I think the FOT recipe exchange is an awesome idea...I love to cook too, and I've been getting obsessed with sourdough (naturally leavened) bread for a few years now.
ingredients = about 85% high protein bread flour, about 15 percent whole grain or rye flour, about 1% salt, and about 65% water (that 65% of the weight of the flour). You do a few rises and folding techniques..bake it in a screaming hot oven lined with bricks... wonderful. I've been maintaining a sourdough starter for a while and it's really interesting and ...yes, a relaxing simple pleasure. the learning curve on bread is something else though...it's a trial and error thing which you have to love to do in order to take on.. but it's well worth it. One day I'd like to build a brick oven outside and maybe sell bread at farmers markets or something.