#alliums

[wgm-beautiful-world]

A l l i u m s

[sreegs]

Not to be all One Weird Trick This Ex-Tumblr Employee Discovered About Garlic, but I saw someone commented on my paprika post that garlic and onions make them sick.

My wife has an allium intolerance. If she eats garlic, shallots, scallions, chives, or raw onions she gets an upset stomach, etc. Cooked onions are fine, though. For the longest time I just had to omit those ingredients from the food I cooked for her.

One day we were at a bar and we ordered some food and asked for no garlic in one of the dishes. The bartender put in the order and asked if garlic makes us sick, and my wife said yes, and explained the allium thing. The bartender said his wife has the exact same thing, and he found out that freezing garlic first seemed to alleviate her symptoms.

So I went and tried it. I was cooking a polenta and put some frozen garlic in it. My wife came home and I asked, "Are you sure you want to try this? It's pretty garlicky." and she tried it and said "This doesn't taste like garlic at all." And I knew that it definitely did. I could smell and taste the distinct flavor of garlic, but to her there was a complete absence of any garlic flavor that she knew of. It makes me wonder if freezing garlic breaks down a compound that I don't even notice because I've never had issues with garlic.

Anyways, I freeze my garlic and shallots now, and my wife can eat those without issue. Sure it's not the same as fresh, but we can both enjoy it this way.

[theroadtofairyland]

Blue Out

Watercolor On Black Paper

2022, 22"x 30"

Blue Allium, Ornamental Onions

Private Collection

[stormcrow13]

There aren't enough Garlic and Onions in the Fallout series.

[shelovesplants]

Ornamental onion allium hybrid 💜🪻

[wheat-privilege]

I had to pull up my last carrot because it was putting up a big stalk to flower, so I have gotten two alliums and some little potatoes up as well. Nothing is perfect, but I'm excited to make Balcony Soup for lunch today.

These are my goth potatoes too so I'll be interested to see what their insides are like when I cut into them.

[florealegiardini]

A muddle of Allium ‘Purple Rain’, Geum ‘Totally Tangerine’ and Aquilegia atrata welcomed me as I bound out the back door home from the Chelsea Flower Show this evening. 💜🧡 ~ Ann-Marie Powell

[sreegs]

ah my onions are here

[petula-xx]

Potato onions. These babies have literally spent just 72 hours soaking in seaweed solution water.

3 days ago these potato onions were edible. I'm blown away by how much root and sprout growth has happened in such a short time. They are ready to plant out now.

Plants are amazing!

[theroadtofairyland]

Worlds Of Possibility

Watercolor On Black Cotton Paper

2023, 44"x 30"

Ornamental Onions, Allium

[stanford-photography]

Allium Blues

[shelovesplants]

Ornamental alliums 🩷🌸

[wheat-privilege]

A little box full of the dinner veggies I grew! Some peas, a sprig of basil, some spring onions (grown from the roots of ones I got at the supermarket), some young spinach and a variety of lettuce leaves.

It's always exciting to make dinner out of plants you grew!

[erissdoesart]

I forgot to post it here aksbslal

I was looking through my art after rereading this awesome fic and I realized I didn't post this one on tumblr. So here it is, and soon I shall deliver an extra one because it's so freaking good!

@space-anon-writes thank you for your fic, it's really good!