I had never heard of pimento cheese before but it has my favorite ingredients: cheese and mayonnaise. What about melting it on a burger? Or using it as a base for a casserole (like a chicken-divan type casserole?) Am I crazy?
Making Pimento Cheese with Jamie and Paula Deen
Posted by Paula Deen on Wednesday, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:18 pm
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Hey Y’all!
Hope you enjoyed the video I made with Jamie. We had so much fun and the Pimento Cheese was out of this world. You can find the recipe and other great ones in our Kitchen Classics Cookbook.
Alright, for this week’s Activity Challenge, we received SO many great pimento recipes. The ones that stood out to us the most were from Tink, Paul Hodges and Kelly S. You three will be getting Kitchen Classic Cookbooks! Check out their recipes and stories in their "Blogs". Thank you to everyone for sharing all your wonderful recipes! To see all the great Pimento Cheese Community Dishes you can click HERE.
Tune in tomorrow to see what dish we’re going to cook next. If I were you, I’d bring my sweet tooth…
Love and Best Dishes,
Paula
Hope you enjoyed the video I made with Jamie. We had so much fun and the Pimento Cheese was out of this world. You can find the recipe and other great ones in our Kitchen Classics Cookbook.
Alright, for this week’s Activity Challenge, we received SO many great pimento recipes. The ones that stood out to us the most were from Tink, Paul Hodges and Kelly S. You three will be getting Kitchen Classic Cookbooks! Check out their recipes and stories in their "Blogs". Thank you to everyone for sharing all your wonderful recipes! To see all the great Pimento Cheese Community Dishes you can click HERE.
Tune in tomorrow to see what dish we’re going to cook next. If I were you, I’d bring my sweet tooth…
Love and Best Dishes,
Paula
Recent discussion
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- Amy Wilson
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- Erin Gaines
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Your pimento cheese recipe is a family favorite. My husband, who is a picky eater, loves your pimento cheese. Peyton loves to help me make it. -
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- Dana Lourie
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Amy Wilson--pimento cheese is great on a burger, lots of restaurants here in the south serve it! -
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- Teresa Jewell
- — Jul 23, 2009
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Paula, I have to tell you that your peminto cheese spread is great! I have made it since I was a teenager, but not exactly like yours..I add hot sauce, and fine chopped onion and sometimes I use green onions with chopped green parts. I also use the spread as an additive to my macaroni and cheese..yum! We grill it with butter of course like you would a grilled cheese sandwich, in a big black skillet..
Can also be used as a tostito..brown one side of a tortilla, then cover with your cheese spread, then place the ungrill side down in your black skillet and let the good times roll baby! -
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- Susan Dorough
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Paula,
Did you get my pimento cheese recipe? If not, here it is:
Cajun Ham and Cheese Spread
1 lb. finely grated sharp cheddar cheese
8 oz. fully cooked cubed ham, finely chopped
1 small sweet onion, finely chopped
2 cloves garlic, finely minced
¼ cup sweet roasted peppers, finely chopped
1 tsp. Tony Chachere’s Creole seasoning
½ tsp. ground cayenne pepper
½ tsp. coarse ground black pepper
¼ cup mayonnaise
2 Tbs. liquid smoke
¼ cup bacon bits
Chop the onion, garlic and sweet peppers in a small electric chopper until very fine. Transfer to a medium size bowl. Chop the cubed ham in the chopper until finely grated. Combine all ingredients and stir until desired consistency. Transfer to serving dish, smooth out and top with bacon bits. This is great on Ritz crackers, shredded wheat crackers or stuffed in celery spears.
Love your shows,
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- Allison Hairr Cleveland
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Oh, Paula can always make me smile! Her comment about the cheese getting hard in the refrigerator if it doesn't have enough mayo....as hard as her arteries. Ha! Love her! -
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- Jennifer Schwartz
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Okay, got a question. Is this like a yellowish color, with red things in it? And what does it taste like? -
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- Jennifer Schwartz
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- laurel larison
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That was so fun ! I love when you have your sons on the show and videos ! blessings, laurel
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- TAMMY DALTON
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PAULA, THIS PIMENTO CHEESE SPREAD IS ALSO VERY GOOD ON A BAKED POTATO. YOUR FAVORITE VEGGIE I KNOW. PAT WITH A LITTLE BUTTER TOP WITH CHEESE SPREAD AND THEN TOP WITH A FEW CRUMBLED PIECES OF BACON YUMMY!!!
LOVE YOU, AND THANK YOU FOR BRIGHTENING OUR DAYS. -
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Hurry up and submit your Pimento Cheese Recipes!
Posted by Paula Deen on Monday, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:22 pm
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Alright y’all, only one day left to get your Pimento Cheese recipes in to Get Cookin. We’d love to see your creativity and cooking skills! If you don’t want to make a dish, make sure to stop by and see what other folks are making. Click on the Community Blog section to see all the great dishes.
Love and Best Dishes,
Paula
Love and Best Dishes,
Paula
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Cast Spotlight - Libbie Summers
Posted by Paula Deen on Saturday, Jul 18, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Hey Y'all, I want you to meet Libbie Summers. Libbie works with me as my food stylist and is the Head Food Stylist for Paula's Best Dishes. She is so talented y'all. She wrote this great little behind-the-scenes story featuring Pimento Cheese. Hope y'all enjoy!
Paula
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The Power of a Pimento Cheese Sandwich
So, a few times a year Paula does something called a SMT or Satellite Media Tour. It’s a grueling 6-8 hours of non-stop television interviews via a live remote. She starts around 6:30am for her first morning show interview and works her way across the country with interviews every 10 minutes or so. These are usually broadcast from her home in Savannah, with an abundant display of gorgeous food around her that has to look fresh and new for 10 hours from set up. That’s where I come in. I usually start my day at 3:00am.
While the glam squad is making Paula beautiful, I make the food beautiful, seamless and exactly how Paula would want it…if, say… Oprah or The President just happened to be stopping by for a 6:00am visit. A few months ago we had a SMT promoting Paula’s new B. Lloyds nut line. All is going great, everything beautiful. Paula in the most gorgeous blue linen blouse, hair just right, nuts looking…well, nutty. Clients beaming. Fast forward to about the fourth hour of taping. Paula has been standing on her feet and visiting with morning show hosts from NY to Texas…I know her well enough to know when she is fading…when the breakfast coffee and eggs she had earlier just aren’t doing the trick any longer. There is also a rep from the ad agency on set that is VERY pregnant and it also looks like we are losing her. Both women need some food and in a bad way. I peek in Paula’s fridge… condiments… condiments… condiments… and then I see it. Some prosciutto I had used on a photo shoot a couple days earlier and the makings of pimento cheese.
During a quick break between interviews, I busted out what Paula said was one of the best sandwiches she has ever had, and the pregnant girl said WAS the best sandwich she ever had. We won’t count her though…she clearly had eaten anything she could get her hands on the past few months. Paula finished out her last 4 hours of the day with gusto, beauty and charm. I like to think it was a little of my Crispy Grilled Pimento Cheese Sandwich that helped to save the nuts.
Here is what I made for her on the fly that day: A sandwich of sliced 7 grain bread with the most thin layer of cream cheese, sliced tomato, homemade pimento cheese(on the dry side), oven crisp prosciutto (for crunch)…grilled, served warm and swallowed nearly whole during a commercial break.- Posted by
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Mmm, mmm, Pimento Cheese
Posted by Paula Deen on Thursday, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:31 pm
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Hey Y'all
Mmm, mmm, mmm! This week I want us to talk about and make Pimento Cheese. I just love Pimento Cheese, don’t you? For those of you not familiar with Pimentos, they are roasted red peppers marinated in a juice of salt water and other spices. Pimento Cheese is made by adding Pimentos to a cheese and seasoning mixture. I’ve included a great recipe for Pimento Cheese sandwiches below.
I started making Pimento Cheese back when I was a little girl in Albany. A few years back, a good friend of mine Linda gave me a wonderful secret . . . add cream cheese to the mixture for more smoothness and a richer flavor. My oh my was she ever right!!
Jamie came over to the house and we made Pimento Cheese together. We made a little teaser video above and we are going to show the full video on Wednesday. I hope y’all like it, we had so much fun making it. We eat Pimento Cheese on sliced bread, celery sticks, and burgers but it’s a delicious spread that is good on anything!
ACTIVITY OF THE WEEK
This week I want to see all of you making either your own spin on Pimento Cheese by adding new fun ingredients OR creating a fun dish that has Pimento Cheese in it. Make a video, upload photos, or just write us a story. Once you post it on your profile page, you need to flag it as cool. Right next to where you post it, there is a little flag and if you click on it, you get the option to select cool. If you have any questions, ask our website guys Greg or Jason. We’re going to select two of the dishes and send you the signed Kitchen Classics Cook Book.
Love and Best Dishes,
Paula
Mmm, mmm, mmm! This week I want us to talk about and make Pimento Cheese. I just love Pimento Cheese, don’t you? For those of you not familiar with Pimentos, they are roasted red peppers marinated in a juice of salt water and other spices. Pimento Cheese is made by adding Pimentos to a cheese and seasoning mixture. I’ve included a great recipe for Pimento Cheese sandwiches below.
I started making Pimento Cheese back when I was a little girl in Albany. A few years back, a good friend of mine Linda gave me a wonderful secret . . . add cream cheese to the mixture for more smoothness and a richer flavor. My oh my was she ever right!!
Jamie came over to the house and we made Pimento Cheese together. We made a little teaser video above and we are going to show the full video on Wednesday. I hope y’all like it, we had so much fun making it. We eat Pimento Cheese on sliced bread, celery sticks, and burgers but it’s a delicious spread that is good on anything!
ACTIVITY OF THE WEEK
This week I want to see all of you making either your own spin on Pimento Cheese by adding new fun ingredients OR creating a fun dish that has Pimento Cheese in it. Make a video, upload photos, or just write us a story. Once you post it on your profile page, you need to flag it as cool. Right next to where you post it, there is a little flag and if you click on it, you get the option to select cool. If you have any questions, ask our website guys Greg or Jason. We’re going to select two of the dishes and send you the signed Kitchen Classics Cook Book.
Love and Best Dishes,
Paula
- (Last was Jul 17, 2009)
