Easy Italian bread

No Knead Bread. 

Yes you can. And it's amazing. 

Some day after lunch get a bowl and mix it up. Then the next morning bake it up. Your family will probably not leave you alone ever again begging for this crusty bread that sings to you when it comes out of the oven!

Around 1-2 pm
Mix 3 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon (yes that little) dry yeast
1 1/4 tsp salt
1 5/8 cups warm water
Mix about 10 times just to moisten everything. Cover with a towel and set aside in a place not too cold. We just put it in the corner of the kitchen counter.

The next morning, flour the counter and scrape your spongy stringy wet dough out onto it. Sprinkle generously with flour and then, with a scraper, fold the dough to the center of itself twice. Like a paper folding in thirds. Don't press. Just fold. Sprinkle again with flour. You're thinking, "there's no way I can pick this up".
Cover with plastic or wax paper and rest 15 min.
Then take a clean cotton non-terrycloth dish towel and flour heavily one half of it, rubbing flour into it. Take the dough and gently pick up, it'll be floppy, and form a ball, tucking edges under all around to create a boule shape. Place on the floured rag, sprinkle the with flour, cover with plastic and fold rag over to cover and rise. Set a timer for 1 1/2 hours. At 1 1/2 hours, put an oven proof pot with its oven proof lid in the oven and turn on to 450. Set timer for 30 min.

When time is up and pot is hot, using hot pads take the pot out and remove the lid. Uncover the dough and with a hand under the towel pick up dough and flip it over into hot pot. Flour will go all over. Yes, it's worth it haha. Peel the towel off the dough where it's gotten stuck and close lid. Put back in the hot oven.

Bake 30 min at 450 then remove the lid and bake 15-30 more minutes or till brown. Dump the bread out onto a rack, check that it's done by thumping the bottom...should sound deep and hollow. 
Cool bread on rack and listen to it crackle and sing to you.

Oh and it goes great with nutella!