{"id":114,"date":"2012-07-13T00:06:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T00:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joeplumstead.com\/?p=114"},"modified":"2012-07-14T21:54:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T21:54:33","slug":"keep-the-vampires-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joeplumstead.com\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Keep the Vampires Away"},"content":{"rendered":"

I use a lot of garlic in my recipes.\u00a0 I mean, a lot of garlic.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Having owned a restaurant for 12 years and, prior to that, working as a cook for almost 28 years, I don\u2019t think that I peeled a single clove of garlic, at least not that I remember or care to remember.\u00a0 Every place at which I\u2019ve worked during the last 40 years used already-peeled fresh garlic.\u00a0 It is wonderful stuff.\u00a0 It comes in one-gallon containers.\u00a0 I used gallons a week.\u00a0 It spoiled me.<\/p>\n

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Since losing my restaurant in April of this year, it seems as if I\u2019ve divided my time between looking for a job and peeling garlic.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure which sucks more, but I\u2019m leaning towards peeling garlic as taking the \u201cSuck Award\u201d on this one.<\/p>\n

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The other day my wife, Michelle, brought home a rubber garlic peeler.\u00a0 A natural skepticism prohibited me from thinking that this thing would ever work.\u00a0 It looked like something someone had discarded: a 4-inch colorful rubber cylinder with about a 1 inch diameter, the two ends looking as if they had been snipped by pinking shears.<\/p>\n

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Amazingly, the rubber garlic peeler works!\u00a0 Put 4 or 5 cloves inside the cylinder; press it down on a flat, hard surface with your hand, roll it back and forth a few times and\u2014presto\u2014the garlic is peeled.\u00a0 And here, I\u2019m tempted to say, \u201cBut wait, there\u2019s more!\u201d: but there really isn\u2019t.\u00a0 As you’ll see in the pictures below, it’s so simple and a lot quicker than whacking the cloves with the blade of a French knife and peeling every single, sticky clove.<\/p>\n

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This yielded a little more than one cup.\u00a0 So, if you\u2019re interested in trying any of the upcoming recipes (links below), or just want to keep the vampires away, and don\u2019t have a faster way of peeling garlic, you can check out one of these rubber peelers on Amazon<\/a>.\u00a0\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

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It will save you some time.\u00a0 Time saved is tedium averted.<\/p>\n

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Try these garlic recipes:<\/p>\n

Garlic and Peppercorn Marinade<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I use a lot of garlic in my recipes.\u00a0 I mean, a lot of garlic.\u00a0 Having owned a restaurant for 12 years and, prior to that, working as a cook for almost 28 years, I don\u2019t think that I peeled a single clove of garlic, at least not that I remember or care to remember.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-garlic","category-how-to","category-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeplumstead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeplumstead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeplumstead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeplumstead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeplumstead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/joeplumstead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/joeplumstead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeplumstead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeplumstead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeplumstead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeplumstead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}