When you cook, do you use a lot of garlic?

When I see some cooking shows, I often see them using tons of garlic. I am not a Rachel Ray fan, but happened to catch one of her episodes the other day. They were cooking some vegetable, and putting in many cloves of garlic. “Lots of garlic, lots of garlic” she was saying.

I didn’t grow up on plain food, but my mom rarely used garlic and if she did, there was not a lot in the food.

In the way I cook and eat now, I try to avoid garlic because it means days of bad breath.

How about you? Do you use a lot of garlic when you cook?