{"id":3074,"date":"2011-06-03T16:46:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T21:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3074"},"modified":"2011-06-03T16:46:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T21:46:34","slug":"vegan-pimento-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3074","title":{"rendered":"Vegan pimento cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/S-pimento-cheese-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/S-pimento-cheese-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"S-pimento-cheese-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3075\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are lots of vegan cheese substitutes on the market. I&#8217;ve never found one that I thought was good. If you Google, you&#8217;ll also find recipes for vegan pimento cheese with ingredients similar to my favorite recipe. However, the recipe in Frank and Rosalie Hurd&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ten-Talents-Cookbook-Rosalie-Hurd\/dp\/0615255973\/\"><em>Ten Talents<\/em> cookbook<\/a> is so good that I don&#8217;t feel a need to try other recipes.<\/p>\n<p>A key ingredient in this recipe is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Agar_agar\">agar agar<\/a>, a kind of vegan gelatin made from seaweed. The agar agar doesn&#8217;t really add any flavor. It just gives the pimento cheese a cheese-like body, while also adding all those nice trace minerals that are found in sea vegetables. Whole Foods carries agar agar. For the pimentos, I get big jars of roasted peppers at Whole Foods. It&#8217;s cheaper in the big jar, and it&#8217;s of higher quality that the little jars of pimentos found in most grocery stores.<\/p>\n<p>The Hurds&#8217; recipe uses a blender. I find that it&#8217;s difficult to make in a blender, so I use a food processor instead. Don&#8217;t be afraid of the yeast. It actually adds a nice, cheesy flavor to the pimento cheese. The recipe uses quite a lot of oil, so that the vegan cheese has about the same fat content as real cheese. I&#8217;m sure you could reduce the amount of olive oil without spoiling the recipe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/S-pimento-cheese-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/S-pimento-cheese-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"S-pimento-cheese-2\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3075\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/S-pimento-cheese-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/S-pimento-cheese-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"S-pimento-cheese-3\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3075\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SS-pimento-cheese-4.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SS-pimento-cheese-4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"SS-pimento-cheese-4\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3079\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of vegan cheese substitutes on the market. I&#8217;ve never found one that I thought was good. If you Google, you&#8217;ll also find recipes for vegan pimento cheese with ingredients similar to my favorite recipe. However, the recipe in Frank and Rosalie Hurd&#8217;s Ten Talents cookbook is so good that I don&#8217;t feel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3074\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vegan pimento cheese&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074","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=3074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}