Savory Monkey Bread

     It took me a while to get this up, but I did a lot of baking last week.  Chocolate chip cookies to make ice cream sandwiches.  Sour dough rye because I hate wasting starter.  Onion rolls for hamburgers.  Sourdough biscuits for to go with creamed eggs for Easter breakfast.  I love baking, but it kept me from blogging.  Anyway here it is, last week's bread blog. 
     I wanted to make an easy bread for Easter dinner.  I had already decided that I was going to make a chorizo stuffed pork loin for dinner.  I am not a big fan of the chorizo that I find in the local grocery store, so I found a recipe for chorizo on the internet.  What kind of bread - I didn't want tortillas.  I wanted bread.  Then I remember seeing a recipe on King Arthur for savory pull apart roll aka Savory Monkey Bread.  I made a few changes to the recipe. I used the same herbs and spices in the chorizo and a bit of asiago (I know it's not Mexican, but that's what I had on hand) in the bread.  It was the perfect accompaniment to the roasted pork.  I was a little worried about the bread being to spicy for my cousin, Pil.  She's always telling Wayne and me that we are pepper bellies.  Well, it was perfectly flavored.  The bread was moist and flavorful.  The little "rolls" were almost as good on Monday as they were on Easter.

     Of course, Easter always brings back tons of childhood memories.  Even though the EB no longer brings me a basket of candy, I still love dying Easter eggs.  Wayne had not dyed eggs since childhood until he marries me nearly 29 years ago.  While most normal people are trying to dye and decorate the prettiest egg possible, we go in the opposite direction.  We have the annual ugly egg dying contest.  When we used to have a household full of people, they would vote on the egg.  This year I turned to Facebook.  I have to say, these were the only election returns we have enjoyed this primary season.  Votes were coming in all evening Saturday and continued into Sunday.  Anita, our "matchmaker" (see hearts and knots blog entry), said her phone was binging all night. 
     We had lots of votes, opinions, and fun.  Some of my favorite comments: No.1 Looks like it has fungus growing on it.  I don't know, I kinda like 8...it reminds me of the moon...lol. I pick 7!  Can I vote again. I'm from St. Bernard.  4 is actually pretty.... i would say #7 b/c it looks like it's bleeding.  7! I don't want to see anything tht comes out of a chicken with a ring of red around it :x !  I was going to say 8, but it kind of looks like a dinosaur egg. So my vote is 3, it has a post Katrina water stain that's a little off putting.  Child Number 1 says Egg Number 3
     I was sure I would win with egg #7, alas Wayne won with egg #8.  You can see the picture below.  All I can say is, there's always next year.