This is not the typical way of preparing garlic bread. Rather the lazy way… or not. But if I have sliced white bread, this is what I normally do. While toasting bread, I fry chopped garlic on butter until aromatic. Spread the garlic and butter mixture on toasted bread. Cut them into bite-size squares and serve with coffee or hot chocolate for breakfast. Crunch crunch. Yum yum.
Lasang Pinoy, Sundays.
I am not a professional cook. My only claim to having a culinary background is a short stint as my dad’s teen ‘sous chef’ in his carinderia ages ago. Dad ran small eateries since I was a young kid - serving standard ‘turo-turo’ food ranging from the likes of menudo, adobo, pritong isda, dinuguan, binagoongan, bopis, munggo, pinakbet and giniling to merienda fares like goto, ginataan, pancit bihon, halu-halo and saging con yelo.
My father, a farmer in his hometown before working his way to becoming an accountant, definitely influenced my cooking in a lot of ways than I thought. My siblings and I were raised in a backyard full of fruit trees and vegetable garden. We spent weekends and the summer breaks running around with ducks, chickens, goats and pigs. I had wonderful memories of gathering eggs, butchering chickens, selling vegetables and the sweet aroma of preserved fruits. But my love for art led me to a degree in Architecture. Just few months after getting my license, I went abroad and lived independently at age 23. Definitely no maid, no cook, and a totally different food culture. Along the way I met lots of friends and spent what seemed a lifetime learning new tricks and recipes.
Now living in Auckland, I am a work-from-home mum who juggles time between work, fun and family - in pursuit of work-life balance. No matter how busy I am, I love the idea of cooking for my family. My blog chronicles home cooking greatly influenced by life outside my home country from Southeast Asia to Beijing and Auckland. And most of the time, being busy also means easy (sometimes quick), affordable meals.
Yum! Now I’m craving for those! Tamang tama I have garlicpowder pa, mas ok ba pag buong garlic?
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Hi Gmirage.
I don’t use garlic powder. Pero palagay ko pwede din naman yan I’m sure pareho lang din ang resulta
oo nga, iba nga ito because you fried the garlic first before you spread it on the bread. looks delicious! will try this (the crunchiness is a come on). ganda ng fotos!
this would’ve been perfect for my pesto pasta a while ago:) yum!
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i use garlic powder naman when i’m in the mood for garlic bread. sarap ‘to sa pasta.:D
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Oh! I haven’t seen this way to make garlic bread yet! Ang nakita ko you rub the fresh garlic on the toasted bread lang… this one is definitely more delish!
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Most of the time, solve na ako sa garlic bread and coffee. But I buy them, have yet to prepare my own GB.
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delicious…especially with spaghetti…or even pancit bihon..yumyumyum..!
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perfect for pasta
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Garlic bread! We love this bread, ako I personally like this with thick soup, yum!
Have a great week,Iska!
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this garlic bread with your fetuccine alfredo.. now that’s what I’m talking about! LOL!
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my the way, my other trick to do a garlic bread is to toast the bread with a bit of olive oil, and rub fresh garlic on the bread as soo as I get them out of the toaster over. This saves me a lot of time, yet the bread has that garlic taste and smell that we like…
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masarap pa rin ang garlic bread kahit paano pa ito gawin…
Now this is how to make garlic bread sexy – hahaha! Thanks for sharing, Iska!
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I love the presentation. So pretty! and those fried garlic… yummy!!
lazy or typical, basta lasang garlic, garlic bread na! the last time i made garlic bread, i simply melted some butter, added fresh garlic, then used a pastry brush to spread the garlic/butter mixture onto the pieces of bread. then i popped them in the toaster. hee hee. mas lazy pa yung version ko. no garlic frying! haha!
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haha! i do that before. kaya lang tamad maglinis ng butter/garlic sa toaster hahaha!
Hi Iska & Erwin!
What a selfless way to share your genius.
I don’t exactly love Filipino & Chinese foods but I crave for anything “kripsy” in pork & chicken which I found embodied in your Lechon Kauali, Krispy Pata, Chicharon, etc.
Are you not “shamelessly” albeit scrumptiously “polluting” the clean & crisp New Zealand aire with your wonderful concoctions, dizzyingly mesmerizing the Maoris and some of the few stiff-upper-lipped remnants of the British Commonwealth [both in Canada & N.Z.] into the direction of your handsomely appointed kitchens? I love the fusion of Filipino culinary genius & know-how interspersed with the staid culinary roots of somewhere up there [namely Canada] and down under [namely New Zealand]. I adore your unabashed style of fusion never forgetting the food culture you’ve grown up with, giving pride to our legacy whether it be kujol maybe, chicharon bulaklak siguro, goto o lungs ng vaca na niluluto’ng bopis.
I’d love to gift you both with the new book launched, “Kulinarya” , authored by some of our better culinary figures on Phil. soil; but then you would have to claim it yourselves when you come over to Metro Manila and inform me beforehand.
Itului n’yo lang ang pag-share at pag-sulat, this unselfish way of being proud to be from where you came from. You need not be at home here or have a PI passport to prove your patriotism & enthusiasm for having been once a Filipino.
It is never said nor advertised. [You need not be one of the 50 Best Food Blogs in the Jnternet. I my book you are already winners.] We feel it. I do. I see it on your fotos and in your pen.
Congratulations and many thanks.
Admirably sincerely,
frikadellenet@yaho.de
Wow! That’s a long one
Thank you so much, Wenceslao!