Mastering Pimento Cheese 🧀
Secret Family Recipe Reveal 🙌
Greetings Friends, 🏌️♂️ ⛳️
This week was a big one for Golfing fans… The Masters Tournament in Augusta, GA is one of the Major events on the golfing circuit full of traditions, history and great food!
In fact, one tradition is that the Winner of the Green Jacket sets the menu for the Champions Dinner for the following year. This years menu looked solid and has historically included favorite dishes/cuisines dear to the Champion. ⬇️
Food Traditions:
One of the amazing things about Food is the power of flavor memories. The ability to transport yourself back in time when you first experienced a certain dish, flavor or meal.
This point was hammered home in the Disney movie “Ratatouille” where the snobby food critic, Anton Ego, is melted by a humble yet perfectly executed plate of cooked vegetables that took him back in time to when his mother would make for him as a child.
Yes, we talk a lot here about cooking, recipes and meal preps… but over time the more you cook, the more food memories you will create and there really is no substitute for this. It’s an amazing and deeply powerful effect on the human condition.
Pimento Cheese:
One of the fixed menu items at the Masters is pimento cheese. Classically served as a sandwich 🥪 or as a topping for Ritz crackers. (Yes… they need to be Ritz).
Pimento cheese is a classically Southern staple in the US 🇺🇸
At it’s core: shredded cheese, pimentos and mayo.
The problem?
There are a lot of variables… most pimento cheese renditions are mayo heavy… with a pastey-gluey texture that is lacking in any sort of texture. This does a disservice to the Flavor Alchemy that is present in any great pimento cheese 🧀 .
Cheese is of paramount importance. But what type of cheese(s) should you use?
What’s the best way to blend the ingredients?
What’s the Ideal Ratio of Cheese to Mayo?
All of these questions, and more, have answers.
So today, in honor of the Masters Tournament ⛳️ I’m revealing a family recipe that has never been given out! 🙌
Yes… pimento cheese is held near-and-dear in the Octopod Family Recipe collection.
One side of the family had a deep and extensive farming background in the Southern US. Pickles, Preserves… Vegetable Gardens… and much more were all integral to every day life… and meal times!
This recipe came from my Great-Aunt… she had a knack for cooking and made the best pickles on the planet (I can still taste them, just thinking about it 🤤 ).
It’s undeniably the best pimento cheese recipe on Earth 🌎 … the family have never given this recipe out… I never had any intention of sharing this… but times have changed and it only seemed right to drop this in honor of the Masters… and all of the cooking enthusiasts here!
Below the entire recipe is laid out so you can whip this up anytime you have a craving… or just keep a jar in the fridge at all times! 😂
But first.
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And Now…
The Big Reveal…
