Hi, guys! Haven't cooked anything in a couple of days (we've been eating leftovers! LOL) but we decided today to have soup and garlic toast. I'm not touching the soup yet, but I promised to share the garlic toast recipe the other day, so here it is.

If you like garlic toast or those garlic bagel chips, this is a really yummy alternative. (Also, much cheaper, considering that those garlic bagel chips can cost up to $3 or $4 per little tiny bag.)

For this recipe, you're going to need a basting brush, the type you'd use to brush barbecue sauce on chicken. You'll also need a saucepan (obvs.) and a cookie sheet covered in a layer of aluminum foil (for easier cleanup). The other thing you'll need is a garlic press.

Really Thin Garlic Toast

INGREDIENTS:

French loaf (can be a full size loaf or those smaller sub-sandwich type rolls)
1 stick of butter or margarine
Several cloves of garlic
Dried parsley flakes in a bowl

PREPARATION:

Preheat your oven to 400 and put the rack up to the center. Melt butter in saucepan. While the butter is melting, slice your French loaf really thin (see the picture below for an example of just how thin to slice it). Once the butter is melted, use the garlic press to squish your garlic into the butter, and let it sit for a bit to get the garlic flavor out into the butter.

Line your French loaf slices out on the cookie sheet. Use the basting brush to brush the garlic butter on the bread. Now take a pinch of the dried parsley flakes and grind them up between your fingers, sprinkling them all over the buttery bread.

Flip the bread over and repeat this process on the back side. Now pop it into the oven. Bake for about 5 minutes, then take it out and look at it. If it's toasted nicely on both sides, it's done; if not, flip the slices over and pop it back in for a few minutes (2 or 3). Check it again. If it's toasted, it's done.

This is REALLY good with soup, especially homemade vegetable beef stew, or just by itself as a munchy snack. NOTE: You can also make croutons using this recipe. To do that, use regular sliced white bread and cut it into good-sized cubes, rather than thin-slicing French bread. You can also thin-slice bagels to make actual bagel chips... this recipe is very flexible. :)

The sliced bread