So, my wife and I are what some of you might call "Foodies", or food snobs, or something similar. We own a lot of cookbooks, spend far less frugally on food than other things in our life, eat seasonally and organic, blah blah blah, and WE COOK A LOT!
So it pains me to say the following:
I just found out that I'm allergic to garlic.
Like, what the fruck man? Garlic? You've got to be kidding me.
But I now have the little card to go in my wallet saying that I am "highly reactive" to garlic. I have eaten it nearly every day of my adult life. Obviously, I don't go into shock or anything. This is what you call a "delayed onset" type of reaction. But after years of thinking I was reacting to something else (gluten, dairy?) it turned out to be garlic that was screwing up my digestion and generally making me miserable.
So, my cry for help- anyone else here with this affliction? Any good substitutes that anyone is aware of? I may have to learn to love the stuff called "devil's dung"/hing, which seems to be the most popular substitution, but I'm curious about garlic chives, elephant garlic (not really garlic?), "society garlic", etc. I'm not reactive to onions, so there may be some hope regarding other members of the Allium family.
/feeling sorry for self