I'm looking for ideas! Besides bagels, what else do you use cream cheese for?
Use 1: canned corn mixed with cream cheese & salsa
Use 2: substitute for butter/ shredded cheese for extra creamy grits
Use 3: Harry & David dips
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I use it in so many of my crockpot meals since it melts at a good consistency compared to other cheeses.
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@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: cream cheese frosting
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Dip!!!!
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Stroganoff!
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I like adding a bit to mashed potatoes. Extra creamy and a nice little tang.
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Oreo truffles, buffalo chicken dip.... All the healthy things
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@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: make these - so good!
http://iowagirleats.com/2011/07/24/cheesecake-stuffed-strawberries/
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@sandy: I make something similar with marscapone cheese, but I bet cream cheese would stretch my dollar!
@Mrs. J: I've only ever used sour cream to dissappointing results. The trick has probably been cream cheese all this time!
Keep 'em coming. These are all great ideas!!
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Peanut butter dip for apples (peanut butter, cream cheese, brown sugar, vanilla, optional walnuts)
I used to eat cream cheese and jelly sandwiches as a kid (hello Lenten Fridays).
Crab Rangoon dip
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Smother it with jalapeño jelly and eat it with Triscuits!
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@Mrs. J: wait, you pimp out apples & peanut butter? Genius!
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One of my favorite appetizers is to take prosciutto, smear with cream cheese and then wrap around the stalks of asparagus. Bake until crispy. It's amazing.
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Stuffed chicken breasts with cream cheese and dried apricots, then pan fried, with a pan sauce made with the juices/ gooey, oozed out cream cheese...
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I recently made a jalapeno mac and cheese that used cream cheese in the sauce and it was SO SO SO good! I made it for a party and got a ton of compliments
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Cream cheese, lunch meat, salsa, spinach, tortilla pi wheels
Cheesecake
Toast with jelly
Waffle with sliced strawberries
Now I'm hungry.ETA: you can freeze it, too. Did you buy too much cream cheese? Now I'm hungry AND curious
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Cream cheese makes the base for the best muffins. Or you can just bake regular muffins and drop a chunk in the middle to get a little Danish filling thing going on. Cheesecake bites where you line the bottom of a cupcake liner with a Nilla wafer or Oreo
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These are so yummy too!
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@nana87: recipe please!
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add it to spaghetti sauce!
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I love wheat thins dipped in salsa and cream cheese!
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@Mrs. Bee: okay, curious...tomato sauce?
I use it for pasta, in a smoked salmon sauce. I sautee onions, add some chicken stock, melt cream cheese, add frozen peas, season and then pour over cooked pasta. Then I stir in the smoked salmon.
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@MrsSRS: ha ha yes! A little goes a long way and there's only two of us.
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@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: yes! It tastes kind of like caramel apples.
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@looch: yes it is a popular recipe called million dollar spaghetti that i saw on pinterest. usually i just use cheese, but if i don't have cheese on hand, i'll put in some cream cheese!
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We eat it on toast with avocado and scrambled eggs.
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@erinbaderin: yum!
It is tasty thrown in a tomato pasta sauce. I use it to make a no bake cheesecake-cottage cheese and cream cheese mixed with vanilla and a few tablespoons of icing sugar. Spread in a pre-cooked graham cracker crust and topped with whatever pie filling flavour you like!
It's good mixed with some other things for an apple dip.
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I will put cream cheese on just about everything. Two unique things I use it for is:
Cream cheese pizza - using either premade crust or crust you make and parbake, spread a thin layer of cream cheese on the crust before you add pizza sauce and whatever other toppings. It's subtle, but delicious!
I put a few dollops of cream cheese on really spicy lo-mein and nuke it in the microwave a few seconds. When I stir it together it makes a thicker creamy sauce that balances out the heat.
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Mix it with salsa and shredded chicken
in addition to all the junky options like cheesecake, dips, fruit pizza, NOM NOM NOM
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So tonight's dinner will be @farawayyama: stuffed chicken- adding dried cherries b/c I have them on hand and @Tanjowen: prosciutto wrapped asparagus along with regular asparagus b/c "bacon" makes everything tastes better.
I can't wait to try out the other recipes too.
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@TemperanceBrennan: how spicy are the bacon wrapped jalapeños? My family does not appreciate my crostini dip appetizers, but these may go over way better.
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@sandy: This is the recipe! http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchens/creamy-jalapeno-popper-macaroni-and-cheese.html except I left the Gruyere out and just used more cheddar since I don't love Swiss cheese, and I didn't use the pickled jalapeños bc it was already really spicy with the fresh ones (I did use the pickled jalapeño juice though, it was really spicy after that)
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@TemperanceBrennan: @Mrs. Lemon-Lime: Oh man, bacon wrapped jalapenos are freaking delicious. I use a teeny tiny 1/4 tsp (metal one) to scrape out all the seeds and membranes so we have some non spicy ones. If you leave it in, though, they can be hot as hell. I totally forgot how good these are!
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@Mrs. Bee: aha! Thank you...i might have to try it!
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@erinbaderin: this was my breakfast this morning!
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Oh, I also make this tomato soup: http://julia.typepad.com/scrambled/2009/11/almost-instant-tomato-soup.html and then stir half a package of cream cheese into it - it makes it deliciously creamy.
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@simplyfelicity: i binge hard on wheat thins and cream cheese! Could easily polish off a box of wheat thins
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Super easy and delicious fruit dip. Mix 8 oz cream cheese with a jar of marshmallow fluff. Sooo good!
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@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: Ok, this does not sound appealing but I promise it is. I read on a blog recently to put some chive cream cheese in between your regular cheese when grilling grilled cheese. You cant *really* taste it but it makes the whole thing gooier!
We tried it and it was so good!
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@wrkbrk: that sounds like a winner to me! I'll definitely try it.
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