Day 20: Texas Garlic Toast

As the weekend continued to go on, so did the snow...blowing and crazy cold!!  Not wanting to get bundled up, warm up the car, going out in the cold to the restaurant and repeating the process on the way back home....plus doing it all with a potty training 3 yr old...I think NOT!!  We decided to stay home and make a night of it.  Spaghetti dinner followed by a family friendly move.  All was going well until....we discovered that we had NO sprinkle cheese aka grated Parmesan which Little T loves with his pasta and we needed it for the bread...Momma S headed to the store.  Thankfully it isn't too far from her house.  Once we got our sprinkle cheese we went back on track!!

This is a recipe for Texas toast that you would or could freeze...just like the toast you buy in the box.  Since I had Texas toast left over from the french toast casserole  what better way to use it!!  We made enough to have 4 whole pieces of toast with dinner and freeze 5 for later.

I am rating this recipe a 4:  It was easy, tasted delicious and it was kid friendly...Little T got involved too!!

The original recipe can be found at themakeyourownzone.com

Ingredients:
6 slices Texas toast
1/3 c grated margarine spread (I used butter)
1/4 c grated Parmesan cheese
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp dried parsley

Step 1:  Mix all ingredients together, stir until well combined.  Spread some on each slice of bread.  Lay bread on a cookie sheet and place in freezer.  Once the bread is froze, you can stack them and package them in a Ziploc bag.

To cook your frozen toast: Preheat oven to 425 degrees.  Lay the toast on a cookie sheet and cook for about 5 minutes.  Flip toast if desired to brown both sides.

Making this toast is much cheaper than buying the boxed one and just as tasty!!  This recipe, if you make a large batch using the whole loaf of Texas toast, you can make enough slices to replace 4 boxes.  The cost for the Texas toast was $2.97 at Walmart & the Great Value brand Texas toast (8 slices) is $2.00.  Sounds like a good deal to me!

Note:  If you're like me and cooked some right away I heated my oven to 350 and cooked for about 4 minutes per side.

This is Little T spreading...spreading...spreading the butter on the toast.  That's what he keep saying as he was doing it!!  I have a little chef on my hands...he LOVES ti help cook.  The best part is when he helps us cook dinner or put some of it together he ends up eating more and enjoys talking about what he did to get dinner ready.  Even better...he likes to help with the dishes too!!

Can't wait to see how the frozen batch turns out!!