The South Will Rise

It is a good thing I like cheese so much- well maybe it isn’t, but the fact is I do, and since I have made so many batches of pimento cheese in the last week, I guess it is a good thing.  To start right off, pimento cheese made with pepper jack is awesome.  My first batch was very simple- 2 cups of shredded pepper jack cheese, 6 tablespoons of Dukes mayonnaise, salt and pepper, and a dash of chili pepper.  This one really can’t even be called pimento cheese since I didn’t even use pimentos.  I thought the “pepper” in the pepper jack might be enough, but it wasn’t.  Second batch was pretty much the same except I added 2 tablespoons of pimentos.  This one had more taste, but I wasn’t happy just yet.  So the third batch, thanks to Frances’s suggestion, I added 1 tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce- this was awesome, except it still didn’t have the color I was hoping for, so finally, for the fourth batch, I used 1 cup of shredded cheddar cheese, once cup of pepper jack cheese, 6 tablespoons of mayonnaise, salt and pepper, 2 tablespoons of pimentos, and 1 tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce.  This recipe is the business!  Now, I am sure that you all know that today is the start of the college football season, and in South Carolina or maybe the South in general, this day for a lot of people is maybe better than Christmas.  It is actually shocking that this is not a holiday  The South Carolina Gamecocks are playing the Vanderbilt Commodores this evening, and we are going of course to a party at a friend’s house to celebrate this wonderful day.  Actually I should be more accurate- the boys will be watching the game while I and my wonderful girlfriends will have forgotten the game is on and be chatting and toasting to it almost being Friday.  And I feel this is the perfect place to test my new recipe, although after four batches and a lot of effort, I really think the party should be about my pimento cheese as opposed to football.  I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe Labor Day weekend and Go Gamecocks!

Tags: College Football, Duke's, pimento cheese, South Carolina Gamecocks, southern baking, southern food, Vanderbilt