Thank you for sharing your take on this dip!

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Yes! If you haven’t tried my Pimento Cheese

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We had this recently with takeout and we’ve been obsessed ever since. I made your recipe tonight and it was spot on and delish! Thanks so much for the great recipe, super easy as well!

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With a Costco-sized vat of feta and several forgotten peppers on the line, I hoped for the best, even though I was using the wrong texture of cheese and I don’t have a food processor/the healthy shoulder joints to combine it by hand. I made it in my mom’s ancient Osterizer blender, and that poor thing started emitting the saddest little noises, but it persevered! Do not use a blender unless, like me, you have no choice. Not unless you want to smell metal.

My first attempt (as you wrote it) was pleasant, but still not as zingy as what I remembered. I had some jalapenos and garlic that needed to be finished so I threw caution to the wind and added those, since I knew they would work (Let me explain: there is an amazing Greek restaurant in D.C. that spawned a national, fast casual chain called Cava– they make a different, also legendary dip called “Crazy Feta” with Dodonis feta, jalapenos, onion…it is addictive and something like $12 for a small container at Whole Foods IF yours is lucky enough to carry it ).

Since I was already disrespecting your instructions, I remembered what a late Greek aunt once told me and threw in some Greek pepperoncini brine, with the four jalapenos and multiple garlic cloves and BAM. There it was. The dip I’ve searched everywhere for, since the late ’90s. I know it’s a cliche to leave a comment on a recipe blog bragging about how you used wholly unrelated ingredients, but two things:

1) on the off-chance someone else from D.C. is reading this, I want them to be delighted, too

2) This sort of riffing is not possible without a bedrock of greatness (you! your hard work!!) and a decent palate/some skills in the kitchen. I knew what I wanted, but had no way to get there until today. You, Kate, are the wind beneath my orange cheese-stained wings. Thank you. I’m so happy you lit the way for me with your outstanding blog. I HAVE SO MUCH HTIPITI I AM ECSTATIC.

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