Bread

Gaaaah! I am so behind. I have not posted anything in ages. My exams and final papers are approaching at an alarming speed and yet I seem to find time to go to a hockey game this coming weekend. Not to mention the fact that I went skiing on Sunday..

But I also have time to make this bread. One thing I am not, or at least not yet, is a bread master. Yes, master. I said it. My mum used to make it nearly every week and still frequently does. I've seen her in action. In the old country, Merritt, my Aunty Mel and I made bread together. All the bread making going on around me, all the bread eating I have done still didn't mean I had ever made it on my own. Countless recipes have been bookmarked and my cookbooks have little tabs all over them with recipes "to do". But when I went into Chapters the other day to buy a cookbook, the Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day just jumped at me. Sort of like a little spot light came down on it. 

Needless to say, I bought the book (and a couple others..) and I made artisan bread in five minutes today! The book title, as easy as it sounds, still scared me. Yeast can be a scary thing. My fears are conquered. It really did take five (active) minutes, just like they said. 

The Master Recipe. I really just googled it and put the first link with the recipe. I used instant yeast, it doesn't matter what you use though. I mixed it all in one ginormous bowl with a wooden spoon then me hands. It doesn't have a lid so I put two pieces of saran wrap and left a thin slit in between the two so it wasn't air tight. Once it goes in the fridge just cover the slit up. Boom, bread.