Comments on: Pollito, or, Chicken Little

By: Saratica

Saratica — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 11:36:23 +0000

Thank you, Dan!

By: SaltShaker » Blog Archive » How Green was My Garlic?

SaltShaker » Blog Archive » How Green was My Garlic? — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:55:21 +0000

[…] New York – It’s the time here for the early versions of many vegetables. Those of you who were paying attention, or even reading my blog, last week, know I was a bit enamored of a large bunch of green garlic that I picked up at the Greenmarket. By this week, the green garlic was gone, the bulbs have grown too large and are no longer tender and sweet, the grassy, chive-like stems have started to yellow, and there was just no green garlic to be found. […]

By: dan

dan — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:32:32 +0000

Sara – you can generally only find green garlic right at the start of the growing season – same time of year as for other “young” or “baby” vegetables, etc. It might be a matter of making friends with someone at a local farm/farmer’s market who raises garlic and asking them to pull some up early for you. The dish will work though with clove garlic. Add some chopped chives or green onion to it in place of the stems.

At home most of my pans, and certainly for something like this, are big cast iron saute/fry pans, I prefer to work with them. I also have a set of T-Fal Ingenio non-stick pans that I use for more of the stovetop stuff. In this case, I’m staying with a friend in New York, I used a big, deep non-stick skillet he had hanging from a hook in the kitchen – doesn’t have a brand name on it that I can see, probably wore off over the years.

By: kalyn

kalyn — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 02:25:49 +0000

This sounds great. I was curious about green garlic and then I saw it for the first time at the Farmers Market in Salt Lake just this weekend.

By: Saratica

Saratica — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:29:13 +0000

Ok, I’m going to cook this. It sounds great – and I think I can manage this dish! What kind of pan so you use? My husband is the chef and we haven’t found any great cookware here… but I have friends coming from the states and they can bring me one…. maybe I can order online if you have a good site? He’d love that and he does all the cooking.

I don’t know if I can get that kind of garlic in CR, but I’ll look around. If not, I’ll use whole cloves.

I LOVED the Union Square market when I lived in NYC. Warms the cockles of my heart to hear your stories of the city…. ‘ta luego.