bread making for dummies (aka me)

Bread seemed so easy to make the first several times.. I started to take it for granted, and now I'm gettin' sloppy! Made some bread today and I think I heated up the milk too much- the bread hardly rose at all, but I'm pretty sure I put the right amount of yeast in.. hmm.

So I stuck it in the oven anyway, and now it looks sort of like a ciabatta loaf:

But it tasted good! Tomorrow I'm going to make another loaf so I can have bread for the whole week!