Roasted garlic

I've had roasted garlic, spread on toasted bread, done on the grill before. But this time Ed did it in the oven (due to our overwhelming lack of grill in these parts), and it was awesome. Apparently its a little tricky figuring out where to cut the garlic, because you want to get the top off of each clove so you can get it out, but you don't want to cut away too much of the garlic - this stuff is good!

Roasted garlic
1 large head of garlic
olive oil
coarse-grained salt
bread (preferably french bread or some other rustic-style loaf)

Preheat your oven to 350F.

Keeping the head of garlic whole, chop the top off of it, trying to get a clean cut through the top of each clove while not removing too much of any clove. Put this on a sheetpan, cut side up, and drizzle generously with olive oil. More oil means more even cooking, or something like that. Put the garlic in the oven, and cook until its done. We weren't timing this, so really, you just keep cooking it until the cloves are soft and the whole thing has a slightly brown mostly golden toasted look. It should also smell delicious. I want to say it took 20-30 minutes, but just keep checking it every 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, cut the bread into slices, and toast that until its crispy on the outside and still chewy on the inside. If you drizzle or spray it with olive oil first, it'll toast up faster. This took ~5 minutes in the oven.


Pop out a clove of garlic using a butterknife - they should come out very easily, and should be quite mushy at this point.

You should be able to spread the garlic quite easily on the bread. Spread it around - if you want to split each clove over two pieces of bread, I won't be insulted, we like our garlic around here, so were laying it on thick. Hey, as long as the person you're kissing is also eating garlic, its all good...

For true deliciousness, sprinkle on some coarse-grained salt once you've spread the garlic - kosher salt or sea salt.

Maybe we shouldn't have eaten the entire head ourselves, but it was delicious - we couldn't help ourselves.