Pimento and Cheese Sandwiches

[nw_hunter]

I got a hankering today for some pimento and cheese sandwiches. We ate a lot of those as kids,but today most young folks never heard of them. Anyone else on the forum like them?

[goodshot]

this is new to me, the little glass jars from Kraft? Looks tough to spread unless on hot toast.

[Bob Riebe]

Sounds good.
I do grow Pimiento chiles,and if you let them get ripe to just before they are too ripe, works best if you pick them and let them sit inside for a bit, darn good.

[Graybeard]

Sure never heard it called pimento and cheese, just pimento cheese.

I make my own, have since I was a boy. One large jar of pimento and a bag of grated cheese. Used to grate my own cheese but these days it's easier to just buy it already shredded. Mix it using a fork with tines specially reduced to be thinner to mash it better. Sure wish I still had granny's old forks with tines like knife blades. Man did they make it easier to mash the pimento.

Mix all the juice in with it and add mayonnaise and salt to taste. Best used fresh as soon as made, once chilled the left over is much more difficult to spread and it just tastes so much better freshly made.

[nw_hunter]

Must be a southern thing GB. I think we grew up eating a little different than our northern  or western friends.
That mix of cheese and mayo has to be just right. My wife made some yesterday, and I ate it,but not the same.I'll make the next batch.  Not enough pimentos either.But don't let her know. Woman never was good at taking criticism.   And she's a yankee. Born in central Mo. Can't make good cornbread,but her white bread is downright delicious.


Another thing I'm cravin is a good strawberry pie with homemade whip cream. I had a bakery here in Oreggoon make one for me, and it was terrible. I asked.....How in the hull did you mess a simple strawberry pie up? I found out they added rhubarb to it. Puckered me up so bad,I looked like an asian carp eatin mulberry's. Rhubarb in a strawberry pie?? What were they thinking.

[Bob Riebe]

How in the hull did you mess a simple strawberry pie up? I found out they added rhubarb to it. Puckered me up so bad,I looked like an asian carp eatin mulberry's. Rhubarb in a strawberry pie? ? What were they thinking.

That is a curse that seems to be spreading every where.I like rhubarb pie, I like strawberry pie, i have no desire for a strawberry-rhubarb pie.
 That ruins the taste of either.
If you buy or order either, you MUST make sure they understand what you want.

[Argent 88]

Loved em as a kid, still do.