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The artisan bread is fantastic

Written on June 21, 2009 by hollie in Artisan Bread In Five Minutes A Day, My experience with an elimination diet, Panic and Anxiety Issues, Recipes I Try From Books:

artisan_breadI’ve made two loaves of the no-knead artisan bread, and I’m here to tell you, it’s freaking amazing. Go buy the book, go grab a giant bag of flour, and get right to it. You will not be sorry.

Oh, and while they say to use a pizza stone, I didn’t have one, and I’m trying to get rid of stuff, not go buy more (ironically enough, my pizza stone was sold at our garage sale a few weeks ago). Instead, I used my Le Creuset Cast-Iron Bistro/Pizza Pan, which apparently they don’t make anymore (I couldn’t find it on Amazon, which is where I got it a few years ago). It works beautifully.

I would have posted this earlier, but I’ve been having a lot of anxiety troubles the last few days. Due to the bread? I doubt it. I’m not willing to speculate, it could be any number of things, but I did decide tonight that I want to try an elimination diet soon. Greg said he fully supports this, and he’ll be there for me, but that he wants me to come up with some menus and recipes before I dive in – otherwise I’ll flounder and just not eat for long stretches of the day, which is worse for the anxiety than the wrong food.

I’ll let you know when I get started! And I’m sure you’ll enjoy the daily reports of my suffering.

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Mmmmmmm, rising bread and some iced tea steeping

Written on June 17, 2009 by hollie in Artisan Bread In Five Minutes A Day, Recipes I Try From Books:

Bread dough rising, and some iced tea brewing

It’s Rooibus tea from Adagio. YUM YUM YUM.

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Making some artisan bread in 5 minutes a day……

Written on June 17, 2009 by hollie in Artisan Bread In Five Minutes A Day, Recipes I Try From Books:

I belong to an amazing online group for Moms, and their collective wisdom blows me away on a regular basis, so when I heard them talking about how great this book was, I had to order it:

Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking

Basically, you mix up some flour, water, salt, and yeast – in a mixer, by hand, or in a large Cuisinart (that’s what I use – I’m the only American woman in my 30′s who gladly gave away her Kitchen Aid and never looks back), and then you put the very wet dough out to rise for a couple hours, and then stick it in the fridge.

You never knead it! After a few hours, you can take out a chunk, shape it, and bake it, and come out with loaves looking like this:

(that’s from the authors’ website, by the way, you might want to check it out!)

I love the idea of making fresh bread, but I hate the kneading process. I’m hoping this will give us all some healthy, unprocessed loaves for sandwiches, toast, and croutons. There are a lot of whole grain options, although I’m trying their basic white peasant bread tonight.

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