Hi everyone. Just signed up from San Antonio. My name is Shari and I'm a mother of 1 beautiful girl who's grown into a lovely young woman. I taught her to cook and she put me to shame by jumping straight into making her own pie crusts, breads, and even noodles! I've been baking bread for about a year with various levels of success and thought it was high time to get some help from the internets.

I received the book Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day for the holidays and have been having fun with it for the last couple of weeks, though I definitely enjoy the more traditional approaches. But you know, sometimes time is a real factor, so the book is coming in handy.

Anyway, you'll probably find me asking some of the most basic novice questions you've ever gotten! Hope y'all can bear with me!