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The benefits of using Garlic to cook with during Thanksgiving
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Spice up your holiday potatoes, add garlic.
You might see garlic as a food that smells or that tastes bad but there are still insurmountable benefits that garlic has that nothing else can touch. Sure it may smell strong and chase away vampires and repel mosquitoes and ruin your romantic night with that special someone due to “garlic breath.” But did you know that garlic is hailed as one of the world’s most powerful natural antibiotics? It's true, eating garlic on a regular basis is a sure guarantee that you will not be as ill as the next person and you will not have as many problems with the mosquitoes either.
When you or someone in the family is sick with something such as bronchitis, influenza, pneumonia or other diseases like these where there exists a bacterial infection garlic is just what the Natural Examiner will order. Because of such benefits why wouldn’t you use garlic in your Thanksgiving meals this holiday season? I wouldn’t have a reason to list, not only will you be using a very smart culinary food but you will be using very smart cooking skills and will be playing a part in making sure your Thanksgiving guests will be more healthy than when they came to your home. Below is a very great tasting Thanksgiving dish idea using Garlic as its ingredient:
Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Ingredients
1 medium head garlic
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 pounds russet potatoes, peeled and quartered
4 tablespoons butter, softened
1/2 cup milk
salt and pepper to taste
Directions
1-Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2-Drizzle garlic with olive oil, then wrap in aluminum foil. Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour.
3-Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add potatoes, and cook until tender, about 15 minutes. Drain, cool and chop. Stir in butter, milk, salt and pepper.
4-Remove the garlic from the oven, and cut in half. Squeeze the softened cloves into the potatoes. Blend potatoes with an electric mixer until desired consistency is achieved.
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