An ode to ready-made garlic baguette
With an expensive product or complicated preparation method, you can quickly impress everyone, but sometimes it’s a simple, humble product that you’re actually craving the most. Right? That’s why today, an ode to a product that belongs in your freezer as standard: garlic baguette.
Are friends coming over for drinks? Then of course you first visit the delicatessen, make hummus, pesto and tapenade yourself, and cycle past the bakery for the very best bread. Well, that’s an option, but you’re better off simply getting a ready-made baguette with garlic butter.
Almost free
For €1.02, you get two whole loaves at Appie, if you go for the cheapest variety. The ‘luxury’ version costs €1.33 there, and for €1.43 you can even get a multigrain version. But who are you kidding? Ready-made garlic bread isn’t luxury, and if you want to be healthy, you should steer well clear of it. In this case, if you ask me: the cheaper, the better.
I always bake the bread just a little longer than indicated on the packaging, so it gets really nicely browned. Then it’s time to attack. If you don’t end up with those delightfully greasy little fingers, or a tiny bit of butter doesn’t drip down your chin, you’re doing something wrong. Mmmm.
Whole baguette
The very best thing about garlic bread like this? The bread is much lighter than normal bread. Don’t get me wrong, it’s absolutely not light in terms of calories, but it hardly seems to fill you up. You can serve a package containing two as part of a drinks platter for several people. You can also lie on the sofa as a couple and each eat an entire baguette. In both cases, you’ll have the evening of your life.
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