Instructions

1. Blend olive oil and salt to taste in a ceramic bowl. Add minced garlic, pepper, red pepper flakes and dry herbs, such as basil or rosemary, to the oil if you want your snack toasts to have more flavor. You also can make dry snack toast with no oil or flavor at all.

2. Slice the bread. Use your serrated knife -- which has a ripple edge especially designed to cut foods like bread -- to make slices approximately 1/4-inch to 1/2-thick, depending on your preference. If your bread is already sliced, slice it in strips or into pieces on a diagonal, which gives the snack toasts a gourmet look.

3. Lay the bread slices next to each other on an ungreased baking sheet. Coat the top side of the bread slices with the olive oil blend using a pastry brush. You can brush both sides of the bread with oil, depending on how rich and oily you want your snack toasts to be.

4. Place the baking sheets in an oven preheated to around 350 degrees Fahrenheit and bake one side of the toasts for about seven to 10 minutes or until light brown. Take the baking sheet out of the oven and flip the snack toasts over with tongs to brown on the bottom side.