So here it is, the bread I promised last week. It’s a bit of an odd bread, this. In fact, it might not be much of
a bread at all. Maybe it should be called a loaf. It’s a bit undecided, even in its disposition – not wholely sweet, nor stubbornly savoury.
But in that I-don’t-really-know-who-I-am demeanour, the unsureness, lies its real charm. I am still talking about the bread.
This bread is a quirky one.
I like things quirky.
Quirks make me feel comfortable. Like a patchwork blanket where the squares don’t perfectly meet. Quirky blankets, quirky bread, quirky people. They are who you put your feet up with. Even if your sock has a hole. Hell, sometimes it’s all about the hole.
I can make my daughter happy just by cutting a hole in a piece of paper, and having her look through it. Suddenly, the world looks a little bit quirky, a little less regular. And it makes her giggle and giggle.
And, I am still talking about the bread. The loaf. The loafy bread. Oh, call it what you will, but I promise it will make you put your feet up like quirky things do. And it’ll surprise your mouth with bits of sweet pear and salty cheese and crunchy seeds.
It’s odd in such a good way. It’s the bread that thought outside the bread box. Square loaf in a round hole.
Yeah, I know it’s not really square.
Cheesy pear and pumpkin seed bread
This bread is gloriously good straight out of the oven, when the pieces of pears are folded up in gooey, melted cheese, and the pumpkin seeds are all toasty and crunchy. I chose cheddar because I wanted a no-frills, robust cheese cosying up to the sweet pear. But you can posh-up the bread by replacing the cheddar with gorgonzola, or any other blue-veined cheese. That works wonderfully too.
The other thing we discovered with this bread is that it tastes great a day later, when toasted in a flat pan till lightly browned on both sides. Buttered, or not.
Ingredients
In a separate bowl mix the eggs, olive oil and melted butter. Add this mixture to the dry ingredients and mix well. Add a bit of cold milk if the mixture feels too tight.
Grease your bread tin. Spoon the mixture into the tin. Sprinkle the remaining pumpkin seeds on top.
Pia Ghosh-Roy 
Oh, love! Quirky is nice. Cheesy goodness does win my heart.
I love the way you write so much, I really do.
I'm with you on the wonky blankets, socks with holes and round pegs…
LOL on the blanket ends not meeting! For a control freak like me, I might never fold it and leave it as a spread on the bed or find a different way to fold it 😀
The bread sounds lovely .. quirky or not!
and my 3-year old would vouch for the goodness of cheese too. she's a bit of a cheese connoisseur. the only pre-schooler i know who loves blue cheeses 🙂
a kindred soul! i love that you love what i write. it kinda makes my day 🙂
there must be some medication for this :))
i can just imagine you breaking your back straightenng slippers, and dabbing at specks!
My mouth is watering just looking at that! It looks amazing! 🙂
This quirky bread sounds utterly fantastic! Mmmm…
You had me at 'quirky'… and then you bowled me over with “bits of sweet pear and salty cheese and crunchy seeds”. Yummmmmm……
And im so so happy coz I have all these ingredients at home! Im so making this loafy, quirky break this very weekend 🙂
it was, it was 🙂
my in-house tasters tell me it is, snix 🙂
ooh, excited that you're going to be trying it out! you must, must tell me if you liked it, swati! 🙂
Such tasty looking bread! I love the combo of cheese, pears and seeds.
thanks arrose 🙂 the combo was determined mainly by some pears that were sitting at home, getting too soft 🙂