I love Garlic!  Everything I cook has a little bit of garlic in it.  Minced, chopped, sliced… any way that it will best fit the dish.  Growing up my mom normally used the garlic powder or garlic salt. When I first got married, my mother-in-law introduced me to fresh garlic.    After we would get home from the market, we would take our bushel of garlic and separate some cloves out in a little baskets to set aside for when we may need nicely chopped or sliced garlic  and then we would take some and throw it in the food processor to mince it up and put it in a jar in the fridge.  Instead of mincing the garlic every time we needed some for a dish, we could just pull the jar out of the fridge and get a spoonful and drop it in the dish.  I find my fresh garlic at the Sam’s Club closet to me.  I get a whole bag full of fresh garlic cloves for about $5. 

My favorite thing to do with garlic is make garlic bread.  But I’m not a fan of all types of garlic bread.  I like to taste the garlic & the toasted bread equally.  I decided that I wanted to come up with a good way to make it that I would truly enjoy.  So here it is:

Stacy’s Garlic Bread

French bread
2 large garlic cloves
freshly grated parmesan cheese
butter or margarine

Preheat your oven at 350.  Take the loaf of French bread and cut into thick slices. Butter one side of the slice of bread.  Put the slices of bread on a baking sheet and pop in the oven for 2 minutes.  This will help the bread get a little but toasted before you take add the garlic.   Take out the bread slices and set them aside for a few moments.  Take the garlic cloves and cut them in half.  Take a clove and rub it generously on the bread slice.  Add a generous amount of parmesan cheese on top.  Once you’ve done that with each slice, pop them back in the oven for another 3 –4 minutes.  You can reduce or add minutes depending on how ‘crunchy’ you like your garlic bread.

For those of you who share my love for Garlic there is an annual Garlic Festival coming up this summer in July.  For more details click here:

http://gilroygarlicfestival.com/

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