Amazing Bread

Shawna from Daily Deliciousness recommended this bread to me after I made the first bread that was posted on her blog. She had said this one was much better, and boy was she right. This bread is the simplest no-knead bread ever and was so good! I am setting up another loaf as we type. Although it is super easy.....it is also super time consuming. It's all about patience with this one. The recipe comes from Mark Bittman of the NY Times who got it from Sullivan Street Bakery. I got the detailed instructions from here.


Ingredients:

3 cups bread flour
1/4 tsp. of active yeast
1 tsp. salt (3/4 tsp. kosher salt)
1 1/2 cups very warm water

Mix ingredients together in a large bowl. Dough will be very loose. Cover and let sit for 12-20 hours (see...time consuming!)

Dough should roughly double in size. It will still be sticky. Poor dough onto floured surface. Form into a ball shaped loaf. Place back into a small greased bowl. The other recipe recommends putting dough ball into a floured towl. This did NOT work for me, I ended up with a dough covered towel after trying to get the dough into the pot. Let dough sit for 2 hours.

1/2 before the time is up for the dough to rest, place a 5 or 6 qt. oven safe pot with lid into the oven. Heat oven to 450 degrees. Be sure your pot or container can withstand this heat. After 30 minutes of your pot in the oven and two hours of your dough rising, you are finally ready to bake! Pull out the hot pan from the oven. Plop the dough into the bottom of the pan. Shake the pan to even out the dough blob. Bake in oven with lid on for 30 minutes. Remove lid and bake for an additional 15-20 minutes, or until golden brown.

Artisan Bread and Daily Ramblings

It kind of looks like a heart shape doesn't it?

Artisan Bread

I came across this recipe on one of my "net" friend's blog: Daily Deliciousness. It was pretty easy to make and tastes really good. She actually ended up giving a different bread recipe that is similar but she said tastes a lot better. So, once I use up this dough, I will go ahead and try this better recipe. And well, if it's better than this bread, that it must be amazing, because both the hubby and I thought this was really good.

As for the rest of daily living.....last night both Jim and I were awoken from a dead sleep by a huge crash of thunder. I was in the middle of a dream actually and just bolted awake. Scared the living daylights out of me! That was about 3:30 am. And about 10 minutes later while Jim snoozed away, I was still tossing and turning....until about 5:00 am or so. Not cool. So I'm a little sleepy today nonetheless.

It is super windy today, and it's garbage day. Never a good combination. I lugged all the trash out this morning and about 10 bags of yard waste, yuck. When I got home from work this afternoon, all our cans were strewn in the middle of the road. We still have a lid to one of the cans that is MIA. I looked all around for it, it's probably chillin' in someones yard halfway down the street. I sent a small note to the association, so we will see if I get it back!

This damn cold still hasn't fully gone away yet either. I am still dealing with a runny nose and a phlemmy (sp?) throat. So I am irked by this and want this to GO AWAY! I'm hoping by next Monday I can finally get my butt exercising again. I really want to go out for a couple of runs before our 5K coming up at the end of the month. Wish me luck.