roasted garlic butter

When we had dinner with friends, I made french bread to go with the lasagna.  I soon realized that I was craving garlic bread.  To be honest, we do not have any of the easy foods to create this wonderful comfort food.  So, I went about making roasted garlic butter.

Roasted Garlic Butter

1 head of garlic

1 teaspoon of good olive oil

1/2 cup of butter, room temperature

Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.

Slice the top of the garlic off, exposing the cloves.  Drizzle the olive oil in there.  Bake for 30 minutes or until soft.  I just usually call it good at 30 minutes, turn the oven off, and let it sit longer.  I also use a toaster oven for this step and put the temperature at 300 or 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

When the garlic is cool enough to touch, put the butter in a bowl.  Squish out all the garlic from the paper around it.  This is messy!  Take a fork and mix it well.

I do believe the four of us ate almost all of this on warm sourdough french bread.  Simple decadence!