Garlic head

Roasting garlic is the best and easiest way to develop its deep, mellow flavor. Here's how to roast whole heads of garlic and use it in variety of delicious ways.

This is a super-basic recipe to have in your arsenal that can be used in a million ways. It's essentially roasted garlic with the added benefit of garlic-flavored oil to use however you want. Whole garlic heads are slow-roasted with herbs and lots of olive oil until they are sweet and meltingly soft and tender.

Few garlic-based dishes are as French as aioli, a garlic mayonnaise that's served with blanched vegetables or poached salt cod.

If you’re cooking with garlic or planting garlic in your garden, you’ll want to know how many cloves in a head of garlic.

Garlic confit may sound fancy but it is super simple to make. In 45 minutes cloves of garlic go from pungent to silky, spreadable, sweet, caramel garlic cloves by gently heating them in olive oil.

Peeling garlic is never a fun task. It’s right up there with picking parsley or tournéing potatoes. Check out this tip to peel an entire head in seconds!

Daily paintings from Provence by British artist Julian Merrow-Smith. Postcard from Provence is a project recording the seasons in his adopted home in Provence. This painting is titled 'Three heads of garlic' , and is one of 3667 daily paintings from the artists's studio in France created since 2005

Julian Merrow-Smith, Garlic heads

When you need a substitute for garlic because you're out of fresh bulbs, don't panic. Just choose an item from our list and keep cooking.