepper, elephant, elephant garlic, honey, imagination, leek, mellow flavor, mushrooms, olive oil, onion, salt mixture, sea salt, spices, supermarket, wikipedia
One Response to “Lovin’ That Elephant Garlic”
By Hannigan on Apr 14, 2008 | Reply
Very interesting, I have always wanted to know how collard greens were, never even seen them before. I like vegetables a lot, enough to turn away from my chicken (and I HATE red meat).
Do you have any good recipes for something with spinach? I have made a salad out of it and cooked it up with garlic and oil which was all good, just curious if there was something else out there neat and exciting that was easy to do. Too lazy to Google it, figured I’d bug the vegetarian.