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I happen to like mine with some minced peppadews mixed in. I love the tangy sweet-hot bite they add to the mix.

My recipe comes from "Hoppin' John's" book. He is a South Carolina chef - we visit there in the Folly Beach area every year and I bought the cook book - it is even better because no one up here in Canada has ever heard of pimento cheese - I am asked to bring it everywhere, always to rave reviews - my recipe includes the sharp cheese, pimento (I make my own roasted red pepper and freeze it in the Fall) & juice, a tablespoon of grated onion and addition of cayenne to taste - Hoppin' John uses his own homemade mayo but I often just use a good quality store bought mayo. It is soooo good!

Childhood memories of Texas summer and lunches of my Mom's pimiento cheese. She would call all of us kids, of which there where 4, on to the back porch and hand us paper napkins with this lucious cheese spread between slices of white bread We would sit on the steps placing eat bite carefully in our mouths so not to loose on single bite! The following is the recipe I found in her handwritting in her cookbook fly leaf.

1 pound Red Rind LongHorn cheddar cheese grated by hand with box grater
1 4 oz jar pimientos drained well
1 teaspoon finely minced sweet onion
1 clove finely minced fresh garlic
1 grated dill pickle (Best Maid)
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1/2- 3/4 cup mayonniase (Hellmanns)
Mix all ingredients by hand until spreadable. Chill for 2 hours and serve.

I am sure this is an old recipe as Mom is now 80 and I have crossed the midnite hour.:(

Grandma Crocetti's Italian fried dough cookies., cenci. So good. And the best part was the powdered sugar you got all over yourself when you ate the cookies.

ice cream cones

My mom's spongecake before she filled it :)

rugalach
my mom's lemon meringue pie
rice pudding
cup custards at Horn and Hardart

I was always most excited when my mother made her chocolate chip mondel bread / mondel brot. I certainly have not outgrown it - now, I make it myself (not too often!).

I loved the peanut butter cup sundae from Friendly's ice cream. two scoops of vanilla with chocolate fudge and peanut butter sauce, with whipped cream and a reese's peanut butter cup on top!

Corn flake Wreathes, and I will never get sick of them

i always loved chocolate cake :)

My fave was and still is chocolate brownies. Mmmm...