Just in time for your Labor Day cookout!! A recipe for a roasted garlic and thyme butter that will make your taste buds sing! One of the main reasons I love an herb garden is how readily available fresh herbs are for whatever tickles my fancy. No running out to the store because you want to zest up your pasta or homemade soup. It’s just a quick walk outside with your pruners and you’re in business. One of my favorite things to make with herbs is herb butter. It is so simple to do and when added to steak, makes a mouthwatering meal! And you can freeze it! Win-win!
Last Thursday we decided to spend our girl’s night at my house and make a delicious meal: steak, baked potatoes, asparagus, and farm-fresh corn. It was only natural that we’d want to make an herb butter to accompany the steak. Our favorite is this roasted garlic and thyme butter recipe – it’s delicious! So, with music playing, drinks in hand, and tasks assigned – we got to making our dinner!
Not Exactly Prep, but done first!
When we arrived, the first thing we did was take the butter out from the fridge (duh!) so that it could reach room temperature. We used Kerrygold because of its flavorfulness, but any butter will work. While we were waiting for that, we made our cocktails and enjoyed an appetizer I had prepared with ingredients from my garden. Fresh clipped basil served with tomatoes drizzled with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Salt & pepper. The cucumbers were topped with a cream cheese that was mixed to taste with fresh parsley, basil, oregano and dashed with onion and garlic powder. Sprinkle of salt. Plopped on the cream cheese was a julienned scallion. All of this came from my garden (are you starting to see how handy an herb garden can be?) Healthy and yummy. Gone within minutes, lol!
The recipe for the butter is quick, easy and can be customized to your taste. There is a video tutorial on our Instagram, but this is how we prepared it:
Roasted Garlic & Thyme Herb Butter Recipe
Cut garlic 
Salt & pepper to taste 
30 mins at 425
- Cut the top off of garlic and drizzle with olive oil. Salt & pepper.
- Wrap with parchment paper and put in oven preheated to 425 for 30-35 mins.
- While garlic is roasting and butter is softening, sing at the top of your lungs Paradise By the Dashboard Lights. Though this step isn’t mandatory and you can choose whatever reminiscent song is to your liking, it certainly made the process fun. Now that I think of it, our nights spent at home tend to be a bit crazy. If we’re not dancing to something Alexa is spitting out, then we’re singing into wooden spoons. 😂
- Once garlic is roasted, pulled the cloves out into a bowl to muddle.
Clip Thyme 
Pull Thyme from stems 
Muddle with garlic& butter
- Add softened butter.
- Muddle
- Ooops – at one point during the singing part mentioned in step 3, go outside and clip a good amount of Thyme from your garden. Pull leaves off and set aside
- Add Thyme to your muddled butter. Be generous but season to your liking.
- Add Salt & Pepper and continue to muddle.
- Once throughly mixed – spoon butter onto parchment paper.
- Roll and twist the ends to seal.
- Freeze.
Spoon onto parchment 
Wrap & freeze 
Slice when needed!
And that’s it! Super, super easy and super, super yummy! And fun! One of the things that is great about making things from scratch is getting away from the mind-set that it’s work. It’s not! Doing activities like this with friends or your children is fun, informational, and bonding! The food and yumminess will be gone and digested in seconds. But the memories from making it will last a life-time.
Trust me!
And don’t forget: “Alexa: Play music from the 80’s.” 😉
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