my 1st ever homemade baguette!

This is my 2nd attempt at making a French baguette and I feel pretty good about how it turned out. My 1st attempt was such a disaster that I had to toss the whole thing in the garbage.

With this 2nd attempt, I followed directions from a book called The Bread Bible by Rosie Levy Beranbaum. And even though it probably took me 2 days to make the baguette - I found the whole process very satisfying.

And I also watched tons of videos and was perusing this fantastic amateur bread makers forum that I love called The Fresh Loaf.