Comments on: Dolmas (Stuffed Grape Leaves)

By: Yes, of course you can pair garlic with chocolate! » Su Good Sweets

Yes, of course you can pair garlic with chocolate! » Su Good Sweets — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:02:58 +0000

[...] well, with things that are oily (olive oil), fat (cream, pine nuts) or acidic (lemon),” writes a commenter on her blog. Chocolate is oily and fatty (and sometimes acidic), so this could work. Plus, [...]

By: blog from OUR kitchen » Event: Yes, Of Course You Can Pair Garlic With That! (8Oct2007)

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:53:22 +0000

[...] (Habeas Brûlée) received the following comment after posting about her Stuffed Grape Leaves made with garlic and hazelnuts: “I like to draw [...]

By: Habeas Brulee » Blog Archive » Yes, Of Course You Can Pair Garlic With That!

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:53:13 +0000

[...] I posted my recipe for dolmas (stuffed grape leaves), I mused that I should start a food blog event devoted to pairing garlic with hazelnut, a flavor [...]

By: Danielle

Danielle — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:48:19 +0000

Lisette – It may not be to your taste, but it is to mine. Your comment has inspired me to actually start the food blog event I was musing about in the original post. Thank you!

mr. ed – That sounds awfully good.

By: mr.ed

mr.ed — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:33:58 +0000

re: Garlic
I make a cornbread with corn, onion, pecans, jalopeno peppers and roasted garlic. Sorry, no leftovers. I haven’t tried hazlenuts, but I’ll bet pignolas would work.

By: Lisette

Lisette — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:10:14 +0000

Hi there,

I like to draw a line on the number of things you can pair with garlic and make these pairings successful. Peaches and garlic— no! Hazelnuts and garlic— no!

And here is why: garlic tends to do very well, super well, with things that are oily (olive oil), fat (cream, pine nuts) or acidic (lemon).
Hazelnuts do not contain as much oil as other nuts and for this reason, pairing them with garlic is less than optimal.
Do not forget that weird pairings, unusual pairings do not always mean successful pairings! The Greeks have been around longer than you and since hazelnuts grow in Greece, don’t you think they would have paired them together, to a great success?
So, experiment if you must but I do not predict great successes with this attempt! Sorry to rain on your parade!

Lisette

By: Danielle

Danielle — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:30:00 +0000

Yvo – I enjoyed the Acropolis. I was busily teaching myself to read Greek properly then, so I had fun with every sign and carved word! Plus, at least it was a bit of a hike upwards.

mr. ed – It was really wonderful finally meeting you and Liz at the wedding! Honestly, chatting with the two of you was the best part of the event.

Michael – I haven’t, but I should. My father has a grapevine in his backyard.

By: Michael Natkin

Michael Natkin — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:43:15 +0000

Have you experimented at all with using fresh grape leaves? We have lots of them growing in our neighborhood but I haven't gotten around to trying them. Michael Natkin Herbivoracious.com

By: Lydia

Lydia — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:17:51 +0000

I made these recently with ground turkey — not quite the same as the lamb, but not bad at all.

By: mr.ed

mr.ed — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:50:13 +0000

On our way home from a wedding in CT last weekend, we stopped at the Alexis diner at I-84 and 9W in NY state. We try to find these places, as they usually have what we crave. The place is enormous, clean, new and shiny with neon soffit lights and huge, friendly crowds.
We got dolmades as a little side included with the salads with our mammoth lunches. Yeah, we should have split a dish- with another table. No, the gyro meat wasn’t fresh- it was frozen, but pretty good for road food. Those who don’t drive are missing some real eating adventures. And misadventures. We just missed hitting a black bear running across Rte 6 in PA.