The book Artisan Bread in Five Minutes A Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking (Hardcover) by Jeff Hertzberg MD and Zoe Francois (website) is a must-have for anybody who loves homemade bread but doesn't have the time to make it the old fashioned way.

If you like to tinker in the kitchen and have a little room in your fridge, and are pressed for time, you'll love this.

HawkWife made some at the Hawk household a week ago, and we'll be making more this week. It's fantastic, and you can have fresh-baked bread relatively cheaply if you simply get the ingredients ahead of time.

What are some of your favorite recipes that are low-impact to time and effort but yield great results? Share them in comments below.

And remember: This is an Open Thread.

Via Think Progress, Mary Walsh from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's comedy series "This Hour Has 22 Minutes" punks Sarah Palin at one of her book signings:

 "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains."

My copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance -- Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen just arrived. Yes. That's right. Jane. Austen. As in "the."

Need a little teaser? From the description posted at Powell Books:

As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton — and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she's soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers — and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead. 

The only downside ot this particular book is it's on back order due to its popularity. Seriously.