confession time

I love overly processed, overly orange, overly salty cheese, or as is says on the package  - cheese food product.

I think easy cheese on triscuits is delish, toasted cheese sandwiches really are better with velveeta, and cheez whiz the king of the process cheese foods, well, the king.

But, I know better than to eat those sorts of things, so I don’t buy them, well, I do usually have a tiny box of velveeta because they really do make the best toasted cheese sandwiches, but not the others.

Months ago, I ripped a recipe for pimento cheese out of a magazine because it looked like it could be tasty – promptly lost the recipe – decided half way through my grocery shopping that I needed to make it – bought a jar of pimentos and some cheddar cheese and hoped for the best.  I didn’t have the right ingredients for any recipe I found on the internet so I created this.

homemade cheese whiz – who knew?

pimento cheese spread

1 eight ounce package cream cheese

8 ounces sharp cheddar cheese shredded

1 two ounce jar of pimentos drained

1/2 teaspoon cayenne

1/2 teaspoon fresh crack black pepper

pinch of salt

Combine all ingredients in a food processor and pulse until smooth.  Keeps chilled in air tight container for 4 days.  Best and easier to spread if allowed to warm a bit before serving.

Tags: cheese, cheese spread