Roasted Potatoes with Garlic Aioli
1 small bag of roasted baby potatoes
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1 tsp dried parsley
1 tsp dried Italian seasoning
3 Tbsp olive oil
Roasted Garlic Aioli
1 cup of Mayonnaise
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp apple cider vinegar
1 tsp dried dill
a small piece of foil
Instructions: Preheat Oven to 400F
Cut a small piece off the top off the head of garlic to expose individual cloves. Place garlic on top of a piece of aluminum foil. Drizzle with olive oil. Fold up your garlic nice and tight in the foil. Bake for 30 minutes until garlic is soft and light brown. Let it cool.
Place mayonnaise in a small bowl. Squeeze the roasted garlic in it. Add vinegar, dill, salt and pepper and mix until combined. Set aside while you prepare the potatoes.
Cut each potato in half. Place your potatoes in mixing bowl. Add seasonings and drizzle with olive oil. Toss so potatoes are fully coated.
Food for the Soul
Roasted garlic is a tasty member of the onion family that can be eaten on its own on top of a sliced baguette, or used to add some taste to a variety of foods. If you’re a fan of garlic, then you probably already know that not only does it taste great, but it also has health benefits. Go ahead, look it up! And for those that don’t like the strong taste of garlic (that wouldn’t be me!), garlic supplements are also available in powder, macerate, extract and oil.
There are so many things we can do to help promote better health, without adding garlic to our lives (but why wouldn't you?). And there are so many ways we can benefit our spiritual health as well. One of the best ways to promote a healthy spiritual life is by loving others. Expressing love has great benefits but we seem to have lost the desire in our culture to really seek out how to love others.
1 John 3:18 says; “Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.” I absolutely love the smell of garlic. Something about it just makes me happy! But if all I did was smell it, I wouldn’t receive a single one of its health benefits, let alone the "out of this world" fabulous taste. This is the same as telling others that we love them and yet not doing anything to show our love. The two verses before 1 John 3:18 say this; “This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?” (1 John 3:16-17) Those are strong words, aren’t they? And yet, they speak volumes of truth!
Loving others isn’t always easy. It can be difficult to show love when others aren’t loving us back. The key is to always remember that love is an action. Love is a choice that we must make every day as God’s precious children. Love is expected of us, because God loved us first. He didn’t wait until we showed Him that we loved Him. Romans 5:8 tells us; “But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Part of the challenge of loving others is that we often try to do it on our own, even pretending to have feelings of love where none exists. This can lead to hypocrisy and ‘play acting’ and others will see right through it. We must understand that we cannot truly love apart from God. It is when we remain in Jesus and the Holy Spirit remains in us that we are able to show and share the fruit of love, because His love shines through us.
We often think that it is for the good of others that we love them. And while of course, that is true hypothetically, the reality is that we become more like Christ when we love others. And that is very healthy benefit for us! Satisfying to the Soul!
I am a member of an online Women's Bible Study and we are doing a wonderful study that is teaching us all about what God's love looks like through believers (His children) in this world today. I highly recommend you do the study and read the book: "Love in Chaos", by Bob Goff.
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