hi I'm Ellen bass and I'm going to show you how to use a garlic roaster now garlic is very healthy for you it's heart healthy and actually its benefits have been touted to range from helping with colds and allergies to fighting cancer and heart disease so get out your garlic roaster if you don't have one you can always put garlic and aluminum foil and in the oven as well but using a garlic roaster is fabulous way to roast garlic for this recipe you're going to need three garlic heads olive oil for drizzling salt and pepper to taste and your garlic roaster I like to use a garlic keeper to keep my garlic on the counter I do not like to put it in the refrigerator because if you do it will sprout green sprouts which are very bitter so today what we're gonna do is get our garlic roaster out and three heads of garlic cut off the top of the garlic put each garlic head in the bottom of your roaster drizzle with good olive oil some salt and pepper put the top on your garlic roaster and bake at 400 degrees for 30 minutes the cloves should feel soft let it cool and squeeze out the garlic of each clove spread it on bread add it to soups add it to a pasta sauce lots of ways to use roasted garlic