Roasted Garlic

Not much is more versatile then the humble garlic.  For most of us, its awesome flavor is one of the first we recognize in our young cooking lives.  I for one, would put garlic powder on darn near anything I cooked as a teen.  In fact, while in the first semester in culinary school, the entire class would rush to the garlic when developing dishes.  I still hold this love for garlic in my heart.  When cooking breakfast in a half vegetative sleep state, my subconscious grabs for the stuff to toss in any and all unwilling dishes in front of me.

One day I was blankly looking at my smoker thinking, what next.  Just like breakfast, culinary school, and in my teens, the first thing to pop in my head was garlic!

Ingredients:

12 head of garlic
2 Tbs Olive Oil
1 Tbs BBQ Rub

Directions:

Pull the extra paper off the garlic heads, don’t worry to much about the paper that sticks to cloves.
Cut the garlic tops off exposing the cloves.  This will allow for the smoke to penetrate into the cloves.
Spread the oil over the heads of garlic and sprinkle with BBQ Rub.
Smoke for 1 hour and roast for 30min at 250F until the garlic is tender.  Poke with a fork, the garlic should almost be spreadable.

These cloves are great spread on toast, in hummus, and served as a side with some Prime Rib.