Meals Made Ahead: Freezer Garlic Bread

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Freezer Garlic Bread

Very easy. Much less expensive than purchasing frozen garlic bread, especially if you can purchase the bread on sale. Recipe adapted from momsbudget.com.

1 loaf of French bread
1/2 cup butter, softened (NOT melted)
2 cloves of garlic, pressed

Make width-wise cuts in French bread, about an inch apart, not quite cutting all the way through. Mix the softened butter with the garlic. Spread the butter mixture between the slices. Wrap in aluminum foil and then place in a freezer bag.

To serve, remove from freezer and remove plastic wrap. Place in oven preheated to 350 degrees for 15 minutes. Open the foil wrapper to allow steam to vent. Increase oven to 450 degrees and continue heating for another 10 minutes. Serve.

Hint: If you have a Jimmy John's sub shop near you, they sell their day-old bread loafs for fifty cents each!

Nutrition information from SparkPeople: Meals Made Ahead cookbook: (assumes 1 pound loaf of bread and 12 slices/servings)

Cals: 172.1 | Fat: 8.8 g | Protein: 3.4 g | Carbs: 19.8 g | Fiber: 1.1 g

1 comment:

TristyApril 5, 2009 at 6:06 PM
Delicious! I usually try to make 2 loaves, & freeze in 1/2 loaf portions for my family of 4.
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We are a group of moms who get together about once a month or so to cook Meals Made Ahead.

Meals Made Ahead are great because it's nice to always have something in the freezer for those nights that are busy, those nights when you can't think of anything to make, those nights when you have nothing to cook with because you didn't feel like dragging two screaming kids through the grocery store, those nights when you just don't feel like cooking.

Sure, we could do this on our own. But it's much more fun to cook with friends (and share the clean up!)

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"If a woman could see the sparks of light going forth from her fingertips when she is cooking, and the substance of light that goes into the food she handles, she would be amazed to see how much of herself she charges into the meals that she prepares for her family and friends. It is one of the most important and least understood activities of life, that the radiation and feeling that go into the preparation of food affect everyone who partakes of it. And this activity should be unhurried, peaceful, and happy because the substance of the lifestream performing the service flows into that food and is eaten, and actually becomes part of the energy of the receiver. It would be better that an individual did not eat at all than to eat food that has been prepared under a feeling of anger, apathy, resentment, depression, or any outward pressure."
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