Pimento Cheese Tomato Pie Galette

This unique, delicious tomato pie galette with pimento cheese from Dale Gray’s cookbook South of Somewhere (Simon & Schuster, 2023) is inspired by nostalgia. The person behind this recipe, Miss Dixie, left behind handwritten, homemade recipes, including a tomato pie, when she sold her colorful, Mississippi home to Gray and her husband. While most traditional tomato pies incorporate both mayonnaise and cheese into the filling, this recipe streamlines the process by opting for pimento cheese instead, which delivers the same rich cheesiness without overpowering the fresh tomatoes. Gray makes her own pimento cheese for this, but feel free to use a store-bought version (Gray recommends Palmetto brand pimento cheese).