I have decided to go back to the basics. I am cooking foods that I grew up with and that remind me of home. One of those is garlic bread. Our family had a rotation of meals, like most families. It looked mostly like: roasted chicken, vegetables and potatoes; or pasta pesto, sausage and vegetables; or spaghetti and meatballs and vegetables. We ate a lot of Italian-inspired food. Along with that, we always had bread. Great for cleaning the bowl with or dipping in soup. I did not realize growing up how lucky we were to have good grocery store bread. I assumed that the chewy and crunchy ciabatta we grew up with was everywhere. I started cooking for myself in college and realized I was sadly mistaken. Hence, my venture into bread baking. I wanted to make the ciabatta I had missed. In reality, that typically failed, my ability to make a decent ciabatta has not yet come to fruition and the loaves I have gotten in the past have been inedible. I am not sure what the ciabatta future holds, but I am not holding my breath. What I am ultimately trying to get at here is that you need good bread to make good garlic bread, not any loaf will do. I used a baguette for this recipe, specifically the Trader Joe's ciabatta baguette, which is better than the regular baguette in my humble opinion. This is the best grocery store bread I have found, and unless I am making sandwiches, it is my go to. I use it for croutons (or leftover homemade bread, but I am pretty sure most people do not have that just laying around their house), for garlic bread, for cheeseboards, to dip into baked brie and a number of other delectable creations. Other than starting with good bread, the other trick is to wrap your baguette or loaf before it goes into the oven, the result is a moist and delicious garlic bread, this is not going to be crunchy, but it will be totally worth it. If you wanted it crunchy you could broil it after baking it, but I have never tried that so beware, also report back, I would like to know if it improves it (though I very much doubt it). Garlic Bread
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