Get cooking with garlic

If you've never cooked with garlic before, 40 cloves and a chicken is a great recipe to start with.

As the name suggests you'll be baking up a ton of garlic cloves with your chicken and no mincing or chopping is involved.

Just peel your garlic, whip up this dish, and you're good to go!

Dig up that garlic!

Garlic is easy to grow but you can't see the bulbs in the ground so it can be tricky to know just when to harvest garlic that you're growing.

This quick guide to when to harvest garlic solves that problem, pulling together tips from many different growers to give you a good idea of when to harvest your garlic.

Garlic for hypertension

Numerous studies have show that eating as little as one clove of fresh garlic daily may help to reduce mild to moderate high blood pressure.

The exact mechanism isn't understood but garlic for blood pressure is a low-cost, natural cure that's been used by thousands of years.

The theory is that garlic's broader cardiovascular benefits come from the many organosulfur compounds that it produces, which interact with the human body in a variety of ways.

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Mashed potatoes, get in my belly

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Perfect roasted garlic

Roasted garlic is one of the most popular ways to cook and eat garlic as it's simple enough to wrap it up in aluminum foil and pop it in the oven.

If you're ready to step up your roasting game, though, take a peek at one of these cast iron garlic roasters. Not only do they guarantee that your garlic gets roasted evenly and perfectly but you'll save on aluminmum foil over time, as you just give them a quick scrub and they're good to go.

You can use these roasters in the oven and on the grill and they'l last forever if properly cared for.

Mmm, garlic scapes

Garlic scapes don't get as much love as cloves of garlic in cooking but the flowering stalks that most garlic plants grow each year can be tasty in a wide array of dishes.

Scapes are milder than garlic cloves so the taste is a little more subtle, such as in this garlic scape soup recipe.