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I subscribe to Purple Carrot which is like Blue Apron but for vegan recipes. I've tried them all and Purple Carrot will make you work the hardest and the recipes are the best. However, I get a box from them every other week and even if the recipes only call for a clove or two of garlic, they will send you a whole bulb. I have been accumulating them at an alarming pace and I hate to throw out perfectly good garlic because I can't use it. Yes, I have a freezer full AND a counter full. So, I need some recipe recommendations that call for a bulb or more. I live in a fairly large city so if I don't have the cookbook, I can probably get it from the library on one of my regular trips. Any suggestions?

Well there is the classic French dish, roasting a lot of cloves of garlic alongside a whole chicken. It is usually named as chicken with 40 cloves of garlic but sometimes with 20 cloves. Other suggestions are to roast whole heads whenever you have the oven on then mash up the cloves and freeze - great for adding a  flavor boost to stews, soups, dressings,, etc. Or make confit of garlic where you poach then store the cloves in oil. They last for ages that way.

Toum, black garlic... might also interest you

The chicken with 40 cloves of garlic is really nice ;-) The toum sauce goes with anything; aioli, pistou... and here's a link that has garlic heavy recipes for vegans

I'm not sure if you are a canner, but pickled garlic is a lovely treat to have stashed away (I made 2 different recipes this year) and I also am planning a batch of an onion/garlic jam this week. I'm also not sure what you froze (whole cloves? minced garlic?) but I also freeze roasted garlic in roughly 2 tsp portions that I use for lots of different recipes.

I always keep garlic confit in refrigerator  (keeps 5-6 weeks refrigerator in a jar) and in freezer (as far as I am concerned, keeps over 1 year) using zip lock after first refrigerating so it is spoonable into a zip lock. This recipe uses 8 heads of garlic.  I use garlic confit for everything needing garlic except desserts and Asian recipes where olive oil is distracting. 

https://nocrumbsleft.net/2016/01/04/garlic-confit/

Bias against Nigella?  That would never happen in the states!  I will try her 40 cloves chicken recipe.

The pickling and confit ideas could be Christmas gifts since I also have too many jars.  I love a good condiment recipe, especially things like chutney and onion jam so, I did a search and found a garlic jam recipe from Emeril.  

Thanks for all the great ideas!

Originally Posted by: Churchim808

The pickling and confit ideas could be Christmas gifts since I also have too many jars.

We do this all the time, and all year round. It makes for a happy sphere of friends, neighbors, and family. It allows us keep two jars of something one year and not eight jars of something for five years.

Roasted Garlic! Make the au gratin or scalloped potatoes from My Paris Kitchen by David Lebovitz. 

Roast a bunch and use it thusly: in pastas like lasagne, alfredo, pastisio, or spread on sourdough toast with avocado, or toss in stir fries, or make a dip, I have made a good one with random roasted veggies and cream cheese, that would be improved with some roasted garlic and then spread on bagels. 

Don't forget making aioli or pesto either. I have a jar of homemade hazelnut pesto that I put a lot of garlic in, it is keeping really well because I may have added a lot of garlic ;) 

There is also a French Recipe for Garlic Soup where you use up whole bulbs of garlic at a time making it. Not sure where I saw, maybe in My French Kitchen? It's a cookbook by the gal the wrote the book that turned into the movie Chocolat', cannot remember her name. Joanne something?? 

Just ideas of the top of my head, I spend too much time leafing thru cookbooks. 

It's Joanne Harris who wrote Chocolat!

In the following book you also have the recipe for garlic soup:  the Basque Country by Marti Buckley