383537 Wed Mar 21 12:57:00 -0700 2007 3 31 Home Cooking 0 2408020 Hi - I'm making Hoppin' John for dinner and, since we're burned-out on cornbread and its variants, was thinking about making a savoury monkey bread as a side (in addition to greens). But, um, I've never actually made monkey bread and am hoping that someone here can give me some pointers (or a recipe?) for it. Wed Mar 21 12:57:00 -0700 2007 58039 ElsieDee 1 2408100 This will probably make some chowhounds flip their lids, but a friend of mine has this on the regular rotation at social gatherings and it's always a hit. It's basically this recipe (http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,194,146187-233196,00.html) but she mixes some Lipton onion soup mix in with the butter. This seems like a good foundation to start with. I can think of a lot of great variations (use roasted garlic instead of cheese, rosemary and olive oil instead of butter and onion soup mix and provolone instead of cheddar, etc)....I just haven't gotten around to trying to make any :-) Wed Mar 21 13:15:08 -0700 2007 2408020 69452 jzerocsk 1 2408753 Here's my favorite (by way of a cookbook created by the Willie Vincent Circle Women's Missionary Union of the Blue Eye Baptist Church, Lincoln, Alabama--so it ought to go pretty well with Hoppin' John!) http://www.casagordita.com/monkeybread.htm Wed Mar 21 15:53:25 -0700 2007 2408020 27327 MsMaryMc 1 2409402 Take yor fave bread dough (homemade or storebought). Separate into balls. Roll each ball in pesto. Chuck them all together in a pan (it looks nice in a tube pan, but you can use any kind). Bake. Wed Mar 21 19:27:20 -0700 2007 2408020 10681 piccola