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I have never once followed a recipe and thought “this is an adequate amount of garlic”.

@thegodthief

Story time: I spent Thanksgiving 2014 with my friend S. and his girlfriend.  S. cooked Thanksgiving dinner.  He made the mashed potatoes from a recipe that said they would be very garlicky.  I helped him peel the required garlic; there was an astonishing quantity of it, and it took the two of us something like an hour to peel it all.

“This seems like a lot of garlic,” I said.

“Yeah, the recipe actually said it will seem like too much,” he assured me.

It turned out that he has misread the recipe as asking for a certain number of garlic heads when it actually asked for only that number of cloves.

The result was delicious.

(via clawsofpropinquity)