Wed 24 March 2004 - Cream cheese
I have an oversupply of cream cheese.
I don’t mind cream cheese on occasions. A week or two ago I was wandering idly through the supermarket and picked up a tub. I’ve dabbed it onto a piece of toast or two. I might just get through it before it expires.
Yesterday at Parliament Station as I came through the ticket barrier, the promotional people were out in force, and they thrust into my hands not one but TWO tubs of… you guessed it: more cream cheese.
Looks like I may be eating cream cheese until the cows come home.
March 24th, 2004 at 10:37pm
Why not toss it through some pasta with some cooked vegetables and/or tinned tomatoes…and garlic! That’d use quite a bit of the tub!
of pouring a bottle of sweet ( and only sweet unless you want to send all your guests home in pain) chili sauce over a block/tub of cream cheese - and attacking it with dry biscuits (Savoys for preference!). A tangle of fresh coriander over the top gives it an even better flavour too. Yummy.
There’s also a trick I learnt recently for a really cheap way of providing snacks for a party or “when unexpected guests pop in”
March 25th, 2004 at 3:49am
Melt some chedder cheese with the cream cheese and trow in some jalapeno peppers, pour that over some tortilla chips and you’ll have some nice quick and simple nachos
March 25th, 2004 at 2:02pm
Or you could make a cheese cake. The spreadable stuff works just as well as the blocks.
March 25th, 2004 at 2:17pm
Yes 750g of cream cheese makes a mighty cheesecake.
We have a lot of plum flavoured cream cheese at home if anyone wants it. It was almost free, direct from the manufacturer.
March 25th, 2004 at 2:39pm
There’s such a thing as an ‘oversupply’ of cream cheese?
March 25th, 2004 at 4:39pm
Last week we had over 150 cheese slices in the house. I didn’t think it was possible to have an oversupply of cheese but around about Sunday afternoon I hit the cheese wall. I never wanted to see another cheese slice in my life, not even those yummy Swiss ones.
March 26th, 2004 at 8:58am
Well we can’t eat it fast enough and it’s going to exceed its use-by date if we don’t do something about it. Although it’s all well sealed with foil lids so it might still be OK.
March 26th, 2004 at 1:08pm
I think the tub of cream cheese with sweet chili sauce is destined to be seen in the same way as cubes of cheese with pickled onions stabbed onto them. Or the devilled eggs of the 60’s.
March 30th, 2004 at 8:23am
In a baking dish:
Smear cream cheese on the bottom.
Top with a can of chili.
Bake until bubbly.
Scoop with tortilla chips and salsa.