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Jim Lahey's No-Knead Bread

I’ve recently taken an interest in baking. Specifically, baking bread. Bread is another staple that, until recently, we always bought at the store. My first foray into baking bread came a few weeks ago when we were having sloppy joes for dinner (Gabrielle should post about the sloppy joe recipe she has, it’s really great). I started the joes and then realized that we didn’t have any bread or hamburger buns. I was just about to head out to the store when I decided to see if there was a recipe for buns online that looked fast and easy. I found one on allrecipes.com . I gave it a try and had pretty decent buns in a little over an hour. I was so encouraged by the results that a few days later we headed to the bookstore to look for bread books. I really had no idea where to start. Gabrielle had read about Jim Lahey’s “no knead method” and luckily Greenlight Books had a copy of his book. The book, My Bread , is well written, informative, and loaded with simple recipes an...