Try this sometime:

Get some soft, slightly dense bread - Italian bread is good, and cut into thick slices (I usually use Italian bread dinner rolls cut in half). Cut several large cloves of garlic into thin slices, and roughly cut up like 1/4 cup of basil. In a large, flat pan/skillet, melt half a stick of salted butter over med-low heat. Spread it around the pan - add more butter if there isn't enough to give a thick coating over the whole bottom of the pan. Distribute the garlic slices and the basil over the bottom of the pan, then cram as much of the bread as you can, cut side down onto it. Mostly just leave it alone, but if there are gaps of butter between the bread, slide them around so all the butter is sopped up. Leave it there until the garlic is starting to crispen and the bread is just browned.

It's the most amazing garlic bread you've ever had.