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Unless you hate garlic, I’m pretty sure you’d love garlic bread. And if you make your own, you’ll never head out to buy those frozen ones again. I guarantee. It’s so easy and so much tastier. I like mine cut in strips. Then I’ll dip them in my chicken stew/ beef stew/ Western soups. Mmmph. Heavenly.

UPDATE (2014): Even my kids love it!

Easy Garlic Bread Sticks

Garlic Bread Sticks

Author: Simply Mommie

Prep time: 5 mins

Cook time: 5 mins

Total time: 10 mins

Serves: 2

Ingredients

2 slices of plain bread
30g garlic (sliced/ minced)
30g unsalted butter (I used Lurpak)

Instructions

Cut the bread into 1- 1.5cm strips.
Melt the butter and saute the garlic in it (the smell is HEAVENLY). Do not brown the garlic as it becomes bitter.
Toss the bread strips in and coat them with the garlic butter on one side.
Arrange the bread strips and toast them in the oven for about 4 minutes.
Leave them in the oven if you prefer totally crispy sticks (we LOVE this). If you prefer them to be soft, take them out immediately after 4 minutes. Toasting them for only 4 minutes prevents the garlic and bread from burning and yet I can still achieve really crispy garlic bread sticks!
UPDATED: If using an Airfryer, arrange the bread sticks in the Airfryer basket. Place a steaming stand on top of them to prevent flying and burning. Fry at 180degC for 4-5 minutes.
Serve bread sticks with soup/ stew (or you can eat it on its own! - YUM!).

Notes

Add any herbs of your choice to the garlic butter before coating the bread if preferred.

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Christmas Eve 09

Christmas eve evening was spent at my mum’s place where we mingled, ate delish food, sang Christmas carols, ate mouth-watering food… ooh, did I mention eat again? Lots of eating took place that evening and I ate my fill without feeling guilty coz I climbed 60 storeys before going over to my mum’s. I knew I was gonna feast so I’d better ‘walk’ for my supper first so I could eat to my heart’s content…

This year, alongside my mummy’s absolutely yummy home-cooked food, my aunty ordered roast beef and two types of ham from Hyatt… and we also had two logcakes, of which one was an ice-cream cake. Honestly, I’m not sure why we needed to have two cakes when one would have sufficed, but oh well, I ate both anyway and they were nice and I’m certainly not complaining. 😀

Here’s a snapshot of what Alicia busied herself with that day during the party:

She usually hates to wear sunglasses or anything for that matter, on her head. But as you can see, she’s very contentedly wearing my niece’s sunglasses on her head.