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We’re teaming up with other food and garden bloggers to host Summer Fest 2010, a season-long garden party. Each week we’ll feature favorite garden-to-table recipes and tips to help you enjoy the bounty, whether you’re harvesting your own goodies or buying them fresh from the market. To join in, check out awaytogarden.com.

A few cloves (or heads!) of garlic are great for livening up plain chicken dinners. For an explosion of garlicky flavor, add these favorite weeknight wonders to your repertoire.

30-Minute Meal: Garlic Roasted Chicken
Cloves of garlic roast right along with the chicken. Squeezed the sweet, warm garlic out of the skin and spread onto fresh bread for a sensational side.

Marinade Magic: Roasted Garlic Chicken
This chicken hangs out in a mashed garlic mixture for 2 hours or overnight, so all the garlicky goodness sinks in before dinnertime.

Roasted Garlic Chicken from Food Network Magazine

40 Cloves: Ina’s Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic
Ina proves that you can never have too much garlic. The Barefoot Contessa mixes up a secret sauce, with loads of garlic, white wine, Cognac and a touch of heavy cream.

5-Ingredient Fix: Citrus Garlic Chicken
With a few key ingredients and a quick marinade, Claire cooks up a flavorful can’t-miss chicken dinner.

More Garlic with Friends and Family:

• Sara at Food2: Easiest Recipes Ever, Starring Garlic
• Michelle on Cooking Channel: Roasted Garlic
• Liz at Healthy Eats: 5 Reasons to Eat More Garlic
• Todd and Diane at White on Rice Couple: Garlic Knots
• Nicole at Pinch My Salt: Spicy Pickled Garlic
• Margaret at A Way to Garden: Growing and Storing a Year of Garlic
• Caroline at the Wright Recipes: Ajo Blanco Soup, and Confit Garlic
• The Gilded Fork: Garlic Dossier and Recipes
• Food Network UK: Glorious Garlic
• Paige at The Sister Project: Spaghetti with Garlic and Zucchini
• Alana at Eating from the Group Up: Pickled Garlic
• Cate at Sweetnicks: Double Dose of Garlic-Cuban Black Beans and The Best Pork Ever

Past Summer Fest Picks:

• A Chiles Rellenos Fiesta
• Tyler’s Ultimate Tomato Salads
• Paula’s Perfect Peach Cobbler
• The “Other” Summer Greens
• FN Chefs’ Creamed Corn-Off
• Paula’s Best Zucchini Bread

Join the conversation on twitter at #summerfood.