Recipe #8: Thirty Clove Garlic Soup

Annnnnnnd we're back. There was a couple weeks hiatus with no blog posts as both Ms. Boyardee's and I's computer went on the fritz....probably TOO many views in this blog...that's gotta be it. Now I am attempting to write this blog on my tablet, and I feel like I'm back on dial-up internet but as Ms. Boyardee reported the fans cannot wait any longer.

This recipe was entirely if my own doing, meaning Ms. Boyardee wasn't even there, and I survived it for the most part. Garlic is one ingredient that in my mind can make any recipe better. When the recipe calls for no garlic, its a safe bet Ms. Boyardee will only put about a full clove or two, just to be sure. Annually she probably consumes enough garlic to warn off Dracula, and all of team Edward ( he's the vampire one, I looked it up). Little did I know, garlic has natural immunity boosting powers and, if consumed in the quantities that Ms. Boyardee cooks with, can be a natural laxative and/or gas producer. Fun stuff for someone who never regularly consumed  garlic and was meeting the Boyardee family for one of the first times. I remember we made a similar recipe to this one, and like clockwork, gas started building up until the point I thought we'd have a Hindenburg-like explosion. I politely excused myself, let one go in the washroom and decided at that point...it was time to go. I made up an excuse of late night hockey, and left before I fumigated the place. I was Mario Andretti all the way home.

Over the years with Ms. Boyardee I have built up somewhat of a garlic tolerance and in true Ms. Boyardee fashion, I decided to up the stakes on the garlic quota. The recipe called for two heads of garlic, I added the two heads of garlic, and raised two ELEPHANT garlic heads. Elephant garlic heads are about the size of a big grapefruit and each clove can be the size of a lemon, I added a picture just so you can visualize how stupid I was in adding this much garlic to one dish.

The recipe itself is easy as pie. Actually its easier than pie, pie is hard to make. All you have to do is boil the insane amount of garlic with some potatoes, add pepper and olive oil, and puree it. Then you add copious amounts of Parmesan cheese to it with some bread and it's absolutely delicious.  What you don't want to do. is add that much garlic and then it eat, for 2-3 days in a row for lunch at work. Every step I took I almost farted and would DEFINITELY get fired for the resultant fumes. Proceed with caution. 

Ms. Boyardee also tried the soup and confirmed my original hypothesis. The taste however is worth it and the picture, is Ms. Boyardee-esque if I do say so myself.

Rating:

Ms. B: 4/10 ( I think this would be lower if she wasn't trying to spare my feelings)
J: 6.5/10 -1( for the ensuing flatulence) = 5.5/10