Sunday, May 16, 2010

Tony's Pimento Cheese recipe

Ingredients:

8oz Pimentos
8oz Extra Sharp Yellow Cheddar Cheese
8oz Extra Sharp White Cheddar Cheese
2/3 cup of Mayonnaise
1 Tsp Fresh Cracked Black Pepper
1 Tsp Cayenne Pepper
2 Tsp Fresh Cracked Kosher Salt

Tools:

Cheese grater
Spatula
Large mixing bowl
Sealable container

Instructions:

Grate both blocks of cheese into large mixing bowl.
Add Salt, Black and Cayenne Peppers to taste.
Fold 10-15 times, until spices are integrated with cheese.
Chop, drain and add Pimentos, again folding 10-15 times to integrate with cheese.
Add Mayonnaise and fold, until combined thoroughly, with Pimentos evenly distributed.
Move mixture to container, cover with plastic wrap and container lid.

Refrigerate at least 2 hours, for flavors to mature. Overnight is best.

Spread on your favorite bread, crackers or use as a sandwich compliment. Most importantly, enjoy and share the recipe with friends and family!

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P.S. - My favorite way to enjoy this delicious treat is on a wheat bread square, cut diagonally, spread about 1/4" thick, with a glass of milk.

P.P.S. - Feel free to download, print and share in any way you want to.

Thanks,
Tony Burkhart 
:)

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Ronnie James Dio, Rock Singer, Dies at 67 - ArtsBeat Blog

Ronnie James Dio in 2007.Sandro Campardo/Keystone, via Associated Press Ronnie James Dio in 2007.

Ronnie James Dio, a singer with the bands Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio, whose powerful, semioperatic vocal style and attachment to demonic imagery made him one of the best-loved figures in classic heavy metal, died on Sunday morning, according to an announcement on his Web site by his wife, Wendy. He was 67.

No cause was given in the announcement, but Mr. Dio had been suffering from stomach cancer, and recently his band Heaven and Hell canceled its summer tour because of his health. The Houston Chronicle reported that Mr. Dio was being treated at a hospital in Houston.

Mr. Dio was born Ronald James Padavona in Portsmouth, N.H., and grew up in Cortland, N.Y. He began his career in rockabilly bands in the late 1950s, but by the mid-1970s, when Ritchie Blackmore, the guitarist of the British band Deep Purple, hired him to sing for his new band, Rainbow, Mr. Dio had become a heavy-metal purist, and he became known as much for his vocal prowess as for his Mephistophelean stage persona. He is widely credited with popularizing the “devil horn” hand gesture — index and pinky fingers up, everything else clenched in a fist — as a symbol of metal’s occult-like worship of everything scary and heavy.

Mr. Dio sang about devils, defiance and the glory of rock ‘n’ roll with a strong, mean voice, punctuating his points with gale-force vibrato, a style derived in part from singers like Deep Purple’s Ian Gillan. When Ozzy Osborne was fired from Black Sabbath in 1979, Mr. Dio replaced him, and by 1983 he released the album “Holy Diver” with his own band, Dio. In various lineup configurations, the band Dio continued to release material in the mid-2000s.

In 2006 he began playing with some of his former band mates in Black Sabbath, naming the group Heaven and Hell after the title of the first Black Sabbath album on which Mr. Dio appeared. Heaven and Hell released one album, “The Devil You Know,” in 2009.

Other than his wife, no information about his survivors was immediately available on Sunday afternoon.

Sad day for the rock community

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