"John J" > wrote in message
...
> On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 01:30:19 -0800, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>Sorry Martha but banging the head of garlic around in two metal bowls
>>simply
>>did not work. It did create an extreme amount of racket leading someone
>>to
>>scream a lot and say that he was not eating it. It did however at least
>>take off the majority of the papery stuff and partially separate the
>>cloves.
>>Perhaps had I kept at it, it would have worked but it was beginning to
>>tire
>>me out.
>>
>>What worked like a dream though was the garlic peeler. It's like a
>>flexible
>>sleeve. Just put the cloves in one at a time and rub. Peel comes right
>>off. So total time for all 3 cloves was perhaps 10 minutes, if that.
>>Would
>>have taken me a lot longer to do this by hand.
>
> 3 cloves or 3 heads?

Oh crap! I mixed them up again. I did three HEADS! The pasta recipe calls
for two heads. The soup calls for three cloves. I kept thinking in my mind
that I must remove 3 cloves. I think I will just put all of the other
garlic in with the pasta. Although the garlic looked perfectly fine on the
outside there was one mushy clove and some were very tiny. There was a
whole lot of papery stuff in there in relation to the amount of garlic. I
should probably just stop buying produce at that store. *sigh*