My Bread

There must be something about baking when the winds begin to blow; one worries about the electricity going off; rain is falling and there is even a possibility of SNOW!  I asked my friend, Marilyn, how her daughter, Kristi, was getting along in Pennsylvania.  "Oh, she's getting ready for the hurricane.  She is baking cookies and corn bread, heating up the kitchen so when the electricity goes out the kitchen will be warm."  Sounds logical!  We have always laughed that Kristi and I have the same kind of brain.   I was baking bread in Virginia!

My Bread by Jim Lahey has recipes and directions for NO KNEAD BREAD.  This fasinated me two years ago when I hear him interviewed about his method and his new book.  Thank you, Martha, for giving me this book!  I love it!  Not only does it have great recipes, but it has pictures that make you salivate.  There is no resisting the plunge into the dough after spending just a few minutes looking at it.  We've talked about this method over the last two years.  I found wonderful discounted clay bread bakers at the seconds store of  Emerson Creek Pottery in Bedford, VA for King Author Flour Co. and gave one to my sister, Martha, for Christmas.  Unfortunately it broke in the mail so I went back this year and got another.  I am here to tell you that it works beautifully, the clay baker and the basic recipe from the book.

Now that I have taken the picture, I am off to taste the bread.