just a tip | roast extra garlic

Hiya! Here it is the first "just a tip" of 2014 and its my new favorite. Next time you roast potatoes, squash, a chicken, whatever you might roast - throw a few whole cloves of garlic on the pan. They'll roast too - getting all mild and sweet - and then you can save them for later use. 

Roasted garlic is delicious whipped into butter, smeared on garlic bread, but its also really love in a vinaigrette or in pesto. For all you mamas - roasting garlic makes it much more mellow - so you can add it to pasta and your toddler might still approve* and you'll enjoy the extra flavor. 

*(I make no guarantees when it come to toddler and food: My pancake loving toddler turned them down this morning, sigh.) 

Smarter Supper | Roasted Tomato Sauce

I’m eating tomato toast as I write this, not because I love tomato toast but, more or less because I had a craving for toast and there are so many damn tomatoes in our kitchen right now.  I wanted to have a lovely little garden but at a plant sale this spring I got a little crazy and bought 16 tomato plants.  I clearly had no idea how many tomatoes would come from 16 plants and the rainiest year I’ve seen in Georgia yet.