Later, I'll Re-Heat The Pasta For More Smell!

490,000 Google results for “Get rid of garlic smell.”  Why?!?

People don't like lingering smells in their house, Jeremy.  You don't seem to notice.

So, I fancy myself a pretty decent cook most of the time.  I often like to partake in what I call "Culinary Adventures" where I try to make something new for the first time.  Sometimes they are a smashing success, (Hello, Chipotle pulled taco beef!) and other times, I spend the next four days chiseling burnt oatmeal out of my crock pot (I hate you, whoever posted that crap on Facebook).  These adventures have also led to my award-winning chili recipe, and my self-proclaimed Best Oatmeal Raisin Cookies.  No, you can't have either recipe, but if you invite me to a party or something, you can request that I bring chili or cookies.  I'm fair like that.  

Not long ago, I made pasta.  Ooooo, exciting.  Yeah, I know....pasta is usually pretty simple, and it is in this case, too.  However, it does involve slicing a mildly exaggerated number of garlic cloves into thin wafers.  This means that my entire house now smells like garlic.  

Very rarely do people walk into a house that smells of garlic and say, "Yooooooo, it stinks up in this!"  The much more common reaction is something more along the lines of, "Oh, it smells so good in here," because garlic smell always means fresh home cooking.  Such is the case with me.  I love the smell of garlic cooking, and the smell of my house after I've cooked with garlic.  It also tends to linger a bit.  

By bedroom does not smell like garlic.  I have an air freshener thing in there, and a humidifier which dampens smells of all types, and one of those Himalayan salt lamp thingies which is supposed to release negative ions into the air for health benefits which I believe are purely bunk.  All of this stuff served to isolate my room from the overall garlic smell of the house.  So, when I came out of my room this morning to go to work, I was assaulted by the wonderful leftover smell of garlic.  Yay!  I wondered if there was a way to get rid of that smell, not that I really wanted to...just a curiosity.