Instead of letting it go to waste, I decided to use it to make croutons.
After for looking online for crouton recipes, we finally decided to kind of use bits and pieces of each recipe to make our own.
We started by preheating the oven to 300 degrees F.
So we sliced the remaining loaf of bread into 1-inch slices.
Next, we gathered the ingredients to finish the croutons:
1 cup extra virgin olive oil
1 cup butter (or margarine) melted
1/2 cup minced garlic
Italian seasoning mix*
Mmmmmmm, garlic!
In one small sauce pan we combined the olive oil and garlic and simmered for approximately 10 minutes.
Next we added the melted butter and mixed it until it was completely combined.
While I was mixing, Jon diced the slices of bread.
He did a really good job. Knowing my track record in the kitchen today I probably would have cut my fingers. Or something.
In a big mixing bowl, we tossed the bread cubes in the oil/butter/garlic mixture.
Then spread the drowned bread cubes were dumped onto the cooking stone. Once on the baking stone I sprinkled them with Italian seasoning mix. More or less according to your tastes. Ours were pretty strong.
After I cooked them for 5 minutes in the oven, I decided to switch them over to a wire rack over a metal baking sheet. That would allow the excess oil and butter to drain.
My advice - go straight to the wire rack over the metal baking sheet or baking stone.
I should have.
In the end, they cooked in the oven for 25 minutes at 300 degrees F.
Within 2 hours they were half gone.
I'm afraid to go see if there are any left now.
The boys are on fall break right now and no food is safe in our home.
At 10:30 this morning I caught the middle one making himself a cup of coffee.
At least now I know why I'm out of coffee...I'm really just glad it wasn't me that drank it all!!
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