{"id":588,"date":"2012-03-28T16:59:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T20:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/?p=588"},"modified":"2012-03-28T17:06:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T21:06:49","slug":"pimento-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/?p=588","title":{"rendered":"Pimento Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Yesterday, Iggy returned from a long weekend in North Carolina bearing pimento cheese and pound cake.<\/p>\n

I had first heard about pimento cheese from\u00c2\u00a0Jane and Michael Stern<\/a>‘s Road Food segment on the Splendid Table<\/a> (wow, that’s a mouthful). \u00c2\u00a0After hearing about the stuff, I was curious and wondered how to get my hands on what I learned was a one those rare remaining regional (Southern) creations. \u00c2\u00a0So I was excited to finally give it a try.<\/p>\n

So what is pimento cheese? \u00c2\u00a0At its most basic, it’s\u00c2\u00a0cheddar cheese, mayonnaise, pimentos <\/a>(yeah, those red flecks from olives),and \u00c2\u00a0salt & pepper, but additional ingredients can pop-up. \u00c2\u00a0The mixture can be either blended to a smooth paste or\u00c2\u00a0choppily mixed together.<\/p>\n

The mixture Iggy brought back was chipotle\u00c2\u00a0pimento cheese, \u00c2\u00a0with a little bit of heat added to basic ingredient outline and was on the coarse side of the mixing style. \u00c2\u00a0Keeping it simple, and classy, we ate this new fair onto some Ritz crackers. \u00c2\u00a0And the Ritz cracker were prefect–their crispy butteriness amplified decadent fat going on in the cheese (we also tried it on some of fancy, and\u00c2\u00a0neutral, \u00c2\u00a0little cheese toasts to get a baseline).<\/p>\n

Now that I’ve had it I want more. \u00c2\u00a0While part of me is ready to organize a second War of\u00c2\u00a0Northern\u00c2\u00a0Aggression\u00c2\u00a0to\u00c2\u00a0get my hands on the stuff, I might just settle for making it at home. \u00c2\u00a0If I can get my hands on\u00c2\u00a0pimento and a decent recipe, it seems easy enough. \u00c2\u00a0I just keep wondering what else I could do with this cheese. \u00c2\u00a0Grilled cheese? \u00c2\u00a0Burger toppings? \u00c2\u00a0Deep frying?! \u00c2\u00a0If I pull of any of this, I’ll be sure to post!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Iggy returned from a long weekend in North Carolina bearing pimento cheese and pound cake. I had first heard about pimento cheese from\u00c2\u00a0Jane and Michael Stern‘s Road Food segment on the Splendid Table (wow, that’s a mouthful). \u00c2\u00a0After hearing about the stuff, I was curious and wondered how to get my hands on what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35,121,122],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-cheese","tag-pimento-cheese","tag-southern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}