"cream cheese" news and stories

Isn't it funny how you eat something a lot as a kid but you drift away from it as an adult? I'm not talking about something sugary and child-like, like certain cereals or candy bars or Yoo-Hoo. I'm talking about staples such as fruit or milk.

Case in point: blueberries! I used to eat these a lot as a kid, not just in cereals but as a snack, finishing off an entire pint while watching The Courtship of Eddie's Father. This is a recipe for Blueberry Salad, from Pixie Collins (via the KVBC site). It's more of a fruit salad than one based in lettuce and tomatoes, and includes cream cheese and walnuts.

No, it's not a new rap artist or the name of an old Burt Reynolds TV show*. It's a recipe from Shirley over at Mom's Best Recipes.

You don't get many recipes that include pasta, bacon, cream cheese, and Italian dressing, so this sounds intriguing. Basically any excuse to eat bacon and cream cheese I guess, though part of me thinks that the combo of bacon and cream cheese (plus Parmesan cheese!) could be a little overwhelming. It could be one of those situations where you love all of the ingredients individually but might not like them all together. But I'm going to give this one a shot this weekend.

I've never been a fan of frozen bagels. I don't care if you can toast them and they get all crunchy, I still like the bagels you get in the bread aisle, not frozen. They just taste better to me for some reason, and you can even eat them without toasting them.

So when I saw Kraft's new Bagel-fuls in the frozen food section, I was already thinking they might not be that great. But I bought them to see how they'd taste (for science and you readers, of course). First of all, if you store these bagel tubes filled with cream cheese in the freezer, you have to microwave them. You can't put them in the toaster unless they've already been thawed a bit, so if they're frozen you have to nuke them for 20 seconds.

How do they taste? They sorta taste like fried dough, not exactly bagel-ish. They're not bad, they'll do in a pinch I guess, but give me a regular bagel and I'll toast it and spread the cream cheese on myself.

There was a time - say, up to the age of 35 - that I didn't like either cheesecake or pumpkin pie. Maybe our taste buds change over time, but now I love both of them. You have to watch me or I'll eat an entire cheesecake myself.

Here's a recipe that sort of combines the best of both of those worlds, Double Layer Pumpkin Cheesecake. And it's pretty easy, especially if you use a can of pumpkin pie filling like some of the reviewers at the AllRecipes site suggest (it has a lot of the spices already in it). Full recipe after the jump.

Is your family totally devoted to canned cranberry sauce, despite all your best efforts to sway them to the world of orange-scented homemade compote? If so, maybe you're looking for a way to spice up that cranberry sauce (because serving it in the shape of the can does leave something to be desired). Paula Deen, in her trademark over-the-top style, has come up with a new way of serving canned cranberry sauce. Here's how she described it in a USA Today column.

"I gave a twist to cranberry sauce one year. You take a can of the jellied sauce and slice it in quarter-inch pieces. Then you mix up cream cheese and hot sauce and a little mayo, and you make up sandwiches - no bread, just the cheese mix in between cranberries."

Sounds like an interesting approach to cranberry sauce to me, although the purists would have a heart attack if you suggested adulterating their precious canned sauce with mayo and cream cheese.

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