Crusty Wheat Bread

Much like my last post, this is not really dinner. This time I'm not even going to try to make a title that sounds like a complete meal. But it can facilitate a lot of dinners (split pea and ham hock soup with homemade bread, anyone? Come on). Plus, it's made using a dutch oven, so it totally goes with this blog's theme.

If you are like me, making bread sounds intimidating, time-consuming, labor intensive, or all of the above. This method is none of those things.

My goal was to make the kind of bread that costs $6 at the store and is stale by day 2. The kind of bread that requires a good jaw. The type that has 4 ingredients, one of which is water. What I call real bread. This is the recipe that got me there.

Read this. Then do exactly as instructed the next time you're going to be home for 3 hours. That includes only about 2 minutes of actual labor, though!. No kneading required. Are you ever home for 3 hours in a row? Do you have 2 minutes to spare? Do you have a bowl, a wooden spoon, and hands? Of course. Just do it. I won't accept any excuses.

If I've changed your life yet again, well, I don't know what to say. I guess you owe me something big.