Garlic Breath is the Way to Go

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Have you ever tasted Garlic Bundle appetizers? Have you ever put something in your mouth and knew right then and there that you were going to gain two hundred pounds in the next few seconds? Have you ever refused garlic because you were worried about your breath afterwards? I haven't, though maybe I should. I usually just tell French Husband, "Eat those," as I point to the garlic whatever, "because I did, and two garlic breaths are better than one."

La Madone's Terrace

Spring dinner: Garlic Bundles with a green salad, roasted green beans and a bottle of wine. I called Sacha and French Husband downstairs.

Garlic Bundles

  • 3 large heads of garlic, separated the cloves, use only the chubby ones.
  • 1/2 package of phyllo dough
  • 1 cup butter, melted
  • 1/2 cup finely chopped walnuts
  • 2 cups dried bread crumbs.
  • 3 artichoke hearts optional

How to make Garlic Bundles

Peel garlic, lick your fingers, imagine your taste buds getting silly.
Preheat oven to 350 F.
Cut the phyllo dough into three fingers wide strips.
Brush with
melted butter, do not be stingy.
Place a chubby clove of garlic at one end.
Sprinkle finely chopped roasted walnuts along length of strip.
Roll up garlic clove and walnuts in strip, tucking in side edges as you
roll.
Your fingers will be covered with happiness.
Dare not to lick.
Brush bundle with more generous liquid gold (butter).
Roll the Garlic Bundle in bread crumbs.
Repeat with remaining phyllo strips, one bundle after another.
Place bundles on a flat baking sheet.
Bake 20 minute or until golden.

For added pleasure, chop a few artichokes into the roasted walnuts.

Happy garlic breath to you!

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After note:

I do not have a photo of the bundles. Taking photos at night does not show my good side.

The image of the outdoor table on a terrace was taken at La Madone.



Comments

26 responses to “Garlic Breath is the Way to Go”

  1. Linda C.

    I love garlic!
    Quite an original and inventive recipe Corey, one of your own?

  2. I can’t stand garlic and this is the major problem I have every time I go to France, avoid it!

  3. this sounds marvelous and , darn it , where’s the picture ?
    I love to roast the entire head of garlic and then squish the soft cooked garlic out of the paperskin onto homemade bread . With butter or olive oil , of course…

  4. Very entertaining, innovative style of recipe-writing! I love garlic and this sounds divine. I would say the artichoke hearts are essential, not optional.

  5. maybe you will wiegh 200 pounds
    but
    the Garlic Part
    is a Health Food
    and
    will help you live 200 years
    or so…
    🙂
    not so certain
    about This Part—>
    1 cup butter, melted

  6. Love garlic but I don’t think my hubby will get full for dinner on garlic bundles and a salad. I know you are Vegans, but at my house, if a dinner doesn’t include some form of meat…my two men {hubby and son} will certainly complain. Now if I was just fixing dinner for myself, I would live on fresh salads and sour dough bread 😉

  7. Will definitely try this! Nice combination of flavor and texture.

  8. Christina

    Yummy Garlic.
    love it.
    Slovenia smells like garlic to me. Part of my familie is from there.
    When I was younger and we drove down there for the summers, crossing the borders from germany to austria, it smelled different. crossing into slovenia, it almost instantly smelled different again. lovely different.
    I know it’s the garlic smell. (personal opinion)
    Hated it when my parents ate garlic at home, it “stunk” of it there… couldn’t smell a thing when they ate heaping garlic breads at grandmas in slovenia…
    ohh the memories
    Thank you :o)

  9. Oh so Yummy sounding!!! Going to have to make this some time this week!!

  10. Oh garlic, how do I love thee….if I can find a gluten-free substitute for the phyllo – I’m in! Must have smelled divine in your kitchen.

  11. Sounds great as an appetizer with drinkies…I’ll make this this summer as I invite neighbors to the front pation as we drink and eat garlic bundles… I would like to try other types of bundles..feta cheese and walnuts…carmelized onions and pecans…hey we have a trend here…Luv Ya Corey..Happy, Happy Spring to Us All…..

  12. Julie Ann Evins

    I love garlic, love love love. Not walnuts tho, would substitute pine nuts. Is that Nathalies town apartment Coco ? Happy days, jx

  13. There is no such thing as garlic breath when everybody has it!
    This sounds decadently delicious!

  14. waftbyCarol, yes, yes, yes!!! Roasted garlic on artisanal-quality French or Italian bread — yummmm!
    Corey, did you know there’s a well-known garlic cookbook titled “The Stinking Rose”?
    BTW, a good many garlic-growers in the Gilroy area are, ahem, Portuguese-Americans!
    We just drove through the area on the Pacheco Pass highway east of Gilroy (en route from US 101 to I-5) last fall, including past a huge processing plant, whose garlic perfume one could smell even at a distance — heavenly!

  15. These sound divine! Do you have a picture of the finished bundles? Oh…my husband and I both love garlic (and butter, and pastry dough), so I can see these being a wonderful thing. Mmmmm!

  16. I’ve always wanted to go to the Garlic Festival in Gilroy. I love garlic and that sounds sooooo good Corey! I have everything except for the phyllo dough dagnabbit or we’d be eating it tonight – I’m putting it on the grocery list right now!
    And I’m curious, do you add anything to the green beans or is it simply green beans and olive oil?
    Okay … rumbly in my tumbly now …

  17. This sounds absolutely crazy good … my husband isn’t a garlic lover … but that won’t stop me from making these … hopefully he loves me enough to get over my breath!!
    I WILL make this recipe .. thank you for sharing it!!
    xo
    Jill

  18. Brother Mathew

    Love garlic. Made the bundles tonight. Pretty damn good! Could have eaten five but settled on four. Thanks.

  19. Your men are lucky to live with such a good cook. Green beans and garlic, a match made in Heaven.

  20. jend’isère

    ail, ail, ail! Love that “Ail Nouveau”. Makes everything better, I must try it ion your purest state.

  21. I can’t live without garlic or onions. Yum. Can’t wait to bite into one, two, or three of these bundles of love.
    The memories of Gilroy’s stinky rose aroma on our way to Monterey to visit family.

  22. I can’t WAIT to try these. We adore garlic and I have been cooking more and more, even inviting friends! which means of course (especially in France) that I am receiving more reciprocal invites and this would be a lovely something to bring along … for aperos!! yay! thanks!

  23. Such inspiration!!! La Madone is calling…I’m currently checking into airfares…seems like destiny….and decadence…bit of both.
    Garlic bundles all ’round I say!!!

  24. No, I’ve never turned down garlic for the sake of fresh breath. I do what you do, make my hubs eat it too (which he is happy to do). Oh, those garlic bundles shall be mine soon!

  25. @ Star, there’s also a great restaurant in SF called The Stinking Rose, they do an amazing 40 clove chicken that is to die for!

  26. Lovely recipe…will have a go with them this comming weekend! Love your blog… 😉

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