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Creamy Garlic Salad Dressing

This delicious dressing recipe was provided by Plum Creek Garlic customer Donna Anderson.  Thanks Donna! ½ c. light mayonnaise 1 c.  fat free sour cream 1/3 c. milk 1 tsp. sugar 2 cloves garlic, minced very fine 2 green onions (green top only) finely chopped 1/2 tsp salt 1/8 tsp pepper Whisk mayo, sour cream, [...]

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Plum Creek Lemon and Scapes Salad Dressing

If you like garlic, you will love this dressing! Recipe by Cyd Reuter Ingredients: 2 – 3 Tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil 1 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice 1 tablespoon pureed scapes 1/2 tsp. finely grated lemon zest (optional) 1/2 tsp. salt 1/4 tsp. freshly ground black pepper 1/4 tsp. dry mustard Directions: Whisk all ingredients together [...]

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Plum Creek Chicken White Bean Chili

This was delicious at our June 2012 Scape picking party! Recipe by Cyd Reuter Ingredients 2 roasted poblano peppers, peeled and chopped 3 medium onions 1 yellow bell pepper 1 red bell pepper 3 tablespoons olive oil 5 scapes , chopped 1 teaspoon chili powder 2 chipotle chilies diced 1 roasted chicken pulled 15 tomatillos [...]

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Plum Creek Cream Cheese and Scapes Spread

We had this at our Scape picking party in June.  This is truly delicious if you have never tried it! Recipe by Cyd Reuter Ingredients 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened 2 tablespoons Pureed Scapes   Note to puree scapes:  chop 5 scapes and put them in the food processor-  drizzle a little olive [...]

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Roasting Fresh Tomatoes and Garlic Recipe (for freezing)

From our friend and customer Gina Loxtercamp. Here’s the recipe for roasted tomatoes for freezing from Byerly’s free cookbook.   12 tomatoes 20 cloves of garlic (you know I LOVE that!) 5 large thyme sprigs 1/4 c Extra Virgin Olive Oil Salt Pepper (I add chopped onions – also yummy)   You’ll need a large [...]

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Scrambled eggs with garlic and tomato

From our niece Carol and her friend Giselle.This is a classic Chinese ‘peasant’ dish.  This version comes to us from Giselle our niece Carol’s Chinese friend. Ingredients: 1 Tbsp of Plum Creek Garlic (minimum!) 1 Tbsp of Vegetable Oil 2 Tomatoes (or a small can of diced tomatoes if it’s the middle of winter) 1 [...]

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Phytoplasma

A very small bacteria affecting most garlic in the upper Midwest in 2012. (Updated September 4, 2012)  Many garlic growers in the upper Midwest have reported yellowing leaves and premature browning resulting in both crop loss and smaller garlic heads at harvest.   Some growers had 100% crop loss while others have had little or [...]

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Bloat Nematode

A Dangerous and Deadly Killer. We strongly urge anyone interested in growing garlic to only buy from a grower that has had their garlic tested for Bloat Nematode.  Plum Creek Garlic has tested negative for 2012 from the University of Minnesota.  We only grow garlic in one field at a time and we submit five [...]

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Feedback from Tim in Alabama

Hello Chris, Just wanted to thank you again for the advice you gave me on how to take care of my garlic. Those huge cloves of Armenian are now in the ground with a good layer of pine straw on top of them. Thanks again for going out of your way to help me and I look [...]

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Health Benefits From Garlic

Hana is a dietetics major and put this information together for Plum Creek Garlic on the health benefits of garlic. Thanks Hanna! Hanna found her information in Prescription for Nutritional Healing by James F. Balch, M.D. and Phyllis A Balch, C.N.C. Garlic is a super food! According to Prescription for Nutritional Healing, garlic has been [...]

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