Thanks beppe
The description of the feast with friends sounds lovely. And given the work with cleaning and slicing the garlic, it's not something I would like to do all that often.
I didn't think about saving the remains to use for flavouring - like with pesto - but I will do that next time. I didn't use all of it on my vegetables - I spooned out small amounts from the oil - and I may have used more oil than suggested, didn't measure it.
It's been fun to make something that's entirely new to me.