Garlic butter turns ordinary bread, steak, pasta, and roasted vegetables into something people ask you about. If you have butter and garlic sitting in your kitchen right now, you are roughly five minutes away from a spread that rivals anything sold in a jar at the store. Learning how to make garlic butter is one of those small kitchen wins that pays off again and again, because once you master the base, you can bend it in a dozen directions. You can also use this spread to make garlic butter Parmesan pasta, where the warm noodles help melt the butter