Soup by Trader Joe's, bread by me

I know there has been a lot of talk about Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day and I have to say that it is totally worth it!  I've posted before about my success with the basic recipe, but I had to post again since I am finding out just how awesome this concept is.

First of all, this time I didn't bring out my stand mixer -- instead I just put all the ingredients in a bowl and gave it a good stir with a wooden spoon.  This is the same bowl I'm using to store the dough in my fridge, so there is really nothing (except a wooden spoon!) to clean up.  Easy, right?

So I made a loaf of bread to have with dinner on Tuesday, and I wanted something different for Thursday.  I had some yummy cremini mushrooms -- I am *so* on a mushroom kick -- and cooked them up with some tomatoes to have over pasta, so I decided to make an Italian style herbed bread.  Sounds fancy?  Well, really all I did was take a hunk of the dough out of the bowl, roll it out, smear on a little olive oil, sprinkle on parmesan cheese and Italian herbs and rolled it up.  I left it to rise a bit on the radiator and popped it in the oven.  Fresh bread for dinner and it literally took me 5 minutes!

Once thing I love about all of this is there is usually a little bit of bread left over from dinner which I can stick in the toaster oven and have with lunch the next day.  Yeah!

Comments

[Luv2stitch]

The soup & bread look yummy! Is it on Longaberger pottery? I love their stuff. Great blog.

[Tracey]

I am finally getting my new oven delivered tomorrow. So I am getting all of my baking ducks lined up in a row. Does this book have any whole wheat or whole grain recipes in it? And what was the name of that Williams Sonoma book? Thanks!

Your bread sounds so yummy.

[forcryeye]

Dontcha just love Trader Joes!?!