Super Fast Homemade Bread!

I know this is going to sound insane, but this book/method of bread baking has truly changed my life! Ok, maybe that was a bit of an exaggeration, but I'm still ecstatic about it!

When I was young and homeschooled, I used to keep a sourdough starter and make fresh bread every day or two. I loved it, but that was back when I was home all the time and had the time to keep up with it. I don't like bread machine bread too much, it always seems to come out kinda funny to me. I am also completely fed up with store-bought bread since EVERY BRAND has high fructose corn syrup and partially hydrogenated soybean oil in it. EWW!!

I was absolutely shocked when I got this book and the basic loaf has 4 ingredients in it: flour, water, salt and yeast. CRAZY, huh? I should know that's all that goes into it, but it's been so long since I've made it and I've been looking at labels of read in the store for so long and reading a mile long list of ingredients...

Anyhoo, that was way off on a tangent. So, the basic idea for this bread is: you dump the 4 ingredients into a big tupperwear tub, stir them up, put the lid on it, leave it sitting on the counter for 2 hours, stick it in the fridge. It keeps for up to 2 weeks, or can be frozen for forever. When you want some bread, you hack off 1/4th of the dough, make a little ball out of it, and let it rest for 40 mins. Then, you stick it in the oven for 30 mins, and voila! fresh bread...

There are also tons of variations of this, you can make: pita, chibatta (sp?), baguettes, flatbread, naan, cinnamon rolls, brioche, etc. I made brioche dough the other day and made sticky buns out of it and it was BY FAR the best cinnamon roll-type food I've ever eaten.

I've also made several if the plain, regular loafs with substituting King Arthur's White Whole Wheat Flour (one of my all-time fave things) for White Flour and it's excellent. The loaf comes out crunchy on the outside, and chewy on the inside. I made a variation of that, also, by adding herbs and cheddar cheese, and made hamburger buns and they were de-lish!

So, check it out! I highly recommend buying this book here or you can also check out their website here.

Also, I have bread out my ears, so let me know if you would like a loaf :)