Adventures in Baking: Boule

I haven't been doing much baking, especially since the shocker of my pregnancy. Before this, the last time I baked was when I blogged about it, and I'm pretty sure that was before we knew about this new guy.

I'm feeling a bit better about things recently (and I do mean just a bit, a bitty bit), so I broke out my big bucket for some fresh bread.

Boule is the very basic recipe in my bread book, but it is by far the most delicious and versatile one I've made.

Butter + garlic salt + boule=heaven, FYI.

Anyway, here's the bread at just mixed:

At 1 hr:

2 hrs:


The spoils of a baked loaf:


If you have the book, make this bread! So simple and so, so good.