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Come Inside... => The Restaurant => Topic started by: Pirate on January 12, 2010, 08:19:30 PM

Title: Garlic & Ginger
Post by: Pirate on January 12, 2010, 08:19:30 PM

No...not a new act on x-factor or dancing on ice

In your personal opinion, when cooking, (https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-eatdrink061.gif&hash=c42ca62c0a5ae5a3a0551311b11561b4ef187e6b) (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php) should you use fresh garlic and ginger, or is it alright to use the lazy stuff straight from the jar

Title: Re: Garlic & Ginger
Post by: Miss Demeanour on January 12, 2010, 08:22:50 PM

Fresh garlic every time - ginger I'm not so fussed

Title: Re: Garlic & Ginger
Post by: Pirate on January 12, 2010, 08:28:21 PM

Yeah...I normally grate fresh garlic and ginger on my 'mediterranean' (okay yah) grater, but tonight...I am trying the easy stuff, a spoonful of each in a curry.  shrugs: Two chances

Title: Re: Garlic & Ginger
Post by: Just One More on January 12, 2010, 08:51:49 PM

Fresh every time.

The only time I used the jars was to do follow a recipe that a Malaysian friend gave me. The food was that good that I wanted to replicate exactly what she did, it worked, but the smell from the jars wasn't as nice as the fresh stuff

Title: Re: Garlic & Ginger
Post by: Barman on January 12, 2010, 09:07:33 PM

Fresh.

Title: Re: Garlic & Ginger
Post by: Bar Wench on January 12, 2010, 09:43:16 PM

The fresh stuff. I do have the stuff in tubes from the chiller cabinet for when I really can't be bothered but you can tell the difference.

Title: Re: Garlic & Ginger
Post by: Snoopy on January 13, 2010, 10:28:43 AM

Always fresh ~ well as fresh as anything ever is from a supermarket ..... which is not actually very fresh.
Like to grow me own ..... now that does taste better.

Title: Re: Garlic & Ginger
Post by: Nick on January 13, 2010, 10:43:25 AM

Where do you stand on manure?

Title: Re: Garlic & Ginger
Post by: Snoopy on January 13, 2010, 10:47:12 AM

Usually in wellingtons and to one side of the midden.  ::)

Title: Re: Garlic & Ginger
Post by: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on January 14, 2010, 10:08:45 AM

 lol:  Fresh every time I am lucky there is a market here, 10 heads of garlic ?1 peppers 1kg( all sorts)  ?1.oo  ginger fresh and wonderful herbs and spices a plenty and very low prices. cloud9: Have used jar stuff in the past but fresh is best IMHO