Week 9: Garlic - 44-Clove Garlic Soup [Cooking]

Intro from Cooking Challenge: Garlic! A relative of the onion and chive. While raw, it's very sharp and biting, but when roasted it can be such a mellow treat. You can use it as a spice to enhance, or make a whole dish from it. Garlic has a bit of a cult following, spawning festivals and places such as this. California is a huge producer of the crop.

"Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.” -Anthony Bourdain

I conveniently had a TON of garlic laying around needing to be used after I vastly underestimated how many clovers are in a head (my cornish hen recipe for Week 5 called for 20 cloves...so I bought 10 heads).  I roasted the whole bunch (less the 18 raw cloves called for in the soup recipe) and put the extra not used here in olive oil to save for bread dipping this weekend!

This is also the week it became abundantly clear that I do not have a future in food photography.  My Henrik Lundqvist bobble-head has joined the party, because garlic soup is very boring in pictures (although oh so tasty)!

Recipe taken from here.