The CookingBites recipe challenge: cream cheese

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

I would say so!

Well I’ve ordered some whole milk on a click n collect tomoz, and I’ll have a crack at it
Added some smoked peppered mackerel fillets to the order because I’m gonna need to do something with it and I do like mackerel pâté!
Now I just have to see if the week will leave me alone for long enough to try it out!

 

[TastyReuben]

Windigo - is mascarpone allowed?

 

[msmofet]

Windigo - is mascarpone allowed?

For cream cheese?

 

[TastyReuben]

For cream cheese?

Yes, since it’s Italian cream cheese (I’m assuming it’ll be ok). Thought I’d ask, though, since all my cookbooks list them separately.

 

[Windigo]

Yes, since it’s Italian cream cheese (I’m assuming it’ll be ok). Thought I’d ask, though, since all my cookbooks list them separately.

Yes, any type of cream cheese.

A cream cheese generally is a soft spreadable cheese without a crust and with a fat content of 40% or more. There are some exceptions but that is a good rule. Goats cream cheese is OK too in my book.

 

[Windigo]

For those who can't find cream cheese, here's a recipe of how to make it out of yoghurt:
Homemade Labneh - Love and Lemons

Or for the vegans, cashew nuts:
Easy Vegan Cream Cheese

 

[Morning Glory]

This recipe is well rated, uses normal milk and looks super easy

How to Make Cream Cheese (The Easiest Cream Cheese Recipe)

So easy I’m temped to have a go, does cream cheese count as an entry for the ingredient cream cheese?

Yeah its easy. I've done it many times. If you have a jam staining kit it is useful but a sieve will suffice. I did make some that I smoked once (I used my handheld smoking machine (Heston Blumenthal brand).

It was goat's milk I used and you can see the rather final recipe I made here: Recipe - Applewood Smoked Goat’s Curd with Lacy Whey Pancake and Plum Chutney

 

[TastyReuben]

Ok, I have a starter, main, and dessert chosen…as well as a sort of “special event” using cream cheese here, there, and everywhere. Let’s hope I’m ambitious enough.

 

[Windigo]

Ok, I have a starter, main, and dessert chosen…as well as a sort of “special event” using cream cheese here, there, and everywhere. Let’s hope I’m ambitious enough.

That sounds interesting, looking forward to seeing the result!

 

[TastyReuben]

All right, my first one should make its appearance Saturday Sunday. What wine…?

ETA: Delipair tells me…a Riesling! Yes! Our favorite type of wine!

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Yeah its easy. I've done it many times. If you have a jam staining kit it is useful but a sieve will suffice. I did make some that I smoked once (I used my handheld smoking machine (Heston Blumenthal brand).

It was goat's milk I used and you can see the rather final recipe I made here: Recipe - Applewood Smoked Goat’s Curd with Lacy Whey Pancake and Plum Chutney

Oh that looks goooood

I hadn't thought of smoking it but I did buy two different types of milk so I'd have enough to smoke one of them.

When's the next sunny day?
Answer for UK members- one day if you're lucky

 

[badjak]

I have made yoghurt before, from milk.
But also cream cheese. I had just forgotten.
From something called lacto mabisi, sort of sour milk.
I'll try to find it

 

[Windigo]

Oh that looks goooood

I hadn't thought of smoking it but I did buy two different types of milk so I'd have enough to smoke one of them.

When's the next sunny day?
Answer for UK members- one day if you're lucky

Same here. It's the wettest year on record.

 

[karadekoolaid]

When's the next sunny day?

Probably the 31st June

 

[JAS_OH1]

Yes, any type of cream cheese.

A cream cheese generally is a soft spreadable cheese without a crust and with a fat content of 40% or more. There are some exceptions but that is a good rule. Goats cream cheese is OK too in my book.

I adore creamy goat cheese!