Before we start, a little lesson in garlic. Garlic comes in heads, not to be confused with cloves. The cloves are the parts of the heads that you peel off. There are about 10 cloves to a head of garlic. When it comes to recipes, do not confuse a clove with a head...you will end up with a disaster. I have a cousin who once did this. Her recipe called for something like 10 cloves of garlic, so, she used 10 heads...thats like 100 cloves of garlic. Needless to say, their kitchen smelled pretty good!
OK, so, take one head of garlic and chop the top off so that the cloves are exposed. Dont do too much, or else you will lose most of the garlic.
Peel the excess peel off...but leave the cloves still in the peel...make sense?
Drizzle with a little olive oil.
Wrap in foil.
Place in 375 oven for 30-40 minutes, until browned. Thats it!
Now the good part. The cloves will be nice and tender and you can just squeeze out the garlic. Divine! Use it however you desire. Put it in mashed potatoes or on top of a baked potato. My favorite....take a piece of french bread, or a dinner roll, and squeeze it on their. It spreads like butter!
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