Easy way to cook with fresh garlic

Microplane Fine Grater

This post goes hand-in hand with a previous post on Easy way to cook with onions.

We love fresh garlic in our food. But it is another thing to chop it up with a knife every time you want to eat. Ugh…. We always had some big chunks that would be overwhelming when you bit into the big piece in you meal.

Now for the sake of convince, we have tried a number of kinds of pre-chopped garlic. They were all good, don’t get us wrong but just not our favorite.

We would always return to purchasing the fresh garlic heads and enjoy all the wonderful flavor.

Finally, we have figured out a great way to cook with fresh garlic every time we want to: Follow the advice of Rachel Ray.  Use a Micro plane grater hand grater.

The funny thing about this story is that we used to watch Rachel Ray’s 30 Minute Meals show a lot (in the days before Graduate school). We watched her use the Microplane Fine Grater many, many, many times. And even thought we owned a Microplane grater, we waited for years before trying it ourselves. Eeks! It is almost too embarrassing to tell this story….

Anyway one evening, quite recently in fact,  we were faced with chopping fresh garlic cloves and  suddenly we remembered how Rachel grated up her garlic, and we pulled the grater out of the drawer and …. we….used it!

Well, we have never looked back. The Microplane Fine Grater works like a charm and reduces 2 cloves of garlic to a spoonful of wonderful fresh paste in seconds.

Note: watch your fingers when you use this sharp product.

We also use it for grating up fresh gingerroot and some hard cheeses (like parmesan).

We LOVE this grater, and can’t believe that we waited so long before trying it out. We bet you will also love it as well.  We are including the Amazon link for your shopping convenience- this makes a great gift for someone who loves to cook!