Follow-up to Stupid Rye Bread

If you had a case of severe insomnia and wound up with a watering mouth after reading my last post, my apologies.
A recipe that takes that much time and effort to make is insane for someone like me. The end result: the dough is in the trash can outside my house. If I were on house arrest, I still would not want to make that bread. There is way too much effort and coordination involved. I could have driven to New York City, visited multiple friends, partied like a rock star for three days and ate countless sandwiches made on NYC Jewish Rye bread that I bought almost two hours away before that bread would have been ready for baking.
Outrageous I say!
I am left with two reminders of this bread effort:

1. the awful smell of rye yeast (think about the smell of the brewery on the Budweiser tour)
2. the fear that the pile of uncooked dough that i threw in the trashcan is going to continue to grow and take over my driveway. If, in this process, it envelopes my husband's motorcycle, well...we all make sacrifices, what can I say?

To counteract the smell and need for bread (because at this point, the bread machine is still sitting out on the counter, yelling: bake with me!), I will try my hand at French Bread.

adapted from: http://www.qis.net/~champion/bread/french.html

French Bread Ingredient List: 9 oz of water 2 teaspoons margarine or butter, softened 3.25 cups bread machine flour 1 tablespoon sugar 1.5 teaspoon salt 2.75 teaspoons regular active dry yeast OR 2.75 teaspoons bread machine or quick-acting active dry yeast Bake on French Bread Cycle

THIS is my kind of recipe!

Any crackpot, opps, i mean, healthy crockpot, suggestions?