Untried but considering: Pimento Cheese Featherbed Eggs
so...here's the rub: I don't like pimentos; I don't like pimento cheese; I don't like corn bread (at least not this local puritanical version with no sugar & no butter). But I do have a dear 84-year old Charleston-born neighbor with cancer. I'd like to make this for him, but truly have no...
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A few days ago I made this for my southern born & bred neighbors, cut out a slice and passed it along.
Here is my admittedly biased "I don't like cornbread to begin with" option:
- The cornbread portion was overly peppery (both black pepper and cayenne pepper) and yet tasteless.
- When the shallots and pimentos were added to the custard, they floated to the top. So regardless of how I tried to ladle the custard over the cornbread shards, these add-ins ended up on the top of the dish and not through-out.
- I baked it the minimum time and the custard did not fully set. However, the grand daughter was waiting to take it home for their dinner and so I told her to add 10 more minutes cooking time. When I tasted my slice, there was NO CUSTARDY flavor.
- I had added an extra ounce of cheese and it STILL MADE NO DIFFERENCE. Somehow this dish was devoid of flavor, like ATK forgot to add that into the ingredients.
- It did look pretty
But--I repeat--I am biased here, so allow me to post the verdict from an 83-year old, a 73-year old and a 21-year old (all born on the South Carolina shore): "Back to your strata. None of us were very impressed with it. It just did not have a distinct flavor. Now the brand of pimento cheese you sent was very good."
Ha! Vindicated!!
By the way, this is the pimento cheese spread I passed along:
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