Savory Cheese and Chive Bread

I made this for brunch this morning, taking into account aj's notes from the previous review. I made sure there were lots of chives, skipped the walnuts, measured the cheese by weight to be sure I was putting enough in, and for good measure added some left over caramelized onions (about 1/3 cup). I also mixed the cheese up a little, adding 1 ounce of gruyere and 1 of parmesan I wanted to use up from the fridge.

The result was quite cheesy, nice and savory and went very well with our brunch. Even though I used a lot of chives, it could easily have had more - without the onions it might have been missing flavor - in the recipe she suggests scallions as an alternative, and I'm sure they'd be nice too. Also I found that adding the sharper cheeses intensified the flavour. I'll definitely be making this again.

This bread looks beautiful and is really cheesy, but we didn't much care for it.

Possibly this is because I put in only half the amount of chives called for (all I had on hand) and it probably needed the full amount. But I think the real reason we didn't care for it is because of the addition of the walnuts the recipe called for. They were optional but I decided to toss 'em in because where Dorie leads I will generally follow, although I had my doubts about those walnuts.

We just didn't like the cheese-walnut-chive mix.

BUT -- I'd like to try a hybrid of last night's cheese-apple scones and this bread, i.e. create a sweeter version that includes apple, cheddar, and toasted walnuts, omitting the chives entirely.