[Jamestown1630]

Roasted garlic is wonderful!

Almost twenty years ago, my husband and I got stuck at a friend’s house when a horrible snowstorm came down. (We actually wound up being stuck for several days, the cars were so frozen-in, and the weather kept piling-on.)

We all decided to make the best of it, and roasted garlic drizzled with olive oil in the oven, to go with bread and a sparse meal made out of what was in the house.

The wind and snow at the windows, candle light on the table, and the wonderful smell of that garlic roasting, are memories that will never leave me.

Roasting garlic like that makes it into the most wonderful, ‘buttery’, aromatic stuff, to spread on chunks of good bread :-)

That makes even a meal that is otherwise just canned soup, seem like a meal for the Gods.

-JT

[MomwithHope]

My Dad would have loved your post as I did. He passed in 1995 and I stuck a garlic clove in his pocket at his wake. He grew his own garlic and shortly after he passed my mom was in a Wendys with her buddies. At the table next to them were some old guys eating. one of them said he hadn't seen my dad (used first name) in awhile. Another guy said - who, and the first guy said you know him he always smelled of garlic. Mom proudly called over that was her husband.
Another way to use roasted garlic, roast about 3 heads and put it on your next homemade pizza.

[Hoffer Rand]

Makes the house smell wonderful, too!!