Pimento cheese...what's your best recipe?
Shredded sharp, some shredded pepper jack, pimientos (of course), cream cheese all into the food processor... jalapenos straight into there is nice, too.
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When I'm not eating, I work on a meal calendar website (mealoutlaw.com) for fun, so I guess you might say I think about food when I'm not eating it.
oeuf en cocotte recipe
This is really easy to play around with. In order to make this at home, I usually just dice up some cooked bacon and throw in the bottom of the buttered ramekins, cover with a little cheese and thyme, two eggs, and more cheese.
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Pimento cheese...what's your best recipe?
hmmm, I have to add this pretty close to my failures with potato salad. I've been spoiled with the most fabulous pimento cheese that I get when I go back to North Carolina to visit my family, jalapeño pimento cheese from a store called The Fresh Market. No matter how many times I try with various concoctions, I am unable to produce such culinary perfection as Fresh Market.
I hate them for it! *counts the number of days until I go back down to NC for my fix... *13 days, 13 very long days. :(
Pimento cheese...what's your best recipe?
If you're looking for a "light" recipe, here's mine:
3/4 c of Hellmann's light mayonnaise
2 c of Kraft or Cracker Barrell's 2% Shredded Cheddar
1/4 jar of roasted red peppers, minced
1/8 tsp of cayenne pepper
Couple Grinds of Black Pepper
Pinch of Salt
Place all your ingredients in a large bowl and stir to combine.
Pimento cheese...what's your best recipe?
I tried the recipe from Frank Stitt's Southern Table. It was my first ever pimento cheese. What I recall is that it used sharp cheddar, roasted red peppers, cream cheese, mayo, and hot pepper sauce. I only keep Cholula at my house, and I used plenty of that.
But it made far more than I needed, so JEP, I ended up converting it into a broccoli cheese soup with a little roux, tiny bit of onion and some veggie stock. That was pretty good, too.
Pimento cheese...what's your best recipe?
Mayo (homemade of course), grated, aged, quality sharp cheddar, salt, pepper, chopped pimientos, squeeze of lemon juice and grated onion. It's the best damn thing on a slice of pumpernickel toast that you'll ever eat!
Pimento cheese...what's your best recipe?
What do with pimento cheese besides the standard sandwich? Spread on burgers, stuff celery, scoop onto a toasted bagette?
Pimento cheese...what's your best recipe?
Ooh. Pimiento cheese, pizza and cauliflower. This is the best day on SE in a long time. You guys are making me drool all over my keyboard! :)
My two cents on pimiento cheese: don't even bother buying the crap from the grocery store, unless it's been freshly made at the deli (which is rare). The prepackaged, processed stuff is too disgusting for words.
Pimento cheese...what's your best recipe?
I like to add a little kick to homemade pimiento cheese. Sometimes it's a little bit of chopped garlic. Sometimes a wee bit of chopped chipotle peppers. Or a dash or two of Tabasco. It's all good.
Pimento cheese...what's your best recipe?
Shredded cheddar, pimentos [sic], Hellman's and a bit of grated onion. it's also good going half cheddar, half gruyere (though heretical)
Pimento cheese...what's your best recipe?
mayo, pimentos, cheddar cheese, salt, lots of pepper and the secret ingredient...pickle juice.
This is the version my grandfather made who worked at a drugstore in Texas in the late 1930's.
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