French Bread - Take 2

In a previous post, I mentioned that I attempted the French Bread recipe from Foodie Bride's blog. After my successful King Cake last weekend and new found dough-rising technique, I decided to give the French Bread another try.

I decided to make the bread while I also made breakfast (more on this later). This was a bad idea because both needed the oven... thus ruining my new dough-rising technique. So I just left the dough on the counter, near the little window where the sun creeps in and hoped for the best. Of course, we had plans for the day (rug shopping, ugh) and it was time to go and the dough had not doubled yet. Ryan was ready to go so the bread had to go in the oven. Here's the final product.

Once again, it TASTED divine, looked pretty good but is just "heavy". Oh well, guess I will have to try again! :)