Homemade Garlic Bread

We’re big Italian food fans in our house. Some kind of pasta with some kind of sauce and some melty cheese is some good stuff. The perfect accompaniment? Italian bread, of course. I make Italian herb bread, which is YUM. However, if I happen to see some of the garlic bread they make at the grocery store on the discount bakery rack – I always buy it. You know the one – the Italian loaf split in the middle with the garlic butter.

So I got to thinking – there’s no reason at all that I can’t make that at home – cheaper and yummier. So I did. I made the Italian herb bread and spread it with the garlic butter you see below. You don’t have to use Italian herb bread though, you could even use slices of bread to make garlic toast (see below).

Garlic Butter

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• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 tbsp. minced garlic
• 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
• 1 tbsp. garlic salt
• 1 tsp. Italian seasoning
• 1/2 tsp. ground black pepper
• 1/4 tsp. ground paprika

Mix it all together with an electric hand mixer. Store in the refrigerator.

I spread this on Italian Herb bread and bake it on the top rack of the oven at 400F until lightly golden brown.

Or … to make garlic toast, spread it on both sides of sliced bread and then grill it in a frying pan until each side is golden brown.

Why I do what I do ~ I just re-read this post and realized I misquoted at the top. I said that we’re huge Italian food fans. That’s not entirely true. 2/3 of us are huge Italian food fans. My daughter won’t eat red sauce or anything mixed (casseroles, soups), also no ground beef at all – so that pretty much eliminates all Italian bakes that I make. Oh well, right?Have you liked Domestic Cents on Facebook yet?

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