Best Roasted Garlic Soup:

Give this Roasted Garlic Soup to a family member or friend when they are sick or just to warm their heart.

The properties contained in these tiny little bulbs are the greatest for lowering cholesterol and increasing immunities.

A VERY IMPORTANT NOTE!!: If anyone is taking a blood thinning medication I would suggest not including the garlic in your recipe because it also effectively thins the blood. This includes the "one a day" preventative medications and doctor prescribed.

Also you can store this broth in the freezer. If that is what you are going to do, please note that the noodles will continue to absorb even more water after they have been cooked. What to do? Put a strainer over the top of a seperate container and pour the soup in.

This will seperate your broth from your ingredients. Put your broth into a seal tight container and freeze! Then when your ready simply add more water and a little more spices and you are ready for your soup to be reheated!

What to do with the extra pasta and spices? After they have cooled and been drained, add a couple of teaspoons of olive oil stir and store in the fridge for tomorrow's pasta lunch!

Serve it to a sick friend or Save it for Yourself!

2 or 3 Bulbs of Garlic (Yup! The whole thing!)

Rotini Pasta

Dill

Parsley

Jalapeños (McCormick's makes a great crushed pepper in a jar, but using real is best. Just slice 'em and dice 'em and you are all ready.)

Coarse Black Pepper

Carrots

Celery

Lemons

Directions :

When the oven is ready I put my 2 or 3 bulbs into the Garlic Roaster to roast for approximately 10 minutes.

The carrots and celery go first. Use it to your hearts content. If you like a lot then go for it. If not, then only use enough to add some nice colour, but it should be added for it's health benefits. I usually use about 1/4 cup of chopped dill and put this into the boiling water next.

Parsley is a diuretic. (That means you will be using the washroom after.) Use parsley in moderation. Less than a 1/3 cup is sufficient, but you can use more. Do not use more than 1/2 a cup as that as it is way to hard on your bowels.

I remove the garlic from the oven at this point, unpeel and drop into the soup. Again if you are not a fan of the clove, only use a couple and dice them up small.

I sprinkle as much pepper on as possible remembering who else aside from myself will be eating it.

Then I add the Jalapeños. Whether it is crushed Jalapeños, or Jalapeños that I have diced myself, the spice factor is what you are after with this one.

Although you may not enjoy Jalapeños, it makes for an amazing spice in your get - well - soon - soup. Jalapeños increase your white blood cells assisting your body with fighting off a virus.

Depending on the size of pot you are using, gage how many cups of Rotini Noodles to use. I try to add at least 3 1/2 - 4 cups as I know I will add more water when I unfreeze it for another meal.

Stir on occasion so that the noodles do not get stuck together.

The very very last thing I do before taking it off the stove? I cut two lemons in half. They have seeds so you can use your hand to strain them, but this gives a little more kick with those first few slurps!

All in all, this is a very healthy soup recipe, filled with roasted garlic!

Now that everything has been added I wait.

You can add cooked chicken to add protein to this soup. It is a great protein for soup, and offers the body added iron that is lacking when we are ill.

The whole process takes me approximately 30 - 40 minutes from first adding the water to in my own bowl.

Tip: If at the first bite it is very hot and spicy,adding a dolup of sour cream will help counter the heat, but you will still receive the benefits of the food.

I stir this only on occasion because I enjoy the sights and smells coming from my pot.

And thus, your soup is born. Enjoy it, share it, and cook away. Eating this soup at the onset or during a cold or flu virus, will help increase your bodies ability to fight it off, thereby shortening the length of your cold or flu.

**Tip**I have not given size allotments for the foods for one reason.

I may like 2 cups of carrots in my soup, but that doesn't mean you will. (If you would like the allotments that I use, please email me and I will forward exactly how I make it.. )

I feel that cooking is like making a picture. You can change the colours but you will never please everyone. Please yourself first.

Either way these ingredients are all apart of my "picture".