I love baking and working with dough and I think baking bread is lots of fun. Seb laughs at my attempts and calls me crazy. He's probably right. It seems a bit silly to bake bread it in Europe because like most people I have a boulangerie two minutes from my house that sells wonderful breads. But yes I think it's fun to make it myself and besides it's always nice to have the smell of warm, baked goodness in your house. And isn't baking bread is a kind of power trip, in a hey you know....I made that kind of way. I'll admit I like that part too.
My No Knead Bread came out pretty good for a first attempt and it actually had a really good crust. It was definitely a fluke that the first round came out so well because bread baking is never easy to master. My second attempt today is looking grim since my dough failed to rise last night for no known reason. * I did the exact same thing but who knows what happened. Bread making is usually like that. Practice makes perfect! The next 10 attempts I'm just looking at as practice sessions. It's the best way to approach it.
*oops, oops, oops I suddenly remembered upon baking that I'd added olive oil at the last minute to my dough ball before I left it overnight....essentially making pizza dough! (it was still good and Seb ate it all!!) I also think I forgot to heat my water before dissolving my yeast, whch was a tip I got off of another person's blog but isn't in the recipe! (umm, the recipe is a little scant especially the video version on the NYT website). So my latest batch is rising nicely, whew.
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