 nothing is better for an appetizer than a good old pimento cheese plate with some delicious golden buttery crackers ours has cream cheese in it you can add heat to it if you want to with some jalapenos or some pepper jack cheese whatever you like the best i'm going to show you our recipe let's get started and it's my brother's recipe now he uses a jalapeno pepper he boils it and chars it and then chops it up puts it in here today i'm not doing that i'm just making pimento cheese without the jalapeno so i'm using these recipe just not adding the jalapeno okay so we're going to start by grating our cheese and a friend of mine actually sent us a new grater that sticks to the countertop i'm super excited to use it we just got it in the mail not that long ago so i am going to grate eight ounces of sharp cheddar i'm also going to grate your the recipe calls for eight ounces of american cheese but i don't have they didn't have american at the public's when i went and block and i didn't want to get it that was already grated because it's tastes better for pimento cheese to actually grate your cheese so this is colby jack what i got since they didn't have the american looks good it's gonna be good we also put cream cheese in there which makes it good and creamy and some mayo so you're not going to put your cream cheese through your grater it would just make a big mess um so what you do is get it to room temperature and now we're going to combine all of these ingredients i'm going to lift this up put this to the side and then we're going to have a bowl here i'm going to mix everything he just says mix it all together but what we're going to do is we're going to mix all the ingredients besides the cheese together and then we're going to add our cheese and mix it up okay so there's your cream cheese you're going to use a quarter teaspoon of onion powder a quarter teaspoon of garlic powder and i'm using roasted garlic powder and a quarter teaspoon of cayenne pepper half cup of mayonnaise and we're using blue plate if you haven't noticed blue plate has changed their logo i think to their really old one back to their old logo i'm not sure exactly so don't quote me on it and now we're going to put in about two ounces of diced pimentos our friend that came to see us the other day gave us this and it opens jars and we're going to put in half of this all right we're going to put about half of this in this is a large jar of pimentos and don't forget the pimentos in your pimento salad and now we're just going to mix this up good and if you want to you can use a mixer but it would beat the pimentos up pretty good so i'm just going to use my spatula and just get that creamy cream cheese in with the mayonnaise and if you do this first then it's just easier to mix everything up now pimento cheese is an amazing appetizer to have in the house this time of year for your football games for Thanksgiving for your different holidays and parties because it lasts for a while in the in the refrigerator there's really nothing in it that's going to go bad you can look at the date on your cream cheese when you make it and just date it however long your cream cheese is good for and it should be absolutely fine and you can get it out and use it for more than one thing if it doesn't get eaten up don't put our cheese in here and we're going to mix this up let me get a bigger mixer upper my brother eddy made this for his family and friends and he's a pastor and a contractor so he has lots of people over and everybody loves it so much but now he does put the jalapenos in there you can always do that you can use a pepper jack cheese if you want to add a little heat to it or you can use the fresh jalapeno like eddy did but my brother eddy is a wonderful cook and you're going to love this recipe so we're just going to mix this up good now you can get out of a harder instrument to mix it up but i try not to do that on the cooking shows because it clanks so loud but that's really all there's to it it was easy wouldn't it just make sure you got all the cheese in there good it looks delicious all right so i'm going to put it in the serving bowl and we're going to have it with some crackers today the kids are coming over later we're going to have dinner and i thought this would be a great appetizer to have so i am going to place this in our little bowl that i got out and you want to fill it up and make it look pretty if they don't eat it all that's fine i want a few of the pimentos on the top all right and now these are just club crackers let me rinse my hands off we'll open up some crackers and uh put on the plate with it and then i'll take a bite these are just kebler club crackers the one on the end is broken i'll eat it in a minute i'm gonna see how fast that is to make something for people that are coming over and then you just put your crackers around it i guess i could have turned them the other way let's turn them the other way everybody loves buttery crackers and cheese and this is easier to make than a cheese ball because you don't have to get the mixer out just make sure that cream cheese is nice and soft so that you can mix it up easy this is just a regular plate but i mean if you have a serving tray you want to use of course you use a serving tray but it looks pretty just on a regular plate that's all there is to it y'all we're gonna have a bite i love pimento cheese and i love chicken salad i love tuna salad i just like everything there's not much i don't like all right we're gonna serve it up with a spoon and i'm just gonna get it out of my bowl over here so i don't mess up my pretty picture all right so let's get us a bite and i'm sure the more it marinates the better it's gonna be this is really good on hamburgers as well if you want to make some delicious hamburgers and mix up some pimento cheese that's a new southern thing in a lot of the restaurants good stuff i can tell you right now that's not gonna last long it is so good everybody's gonna love it and if you put it on a hamburger they'll be excited about that too remember this is in our third cookbook we got lots of good old appetizers um on the website you can just go to the website find the recipe and print it out if you want to if you can't afford to buy a cookbook of course they're free on there all right so we just want to thank you for watching collard valley cooks where we cook like our mama's dad