Crusty Rosemary Bread

Today I finally got around to using my Christmas gift dutch oven to make crusty bread and it completely worked the way my friends at Cook's Illustrated said that it would.  

Observe the perfect crusty quality of the bread.  I think this is the beginning of a new era in Ashley's Bread  Baking.

Matt and I are off in a few minutes for some professional development, in this case watching the winning films from last year's 48 Hour Film Project to see what we are up against and what to expect when we participate for the first time next weekend.  The films are showing at midnight.  Yipes.  We tried to go last night but I had two margaritas and fell asleep.  No margaritas tonight.