Garlic Toasted Bread

This is a Drennan family favorite!  Goes nicely with the Meatball and Spaghetti, Fettuccine Alfredo and so many Italian dishes I will post in the future.. Oh and the Tomato Basil soup (if you havn't tried the Tomato Basil, you really need to)!

It's best right out of the oven because it's all hot, crispy and buttery!  It's hard to eat just one!  On days you make this you just don't count the calories or fat ;)

If you don't have Lawry's garlic salt with the green lid......ya need to get it!  It has sea salt, garlic and parsley.  I buy it in the big container at Sam's then I fill bottles like the one below  and I probably go through the large one 2 or 3 times a year!  I use it in just about everything I cook.  I always say it's my little secret! 



 
If  I am making the whole loaf I will ask the bakery at the grocery store to cut the bread for me when I am buying it.
They just put the whole loaf in their cutter and it's done in no time!  You can also cut it yourself just make sure you don't make the slices too thick and make sure and use a serrated knife


Melt about a tablespoon of butter then sprinkle some Lawry's garlic salt
onto the butter.... Sprinkle lightly just to where you can see it


The hotter the pan gets the butter just starts to bubble like it's doing in this pan!  I will just place the sliced bread on top of all the bubbly goodness!



Oven on high broil...keep an eye on it... see the butter bubbling on top of that bread!
You can always turn the broil on low if you want


Watch the back ones because sometimes they get done faster! 
Make sure to flip and toast on each side


Oh my it's so buttery and has this crispness when you bite into it!








 
1 loaf of French bread  (most stores will cut it for you in thin slices if you want )
Real Butter (about 2 sticks)
Lawry’s garlic salt (with green lid)


In a pan melt butter and some garlic salt once it get bubbly add bread
making sure both sides gets the butter & garlic. 

Turn the broiler on low or if your careful on high  (I'm guilty of burning a batch or two ;)

Place on cookie sheet and toast on both sides.  Keep a good eye on it so that it doesn’t burn! 

Bread can be sauteed the night before (or a couple of days before) and stored in bag then toasted next day.. If the slices stick together (from being cold) just place in microwave for 30 sec and it will come out nicely.




Fettuccine Alfredo

So I have never been a white sauce kinda girl so Fettuccine Alfredo was not on my food list!  I was catering a rehearsal dinner once and they wanted Fettuccine Alfredo!  I called my sister Julie because I knew she makes it alot and her family raves about hers!  I made some at home (a trial run) and told myself I would not eat any but would ask someone to try it.  I love garlic so much that the smell was making me want to try it.  To my surprise I liked it!  It has a buttery garlicky taste to it!  I'll admit that I probalby add more butter than it ask for. .  I still don't eat Alfredo anywhere else...still don't like creamy things... but I do love this recipe!

Oh, and on the parmesan cheese it works better with the more powdery kind ... the freshly grated cheese melts and makes a mess and the other seems to help thicken it... but do top it with freshly grated parmeasan cheese!

I also us Lawry’s Garlic Salt in place of regular salt…. I use that stuff for sooooo many things!

Oh and I also sometime use Rotisserie Chicken, just the white meat part. 

1 1lb fettuccine
2 T butter
2 garlic cloves minced
2 cups whipping cream
½ cup grated parmesan cheese 
Salt & pepper to taste
2 T parsley

Cooked chicken sliced or chopped  ( I grill or saute' in a pan)

Melt butter in sauce pan add garlic cloves when sautéed add cream,
Parmesan cheese and parsley stir and simmered about 15 minutes.
add salt & pepper to taste.

Add cooked chicken then drain noodles and place both chicken And fettuccine in pan and toss well till all is coated. 










Add butter and garlic to a heated pan

                                         Then add heavy whipping cream and Parmesan Cheese

                                                                       Stir till


It will start to thicken, the recipe says 15 minutes but I found it’s a little bit less time like 10 minutes or so just wait for it to thicken, stirring so that it doesn’t