I Must Be Crazy!

Ice Cream for Thought

A wonderful family I have been lucky enough to know, owns an organic farm. This family is devoted, talented, strong, and soo good at what they do.  I have been lucky enough to spend some time with these wonderful people, learn some life lessons from their hospitality, and I have the freshest!!!!! healthiest!!!! Yummiest!!!! ingredients for my cooking.  I AM BLESSED! =] So, this past week I was invited to assist in garlic cracking, and planting! Don't let anyone fool you! This is NOT easy work! Everything is done by hand and with love. I learned the correct way to crack up garlic bulbs so as not to damage each clove and to not split the germ. I learned all the little things that make for the best and most productive harvest.  Did you know one clove yeilds a whole bulb of garlic? Nature is amazing! Did you know if you plant a clove upside down it will turn itself around so that it is facing right side up while its still in the soil? So of course this amazing farm plants each individual clove one at a time, by hand. BECAUSE the time it takes for that clove to rotate itself, increases the time it needs to grow big and full. And because these amazing farmers want you to have the BEST garlic they can produce, they want to make sure its done right from the moment it goes into that soil!!! WONDERFUL!

So this has sparked an interest in me,

GARLIC ICE CREAM

I've been playng with the idea for months, it start with a silly question.

How come when you chop garlic its sticky?

Must be the glucose in it.

Then I noticed the sweet properties garlic has when cooked properly. So, why not garlic ice cream?

Thats right this will be a recipe I take on soon enough.

And why not use the garlic grown with love?

Details to follow

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