Garlic becomes sweet as it cooks gently in this fennel-laced broth. The fennel fronds have a delicate flavour similar to dill. Serve with creamy mashed potatoes and steamed asparagus.
Serve this saucy Asian dish (from our April 2005 "Easiest-Ever Weeknight Chicken" recipe collection) over Thai jasmine rice or long-grain rice with steamed baby bok choy on the side. Any colour of sweet pepper adds vibrancy to this dish. Look for black bean garlic sauce in Asian grocery stores and some supermarkets.
This isn’t your average pasta. Packed with nutritious veggies, crumbly bacon and the easiest garlic cheese sauce, you’ll want to have this on your weekly dinner rotation.
Garlic and rosemary give an earthy but bright flavour to this whole grain–enhanced loaf. It's nice on an old-fashioned sliced chicken, ham or roast beef sandwich with all your favourite toppings.
Fall-off-the-bone tender, this roast has a mellow garlic-and-shallot sauce that makes a smooth accompaniment. Roasting at a low temperature for four hours makes the meat extremely tender.
This skillet version of a classic French oven-braised roast chicken is delicious with green beans and buttermilk mashed potatoes or a whole grain baguette. To ease the chore of peeling 40 cloves of garlic, lay them in groups of 4 on a cutting board and press down with the flat side of a chef's knife to loosen the skins.
Roasting tomatoes brings out their rich flavour, and using cherry tomatoes speeds up the process. The harshness of the garlic mellows during roasting. For the Parmesan, a piece of Parmigiano-Reggiano has the best flavour and shaves nicely over the pasta. You can substitute other sharp hard cheeses, such as Grana Padano, Romano or Asiago.
Warm spices and a sweet-and-sour sauce intensify the flavour of chicken. Garnish the platter with the garlic bulbs so guests can pluck out the tender cloves. Serve this dish with Baby New Potatoes.
Let the aromas of garlic and herbs in this firm crustless quiche entice brunch guests to the table. Or serve wedges as a first course or with cold ham or pork tenderloin. Provolone is a pasta filata, or "stretched-curd," cheese shaped like a large bowling pin or sausage and sometimes encased in rope or twine. Like mozzarella, it is repeatedly stretched and heated during processing to give it a stringy texture.
My family absolutely loves this dish. It is one of those wonderful dishes that is best prepared the day ahead which leaves you plenty of time for entertaining when your friends are over. It came about as my son was dating a girl who was a vegetarian, I wanted to make a dish for supper that we could all enjoy with her. I looked at a variety of recipes and formulated this one, which we have come to love - I have shared the recipe with garlic loving friends who just can't get enough! All the ingredients can be grown in my backyard, although I usually buy the eggplant at the St. Jacobs Farmers market in Waterloo, about 15 minutes from my home. Serve this with a caesar salad and some crusty bread and voila! A meal your friends won't soon forget!
