Thanksgiving Day

The turkey is in the oven, made the cranberries, key lime pie and the croutons for the dressing yesterday.  Dressing mixed and ready to bake as are the parkerhouse rolls.  Family coming with additions to the meal, and loads for us all to be thankful for.  What a glorious day but I miss all my cooking buddies.

I love to cook and pass on great recipes

Roasted Garlic

I love making roasted garlic.  Its milder flavor is great for using in loads of recipes, and it makes a fantastic and cost effective gift for a wonderful friend.  They will be coming back for more!

Ingredients:

Fresh garlic cloves – already peeled.  You can get these in large containers in the refrigerator section at Costco, BJ’s, or Sams Club.

Chicken broth

Sprigs of fresh rosemary

Olive oil

Salt

Aluminum Foil

Glass jar for storing your roasted garlic

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees

Prepare a glass dish – a casserole, loaf pan, or a cake dish will do – just have a large enough or several container to do the entire container of garlic.  Put a little olive oil in it and wipe it around with a paper towel

Open the container of garlic cloves and trim the hard root end off cloves if needed

Put all of the garlic cloves into the glass dishe(s)

Add chicken broth to be approx. ¼ up the side of the dish

Put 2 – 3 sprigs of rosemary on top

Drizzle olive oil over the top of the garlic cloves and rosemary

Sprinkle salt over all

Cover tightly with aluminum foil

Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.  Cloves are done when soft – test with a fork by mashing down on several.  Be careful when taking off the foil cover, open slightly and let the steam escape before  pulling off the entire cover.  Let cool and place in glass jar with lid and store in your refrigerator. 

Use for making garlic butter, just spreading on bread, to your homemade pizza, or in any recipe calling for garlic.