{"id":29322,"date":"2024-09-14T15:13:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T19:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=29322"},"modified":"2024-09-14T15:13:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T19:13:16","slug":"vegetarian-pimento-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=29322","title":{"rendered":"Vegetarian pimento cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Peppers in the garden continue to produce until frost. In fact they love the return of cool weather. A neighbor gave me some beautiful sweet red peppers. They’re not bell peppers. They look more like fresh pimento peppers — thick-skinned and sweet. I’ve used the heck out of them, because there are more where those came from.<\/p>\n

Even if you make pimento cheese from scratch with good ingredients, you’re doing no favor for your lipid profile, what with the cheddar and the cream cheese. The New York Times ran a classic recipe for pimento cheese<\/a> earlier this year. Yum.<\/p>\n

I make a vegetarian version with mashed tofu and seasonings such as brewer’s yeast (also called food yeast) and turmeric or curry powder. There’s no substitute for the mayonnaise, though, I think.<\/p>\n

Next time I’ll roast the pepper on the grill before I chop it.<\/p>\n

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Peppers in the garden continue to produce until frost. In fact they love the return of cool weather. A neighbor gave me some beautiful sweet red peppers. They’re not bell peppers. They look more like fresh pimento peppers — thick-skinned and sweet. I’ve used the heck out of them, because there are more where those … Continue reading “Vegetarian pimento cheese”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29322"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29333,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29322\/revisions\/29333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}