No-Knead Bread in 10 Minutes. Seriously.

As part of our go-green experiment, I looked at what we were eating and where we could make some changes to reduce our reliance on food from unknown sources. Turns out we’re huge bread eaters, and were easily going through 3 loaves of bread every week. At $4 a loaf, thats $48 month and lots of trips to the store.

The Atlantic SuperStore is the major grocery store in the Maritimes, and not exactly the best when it comes to organic, non-GMO foods. I’ve heard that up to 70% of their products are genetically modified. Numbers like that make me distrust all of their products.  And so I started baking bread on the weekends.

I dusted off a 1970′s copy of On Bread that I found tucked among my mom’s cookbooks and chose a sweet bread and a dark pumpernickel to start with. My kitchen was covered in flour, Akeelah was dusted white, and I loved the novelty of it all. It didn’t take nearly as long as I had expected (only about an hour to mix, knead, and form 4 loaves of bread) and the smell of freshly baking bread filling our home fueled my homesteading dreams.

Last night I went onto my favorite food website, TasteSpotting, in search of new bread recipe. And that’s when I found this recipe– a recipe that has seriously rocked my world. Throw all of those old ideas about bread making out the window. No fighting with dough. No kitchen covered in flour. No rock-solid deformed loaves.

Everyone loves a loaf of freshly baked bread, and when it comes straight from your own oven, is there anything better?

Here are two recipes to get you going.

• No-Knead Artisan Bread
• No-Knead Foccacia