6 hard-cooked eggs

1/3 cup mayonnaise

1 teaspoon mustard or 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard

1 tablespoon chopped pimento

Salt and pepper to taste

Peel eggs and slice lengthwise. Remove yolk to small bowl and break up the yolk with the back of a fork. Combine mayonnaise, mustard, salt, and pepper in small dish and add to the yolk with fork mixing in until creamy. Add pimento and mix carefully. With a teaspoon, fill each egg white and arrange on serving plate or on a bed of lettuce on a serving plate.

Yield: 12 halves or 6 servings

First Published March 19, 2002, 9:25 a.m.