This is an easy recipe and you can make a lot and keep some in the freezer. You do, however, need an oven to do it properly. If you don't have one it's still worth making up a load of garlic butter - you can spread it on bread, put it on boiled potatoes and other vegetables - even stick a blob on a bowl of hot soup. Here's the butter recipe first, then I'll give you the 'garlic bread' bit if you want to go all the way. I call it 'garlic butter' but I usually use sunflower margarine so don't be put off if you're vegan. I've said elsewhere but I'll repeat again here, all of my recipes can be adapted for a vegan diet and this is something I do actually do fairly frequently. (Even most of the recipes requiring cream can be made with a blend of soya yoghurt and vegetable oil).
The quantities given here will make a heap but you might even want to double the quantities. Keep it in the fridge in a jar or a margarine tub - it will keep for ages and just get better.
250g butter or margarine
1 cup of olive oil
A bunch of fresh parsley
8 - 10 cloves of garlic
Salt
Chop the parsley finely. Crush the garlic and chop it finely too. Mix all the ingredients together. No problem?
For garlic bread you need some small baguettes, or some big ones chopped into lengths that will fit into your oven. You also need some aluminium foil. Slice two-thirds of the way through the baguettes at 2 cm intervals and stuff a little garlic butter into each cut. Wrap the baguettes in foil (keep the seam to the top so the butter doesn't run out. You can freeze the bread like this - it'll keep for about three weeks and you can bake it straight from the freezer.
To bake the loaves, pre-heat your oven (don't ask me to what temperature - until it's really hot, okay?) then sling in the tin-foil wrapped loaves. They should take about 10 minutes. If you're having a party, don't do them all at once - they'll just get eaten by the people nearest the table/kitchen/whatever and they'll spend all night telling all the late arrivals how good the garlic bread was. Stash some loaves and fire them into the oven when everybody's starting to get pissed and hungry again - they'll love you for it. Cooked garlic bread is nice cold. You could take it on picnics.