Nothing fancy, just a reminder that the best things in life are easy and cheap(er)!

Homemade basic white bread machine loaf, whipped butter with fresh minced garlic, dried italian seasoning and salt. Gently kissed at 350 until the butter melts into the bread, finished on a low broil until your favorite shade of brown.

  • tensorpudding@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 month ago

    I like your recipe but I’ll cop to buying garlic bread from the grocery when I really feel like paying to not have to use the oven for yet another thing today.

    • HumanOnEarth@lemmy.caOP
      3·
      1 month ago

      I may have been exaggerating just a bit!

      But how are you heating up that store bought bread?? Or do you have pre cooked garlic bread where you are??? (Serious question)

      • tensorpudding@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 month ago

        Ah I was confused when I wrote that, you still need to bake it but it just becomes one less thing to worry about timing to have it complete with the rest of the meal.

        • HumanOnEarth@lemmy.caOP
          2·
          1 month ago

          You have to time the store bought bread, no? 😂

          I’m not trying to be a jerk! But I’m thinking maybe it’s more the extra steps involved? Of those, baking and slicing a homemade loaf and chopping garlic are the two most cumbersome steps.

          If so, use a store bought pre sliced loaf (0 extra time) whatever is cheap. Invest in a garlic press (pays for itself with cheaper garlic breads) and use that to quickly pulverize garlic directly into the butter (30 seconds, let’s call it 90 to be generous and account for getting rid of the peel, etc), the Italian seasoning and salt is literally seconds of work. Mash for like 8 seconds.

          Spread on bread. If the butter is nice and soft (sub tub margarine for convenience if you can accept the tradeoff in flavor, or are vegan… it mixes easily) you can do this in 90 seconds as well.

          Let’s round to 200 seconds. 3 min, 20 sec and you’re now at the same point convenience-wise as store bought, uncooked garlic bread. And while the store bought loaf will still cost you at least 6x more than baking a loaf, you’ll still come out a bit ahead cost wise. Fresh garlic makes the biggest difference here though.

          Bonus:

          • easy for kids to make and they generally love it
          • makes your house smell amazing…premade always has some kind of sour smell, I’m guessing citric acid to preserve the garlic (like the red headed step-child of home cooking…jarlic.)
          • bread excluded, you know exactly what’s going in your body and where it came from

          And this isn’t all directed at you specifically! Just a friendly nudge to all potential home cooks.