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I apologize if this is a little too exciting but I have been looking for this food the last few, uh, 119 days. I had it at this food festival, loved it, bought out the vendor (it was the end of the day and they only had a gallon left) but I may have fallen in love with toum (it's a dip made primarily of garlic, oil, and lemon but that really doesn't tell the whole story the garlic is sweet).

I found toum at the fancy grocery today :3

I spent the evening eating pita covered in labne (tangy Lebanese yogurt) and toum. There's a farmers' market a few towns over where this guy sells the best bolani and now I can't wait until market day.

Photo: Joe Lingeman

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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Goes really well with shawarma. Also it's not hard to make if you can't find it again/want to save money.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

point of order what doesnt it go well with

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 days ago

Chocolate milk.

I'd say cereal 😅

[–] grue@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've made toum twice. The first time went great, but the second time I couldn't get it to emulsify correctly. Also, peeling the garlic is pretty laborious.

More recently, I've just been buying it. The "Toom" brand is at least seasonally available at Costco, and Kroger has started carrying both that and store-brand (in a deli container -- might be made in-store; not sure).

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Fun trick: if you have a bunch of garlic to peel, separate the cloves, put them in a large bowl, put another large bowl over the top (inverted, like a clam shell), and shake the hell out of it. You'll find all the cloves have completely separated from the papery outsides.

[–] Johnmannesca@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I like using a jar with a few drops of water personally as it takes less equipment

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

And now a drum stops solo!

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago

Was going to post the same advice. Works great.

[–] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 5 days ago

Toum is great, now I want to try making some.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

labne (tangy Lebanese yogurt)

How is this different from any other Mediterranean/Asian strained yoghurt?

this labne is inside me and that yoghurt is not

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Guess we are lucky, can find it just about anywhere here. But we also have shawarma restaurants everywhere here and several middle eastern supermarkets.

for some reason people in my area are just discovering middle eastern and mediterranean food despite the best restaurant in the area for the last 30 years being a greek place, so idk.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 days ago

Toum is so good