Garlic Toast

What's a pasta dinner without garlic bread?  Not just any garlic bread but that wonderful buttery garlic toast you buy in long rolls at the grocery store.  I can't imagine any Italian meal without it, but with cooking for 1 and sharing a fridge and freezer with 2 more I also can't imagine where I'd keep the leftovers.  That's when I developed this quick and easy recipe for homemade garlic toast, and guess what?  You probably have all the ingredients in your kitchen right now.

First take your bread, I always have sliced wheat bread in my fridge for sandwiches but you can use whatever your favorite is.  Generously butter it, and I mean be very generous.  Think at least double what you would normally use for plain old bread and butter.  Then take some garlic powder (or if you have the extra time you can mince fresh garlic) and sprinkle on top.  Gently shake your bread so the powder is evenly distributed and sticks to the butter.  Pop the bread in a toaster oven set to Toast on Medium and within a few minutes you have super-buttery garlic bread just like the frozen bread you're used to.

The trick to really decadent garlic bread is how the butter is soaked into the bread, which is why you butter FIRST instead of after.  Also, the reason you butter twice as much as normal is so there's enough to soak in and still leave a layer on top with the garlic.  And come on, who doesn't love more butter?

Garlic Toast

Cook time: 2 minutes

• slices of your favorite bread
• butter
• garlic powder (or minced garlic)

Generously butter your bread slices.  Use at least double your normal bread-and-butter amount.
Sprinkle garlic powder evenly over slices.
Toast in a toaster oven on Medium.