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French Fridays with Dorie: Savory Cheese and Scallion Bread

Cheese bread!  cheesy bread!  I went nuts when I saw this recipe was coming up for FFWD.  Who the heck wouldn’t want to eat cheesy, onioney (is that a word?) homemade bread?  I wanted to eat it so much that I made a whole big loaf, instead of a mini or half-loaf.  We had some the day it was baked with homemade tomato soup– so good!– and some went into the freezer, because it will be awesome alongside scrambled eggs for a weekend breakfast.

If you shy away from making bread at home, or fear yeast, or whatever, don’t worry here.  This is a quick bread, much like a muffin.  In fact, you can even turn the loaf into cheese muffins, if you are so inclined.  The original recipe uses chives, but I didn’t have any and used scallions instead.  A combo of cheddar and Gruyère was just right, and made this a great, easy, cheesy bread that I’ll bake again and again.

For the recipe, see Around my French Table by Dorie Greenspan (it’s also on The Washington Post’s site).  Don’t forget to check out my fellow francophiles’ posts!