gah I messed up my ocado order and have 10 bulbs of garlic

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to be fair to me, they were rather naughty on their recipe / buy ingredients option - recipe requires 2 cloves of garlic, so the automatic addition is a whole string! But I should have checked so am a numpty.

How long will garlic keep for?
Does it matter if it sprouts?

Anyone got any good garlic recipes? . I tried garlic soup once. Once was enough!

fling it to me - i ave a cold and garlic will clear it up

Chop it roughly, parboil in white vinegar and a sprinkle of salt for 1.5 minutes, and seal in sterile jars.

chicken with 30 cloves of garlic [http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/main-ingredient/poultry-and-game/chicken/chicken-baked-with-30-c loves-of-garlic.html]

Roast it. Yum.

chicken with 30 cloves of garlic www.deliaonline.com/recipes/main-ingredient/poultry-and-game/chicken/chicken-baked-with-30-cloves-of -garlic.html

Don't freeze it - it goes bitter

Chicken with 40 cloves of garlic is delish and strangely not that garlicky

Recipe here will use up 4 bulbs

Plant some?

xposts lonicera plus 10 cloves

A friend of mine did this with yoghurt and ended up with about 100 Petit Filous. She was trying to palm them off on everyone

you could make some garlic oil according to nigella.

disclaimer - never tried it.

Crush it, gently soften in olive oil, then freeze teaspoons in ice cube trays topped up with a little extra oil

wow lots of ideas, thank you.

no-one for garlic soup then?

Oh yes, definitely freeze in Ice cube trays.

oh and now I find they have sent me caper paste not capers (how much more troubles of a poor Ocado shopper can this get?!)

What to do with caper paste?!

If you make salsa verde it won't matter that it is paste already...

I too have issues with quantities. Ocado a bit easier as it doesn't sell food by weight but I once ended up with 25 bananas from Tesco.

Conversely I ended up with one banana when I wanted a hand of them once! I go to the green grocers for fruit and veg now - it's safer!

That Ottalenghi fella who sometimes is in the guardian has a roast garlic tart that is delish. Bit of a faff but worth it imo. Sorry i'm on phone so can't link.

We often bulk buy, give it a quick blitz and stick in a jar in some sunflower oil. Keeps in fridge for couple of weeks. Also we pop a bulb or two in the oven when it's on for something else then keep in the fridge to mash in to jacket spuds, or stir into pasta with oil chilli and herbs. Yum. Have been thinking about sort of potting them, ie pouring butter over the roasted cloves and popping in fridge for later. I imagin it would be all nice and soft and could be spread on toast...mmm.

This makes me sound like i'm preparing for a siege.

thanks MFM - keep meaning to buy the Ottolenghi book so now have excuse to do so. Love that place!

will get roasting, chopping, freezing etc tomorrow ...