Flavor Profiles

Pretty Pimentos

Another happy farmer’s market find, the pimento pepper seen here was delicious.  I confess, I had never seen a pimento outside of a stuffed green olive.   It’s a little sweeter than your standard pepper, and this batch at least was quite petite.  They’re maybe a couple of inches across, and a gorgeous shiny scarlet.  I was originally hoping to stuff them (perhaps with olives – as a friend said, turnabout is fair play) but they didn’t have much of a cavity in the middle.  So instead we grilled them up with a bunch of other veg, and they were quite tasty.  Since they were more expensive than run-of-the-mill bell peppers, and not wildly different and better, I wouldn’t go out of my way to get them again, but if you happen to get some, they are quite enjoyable.

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