Freezer Garlic Bread

Italian bread is on sale at the local grocery store. $1 for a BIG loaf. E & I eat a lot of garlic bread, but we know that fresh bakery bread doesn't keep very well if you leave it sitting out (yuck to moldy bread). We usually freeze it, and then thaw it, slice it, and make garlic bread.

Then I read a recipe for "Freezer Garlic Bread" and decided to try it.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 loaf of Italian bread
  
• 1/2 stick of butter, softened (our poor arteries!)
• 1/4 tsp. garlic powder
• aluminum foil
• freezer bag

Directions:
1. Cut the loaf into 1" slices
2. Blend the butter and garlic powder in a bowl
3. Butter one side of each slice of bread and stick them back together so that a buttered side of bread touches an unbuttered side of bread.
4. Use a brush to butter the outside of the loaf with butter (why not?)
5. Wrap the garlic bread in foil and then put it in a bag
6. Freeze it (or if you are going to eat it within 3 days, put it in the fridge)
7. Heat frozen bread at 375 degrees for 30 minutes

I prepared six 1/2 loaves of this. We are having one tonight and one with another dinner this week. 4 loaves are in the freezer for another week. It was a lot of work, but I would rather do that work all at once, than have to go through the process every time we want garlic bread. I just hope that it turns out :)