- Garlic Ciabatta Bread -

One of my favorite ingredients to cook with is garlic. This has nothing to do with how it cooks, but with how it smells, and then of course, at the end, how it tastes! You put that together with the other best thing on the planet: bread, and life is complete. Garlic bread is done so many different ways. I've seen it cut crisscross across the top for a pull-apart style. Also cut down the top from end to end with delicious oil, garlic, and herbs poured in. I've also seen just plain old garlic bread, you know, the type with whole cloves of garlic baked inside the bread to eat? But my preferred method is to set the loaf on it's side and cut it through the middle, butter with a garlic and herb butter on one side, and olive oil up the other! 

Garlic Ciabatta Bread

Ingredients:
1 loaf of Ciabatta Bread
7 Tbs. room temperature Butter
1 clove Garlic
2 tsp. dried Oregano
2 T. Olive Oil

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Set bread on it's side and cut through the middle so you have a top and a bottom. 
Mix together butter, garlic, and oregano. Butter the top of the ciabatta loaf, Brush the bottom half with the olive oil. Put the two halves together and cut two inch slices. 

Wrap in the foil and bake in the oven for 15 minutes. Then plate up and enjoy!