Roasted garlic is one of my favourite ways to eat garlic, especially with t0mato sauce and baked potato or rice.
Roasted Garlic Puree Use as a spread for buttered, toasted French bread.
4 large heads garlic 1/4 cup olive oil 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon pepper 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
Chop off bottom of garlic head, and separate whole cloves, leaving tight outer covering intact. Place cloves in a shallow 8-inch square baking dish, and drizzle with olive oil. Bake at 350 degrees F for 20 minutes.
Cool and drain; remove skins. Roast garlic may be eaten as is or puréed for smoother texture.
To purée, position knife blade in food processor bowl; add garlic, salt, pepper and lemon juice. Process 30 seconds or until almost smooth, scraping sides of processor bowl occasionally.
The weather has been dismal for the past few weeks. First, there was a long period of drought; then five days of rain and cold. Today the sun is out and brilliant but the wind still embraces Winter's chill. I'm told snow is in the forecast. I can only say enough is enough. It is time for the growing season.
The grasses and what we call weeds are doing well. The fact that the weeds are thriving may suggest to us that we are cultivating the wrong plants.
We will return to that theme another day. For now, lets go back to garlic. Common garlic Allium sativum--Soft neck Garlic, Italian Garlic, Silverskin Garlic. There are two main 'types' of common garlic--the so-called 'artichoke' garlics we buy in the supermarket, and the 'silverskins', with either very white, or white blushed rose outer skins.
The bulbs of the common 'artichoke' types outer parchment is white, or off-white. There is usually a row of decent sized cloves around the outside, and irritatingly smaller, thinner cloves in the interior (altho' there are varieties with few, but quite large, cloves).
As we all know, removing the skin from these cloves is not easy. The bulb is wrapped in many layers of parchment, which continues up to form a soft parchment like neck ideal for using to braid all your bulbs together on a string to hang in the kitchen!
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