Bread in the Morning (for lazy people)

In the first few days of autumn the new morning chill makes it even harder to get out of bed at 6am. Solution: make bread in the the morning. The warm, toasty smell wakes me up almost as well as coffee (there's also the threat of burned bread if you don't retrieve it from the oven). But doesn't bread take forever to make? Not really. I've been using the artisan bread in five minutes a day recipes for about a year, which entails making a large batch of wet dough, and then keeping it around in the refrigerator and tearing off hunks whenever it's time to make bread. Honestly, I don't even measure the ingredients any more (which is VERY BAD, I know, but it makes you feel like a kitchen cowboy/girl).

Lump of dough

So the dough is already made. This is bread for lazy people, but it's good bread. Art is like good bread!  I use a mix of white and whole wheat flour, so it's "healthy" as well. I let it rise about ten minutes, score the top, pop it in the oven, and take it out when it smells good and the top is light brown.

Bread is ready!