Homemade bread

Dh and I have been making fresh bread all week with the book: Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day So far we've made baguettes for bruschetta and roasted vegetable sandwiches. Olive bread which we had with salmon, garlic green beans, and salad ( I had Quorns breaded faux chicken instead of the fish, it's pretty darn yummy for soy). We made pizza dough with the olive oil bread recipe yesterday and tonight we're making calzones with the leftovers.

Turns out making bread is pretty easy! At least with the no starter method used in the book. It doesn't exactly take 5 minutes, more like 15 minutes for the initial dough and then another 15 minutes on baking day. After you mix up the flour, water, and yeast, you just leave your dough in a plastic tub in the fridge until you need it. They say you can leave it for up to 10 days... or more? But we usually go through it in about 3. The longer you leave it in the fridge the more sour dough it will become.

The breads we've made have been tasty but they lack the depth of a fine bakery. The quick method is a great starting point though and I think we will begin moving into more complicated traditional methods once we're done with this book.

The only problem we've had, is that our bread stone broke in half, already!

Have you ever made bread?