I border on pimento cheese addict
maybe just bordering on cheese addict in general

made up a batch tonight
mine is
pound softened cream cheese
about a half cup Mayo I don't measure just scoop with a spoon to what looks good
7oz jar of Pimentos drained
mix
half pound shredded sharp cheddar
then alternate crystals hot sauce and tony Chachere's creole seasoning mixing till it has my desired level of heat.

yes I have worked briefly at as a cheesemonger it was a volunteer gig, I was paid in cheese

I don't even know what a pimento is

I’m not addicted but close also, I like the cheese but also like pickle and pimento loaf as well.

Never had one, but I'll be getting one at the Masters this year!

Your recipe sounds pretty good !

It's okay but I've never tried making it.

I have switched from pimento to roasted red peppers that are pickled. Enjoy the flavor even more.

I make my own pimentos for pimento cheese.
Take a red bell pepper and roast it under the broiler until the skin is all black and charred. Immediately place it in a plastic bag and let it cool. The charred skin will wipe off. Then dice your pimentos.

So Pete, do you just mix this all up in a bowl, or do you use a food processor or blender? My husband, also Pete, lol, likes the Pimento cheese in the little glass jar by Kraft. When I made homemade pimento cheese, with a recipe similar to yours, he didn't like it. I'm guessing due to the texture from the shredded cheese, maybe?

Peppers, specifically meaty sweet peppers. Bells suffice but properly pimentos are a category of thicked walled sweet peppers that are not bells.

Growing up pimento cheese was that nasty stuff bought in the little tub at the store for sandwiches. Hated it.

Then a few years back I was shockingly surprised to find out I liked these little finger food sandwiches one of the ladies at church brought to church functions. Turns out pimento cheese is far more than those little tubs.

Didn't even recognize it as pimento cheese the taste and texture was so different.

I highly recommend trying homemade with your choice of cheese, various degrees of grating, seasoning or even fresh to roasted peppers. The possibilities are endless.

Great, now I'll be craving pimento cheese all day . Guess I better leave a note for the Mrs. There is a grocery store that ha some excellent stuff ,and the wife has reverse engineered and re-created it .It is very similar to the recipe you use.

I love the stuff and always thought about making my own. Gonna make some this weekend

Pimento cheese sandwiches are the tradition at the masters tournament every spring. I like them.
Jim

just a bowl

if it is very soft cream cheese I may get away with just using a small stiff rubber spatulate to cut and mix

If I didn't think to leave the cream cheese out longer or it is newer yes cream cheese closer to the best if used by date gets softer, 2 butter knives and cut the mixture together like pie crust lard

texture can vary by how large or small you shred the cheese

once the pimentos , cream cheese and mayo are well mixed , add a little cheese mix , add a little cheese mix keep going till it is how you like for me that is about a half pound of sharp cheddar

if you add to much shredded cheese at once it clumps

Pimento cheese is really good

I had a friend that thought you had to eat pimento cheese on white bread with chili. That never made sense to me. I like corn bread with my chili and I like my chili spicy hot.

probably just how his mom served it , chili with white bread and a tub of pimento cheese

to save baking corn bread

it might have even been canned chili

sadly there are people who think chili comes in a can , there is a can labeled chili but chili does not come in a can.

You may be right about getting it from his mom. I once asked him and he said "it's just how you eat chili" like there was no other way to do it. It wasn't chili from a can. He liked cooking for people and was a good cook but was stuck in a paradigm with his chili.

it's just what you grow up with

when I was a kid a LOT of chili was served with noodle

depression era cooking hold over maybe coupled with a little Wisconsin

my mom didn't make chili but I got it at snowmobile swap meets or grandmas house.

hamburger soup with noodles is what they would call it in the south it was not spicy at all not overly thick , but I still liked it.
my mother in law a child of depression parents made something very similar