I told you that I’d explain the bowlful of garlic from my earlier photo, right? So here it is. This is a nifty little trick I learned from someone on a message board somewhere. See, the thing is I love garlic. I put garlic in just about everything, but I hate chopping and dicing garlic. It’s a fiddly sort of thing to do. Even more, though, I hate grocery store pre-chopped garlic. I just doesn’t have the same flavor. So once a month or so I buy about 6 heads of garlic, peel the cloves, toss them into my Cuisinart Mini Prep and pulse them quickly. Then the whole shebang goes into the freezer and I have instant diced garlic.

I also love this little thing for peeling the cloves:

Then pop into the Cuisinart and pulse about 8-10 times.

Then into a freezer bag and store in the freezer.