Peeling Garlic

As I sit here typing, my 12 cloves (give or take) of garlic are roasting in 1 cup of oil in a small sauce pan, covered in foil, in a 300 degree oven. Thus, I can say with authority that a garlic peeling tool is a highly desirable tool for preparing Garlic-Chipotle Love.

You place an unpeeled garlic clove into the rubber-like tube. Use the palm of your hand to roll the tube on your kitchen counter top, just as you would roll a lemon to release its inner juice, only don't press QUITE as hard, or you may crush the garlic clove...and the whole point of using the tube is to keep the clove whole and uncrushed. Out will pop a lovely clean clove of garlic and a MESS of peels. However, the mess is easily endured as it takes literally minutes to clean what amounts to almost the entire head of garlic for the recipe.

Because I own this tool, I haven't had to do the following, but I have heard that you can use one of those rubber tools intended to help you get a good grip on a jar to assist in opening said jar to also peel garlic. I refer to those flat, sometimes odd shaped devices that are commonly given away at trade shows or similar events. If you have one of these, and not an actual garlic peeler tool, do try to use it and report how well it works.

I am using canola oil in my first attempt at Garlic-Chipotle Love. I have been debating the purchase of a large quantity of canola oil because I have been thinking that I should make my own mayonnaise with all the egg yolks that I currently toss down the drain every morning while preparing breakfast. Canola oil mayo can be very expensive, but in my attempts to reduce soy, it is something that I prefer to buy over the more mass marketed brands. I made mayo once with olive oil and it was just too much flavor actually; It was weird to eat the flavor of the olive oil in mayo. I think I do prefer more neutral mayo.

Back to the Love recipe...

I will be able to put the food processor to work later today to finish the recipe. I will report the results tomorrow.