I made marvelous bread yesterday. What a delight to learn a new skill which allows me to reproduce quality bread at home in just a few minutes. I highly recommend "Artisan Bread in Five Minutes A Day" by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois.

I intend to fully enjoy this week of vacation. The family is home today and housebound by the heavy rain. It will be a great day to get some lesson planning done for upcoming weeks. Tomorrow I'm on a trek to the North Coast to visit my granddaughter and break up my daughter's last week of pregnancy. Next weekend, if all goes well, we'll work on our square foot garden boxes and perhaps add to our flock of chickens.

I hope everyone(and both of my readers) enjoys the week, sunny weather or wet.

And now for my high wire act

Today is the day. I am going to try one of those famous no-knead bread recipes that are floating around on the web, at the local bookstore and in the newspaper. These recipes promise to help you easily fit bread baking into your routine while giving you the most incredible bread you've ever tasted. Hmm...not bad hype. There may be more of a knack to it than that, considering all of the sites devoted to the intricacies of no-knead bread making I've seen. But I'm willing to give it a try since I'm a pretty good baker and bread baking has taken up plenty of my time lately. Once I've taken the plunge I'll report the results here.