spreads

Super Bowl Menu: Dips and Spreads

Dips to go with your dippable Super Bowl recipes
Feb 5, 2012 10:31 am
pimento cheese recipe

Which is more important: the dip or the dippee? False, it's both. Same goes for spreads. The one exception is Spinach Artichoke Balls, our favorite tailgating recipe of the season. That has dip built in. Or it is dip. Either way, exempt.

Have A Heart: Artichoke Pesto

Test your pesto skills, artichokes are game
Jan 13, 2012 12:31 pm
artichoke pesto

Some of the best dishes I've ever made were born of having nothing in the kitchen...or so I thought. Cue cooking show intro music.

Pinwheel Sandwiches Are Not Dumb

Stand your sandwich ground and roll up a pinwheel
Jan 12, 2012 12:31 pm
pinwheel sandwiches

I was going to write a column about taco salads once, and how they're a smart alternative to showering your laptop with cheddar crumbs and shredded iceburg.

Bacon Marmalade On Everything

Finally, a product that lives up to bacon's name
Dec 29, 2011 12:31 pm
bacon marmalade

The photo to your left is 30 pounds of finest chopped bacon you will ever find. This, along with caramelized onions and spices, will be confited until it becomes what is known to a lucky few as bacon marmalade.

Country Ham Spread Recipe

Sweet and salty Southern ham gets chopped
Oct 13, 2011 2:01 pm
country ham salad
Photo: Kendra Bailey Morris

Instead of using smoked ham, which is most commonly incorporated into this classic mixture of mayo, mustard and spices, I substitute salt-cured country ham and blend it with sweet honey mustard and relish, which gives the mixture a lovely salty-meets-sweet flavor. Try this country ham spread on crackers or fill small rolls for an easy, crowd-pleasing appetizer platter.

Pimento Cheese Recipe

Cheddar, cream cheese, mayo & pimentos, unite!
Sep 30, 2011 3:01 pm
pimento cheese
Photo: Kendra Bailey Morris

When it comes to whipping up pimento cheese, Southern folks are quick to argue its components. While everything from jalapenos and horseradish to onion and bacon grease (yes, you heard that correctly) have flavored this spread, it’s the classic combination of sharp cheddar, mayo and pimentos along with a dash of cream cheese and cayenne pepper that does it for me.

Americans for Marmite!

One man's relationship with the love or hate spread
Jun 30, 2011 8:31 am
bottle of marmite
photo: RHiNO NEAL on Flickr

One morning, when my mother-in-law, Cyrena, was staying over at our place, I decided to give her a culinary treat. She’s Chinese, so this is a woman who can eat chicken feet or intestines with aplomb, and I wanted to introduce her to my own somewhat unconventional food passion: Marmite. I spread some on her toast. She tasted it.

And then...

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