Crusty Italian Garlic Bread

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 loaf italian bread (make sure it is a nice loaf, not your supermarket bakery loaf!) or 1 loaf french bread (make sure it is a nice loaf, not your supermarket bakery loaf!)
• 3/4 cup butter (not margarine!)
• 6 garlic cloves, chopped very finely
• 1/4 cup fresh parsley
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 3 teaspoons basil
• 1/4 teaspoon oregano

Recipe

• 1 in a medium size bowl add butter and allow butter to sit for a couple of hours to come to room temperature. you can also microwave until it is at room temperature as well, but do not allow butter to melt!
• 2 preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 3 add the garlic and parsley to the butter and mix well.
• 4 rub the basil and oregano between the palms of your hands to release the flavor and throw in the bowl. mix content of the bowl well.
• 5 remove about 1/3 of the garlic butter spread to use later.
• 6 cut your bread in half the long way. spread about 2/3 of the garlic butter spread onto the halves of the bread. place each half directly on your oven rack and bake for 10 minutes.
• 7 remove from oven and allow bread to cool until you can handle the loaves.
• 8 turn oven to broil.
• 9 slice bread into thick slices (about 2" thick). place bread on cookie sheet and spread with the extra garlic butter spread.
• 10 place cookie sheet in oven and broil bread slices for 3 - 5 minutes, or until nicely browned to your taste. make sure to watch very carefully so bread does not burn.
• 11 place a large clean kitchen towel in a bread basket and wrap the towel over the bread until served but no more than a couple of minutes or bread could get soggy!
• 12 in my house, this serves about 3 or 4 because we eat this bread like crazy!