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Garlic Soup

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Husband found a soup recipe the other day that called for 40 cloves of garlic. We had just been to Costco where he had purchased a bag of garlic bulbs, so he felt well equipped to make the soup.

The recipe only made 1.5 quarts of soup. It was a creamy style soup with chicken broth and pureed potatoes. The garlic cloves were sautéed and the pureed, too. We also added some white beans. It was really good and wasn’t all that garlicky.

I suppose some people might find that many garlic cloves in one dish kind of off-putting. Just for fun I looked up weird foods on the internet, and my, were there some doozies. Chocolate covered bacon caught my eye, as did fried caterpillars with guacamole. The recipes for these dishes were included, and people had actually made them and liked them. I don’t think we’ll be making either of those in the near future, though.

What is the oddest food you ever ate or prepared? Come up with some interesting food ideas.

37 thoughts on “Garlic Soup”

    1. Which category do these culinary exploits fall into? Weird foods you have prepared or eaten, or your ideas for weird delicacies? I hope the latter.

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      1. The former. They have been prepared for me. I only consumed them.
        I had anticipated, PJ, that you might have had notable culinary experiences.

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  2. Weirdest thing I’ve ever eaten is natto maki. If durian is the vegan equivalent of Icelandic rotted shark, natto is the vegan’s lutefisk. I know people online who eat natto for the health benefits, like kombucha (which I also despise; why would I want to drink sweetened diluted vinegar?). I would have to be miserably ill to think daily servings of natto were the better alternative.

    –Crow Girl

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    2. Durian is my answer to the weirdest food. The taste isn’t as bad as you expect but you have to take your bite, chew quickly and swallow fast, all the while holding your breath, because the smell will keep you from putting it in your mouth. Hard to imagine the first person who decided this was something edible.

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    1. I am with you about this. In Norway they will not eat it or offer it on a menu! I can understand why they used it on a ship but none forme now.

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  4. I’ve eaten many different wild mushrooms, including morels, puffballs, and chicken-of-the-woods. I also have a vague memory of harvesting a shaggy mane mushroom too, but I don’t remember if we ate it or not. I found amanita muscaria up in Voyageurs’ National Park once. I did NOT eat that.

    I tried a raw oyster and a variety of mussels in Ireland last year. Something on that platter made me sick for an entire week, but I’m not sure what it was.

    I guess I’m not really all that adventurous about eating.

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    1. I remember that you were very sick following the Ireland trip. There is not much worse than being that sick while traveling when the comforts of home are the only thing that you want.

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  5. Rise and Shine, Baboons,

    I am coming up with blanks on this. I tried Haggis in Scotland. I did not care for the texture. I don’t try to prepare many odd foods because I don’t like to waste food. Sometime I just don’t care for weird stuff.

    Food ideas? I will have to mull this today. Right now I am in the early Spring food slump because I am tired of everything yet I want to try nothing new. This happens every year.

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  6. I have mentioned this before, but I am a picky, nonadventurous eater so there are a lot of “scary” foods I will not even try. But in Zimbabwe I did eat warthog and found it to be similar in taste to a good pork roast. The Impala sausage was too icky for more than one bite. In Scotland I did try a little bit of haggis. Like Bill, I found it to be sort of like meatloaf. The spices made it palatable.

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  9. I’m in “the more garlic, the better” camp. I bet that I’d find that soup delicious.

    I once made brownies with roasted garlic in them. They were OK, you could definitely taste the garlic, but I wouldn’t make them again.

    As you all know, I’m a weird food aficionado, and have eaten some pretty weird stuff. Some of it I would eat again, some of it not, if I had a choice. But escargot, raw oysters, blood sausage, pickled herring, and frog legs are all things I’d eat again in a heartbeat.

    For the record, I don’t consider wild mushroom weird food.
    Happy birthday, Krista. Hope you’re packing a little extra something into your special day.

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  13. I’m not a very adventurous eater. I always felt that I became a vegetarian just in time. Six months after I decided no more meat/fish/chicken, my French foreign exchange brother decided to make a gourmet French meal. I was able to beg off on the escargot and the salisbury steak (although my sister did say it was pretty much like hamburger).

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  14. My friend Jeanne makes a hummus recipe that uses a boatload of garlic. It’s wonderful but I’m sure glad I’m single because sleeping next to me after I eat it would be deadly to anyone! I’ve made it a couple of times but it’s too garlicky for YA, so I usually only get it at Jeanne’s house these days.

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  15. I just had a memory that made smile.

    Some years back, I used to be quite active on Freecycle. A man in St. Paul offered a package each of frozen beef liver, beef tongue, beef heart, pig heart, pork trotters, and pork liver. I was the only respondent, so they were mine.

    When I picked up my first batch of frozen meat from him, he asked what I did with the meat. I told him that I made several old Danish recipes, and offered to bring him some samples. He politely declined. But, unbeknownst to me, he saved my email address, and when he bought his next half cow or pig, he emailed me and asked if I was interested. I was delighted, and impressed that he remembered my email address. Turns out he had me filed under “Weird meat lady.”

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