Cream cheese on summer sausage.
Fresh strawberries dipped in balsamic vinegar (powdered sugar is nice added to this combo.)
Slices of tomato, mozzarella, and oranges, arranged in alternating layers, drizzled with balsamic vinegar and sprinkled with chopped fresh basil.
Also, a brick of cream cheese covered in jalapeno jelly. Spectacular on crackers.
I like to mix cottage cheese with half sharp paprika, or with a tiny amount of vanilla and splenda as mock icecream, or with drained pear chunks from one of those individual serving cups [I prefer pears to peaches.]
Green peas added to pasta carbonara. Yummo!
(It would never have occurred to me. I had it in a restaurant in Kathmandu, many years ago. Have been adding them ever since!)
Yes!!
Try it with pineapple jelly, peppercorns, cream cheese, and horseradish. My mom aways made it, calling it “Jezebel dip”.
Garlic, lemon, and cream sauce for pasta. It gets wonderfully spicy.
Fried chicken livers and sharp cheddar.
cream cheese and bacon on a bagel
Good yogurt (i.e., yogurt that contains nothing but milk products and bacteria) topped with real maple syrup or honey. Garnish with nuts if you like.
Goat cheese and fig jam.
Smoked fish and good cream cheese (like the yogurt, i.e. nothing but milk product and microorganisms).
Anything involving bread is improved by using a high-quality whole-wheat bread, with or without extra seeds.
Hmmm. Nice call, never tried that but skip goes very well with a plum sauce, so I can see it working.
tomatoes and salt
sliced fruit, lemon juice, salt, and cayenne pepper
bread and butter
bread and olive oil
onions and butter - slowly caramelized
Hmmm. Nice call, never tried that but skip goes very well with a plum sauce, so I can see it working.
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They both have a great earthy flavour, is what it is I think. Also 'roo and sautéed mushrooms.
The trick with 'roo itself is to marinate it first (we buy it that way), slice it thinly, and only cook it briefly - a minute or so each side. Very easy to overcook, which makes it almost inedible.
Spreadable/room temp Brie and red grapes. So delicious!
Olive oil and Balsamic vinegar with crusty white bread. I also love crusty white bread and a green salad dripping with vinaigrette, sopping up the dressing with the bread.
Peanut butter and bacon sandwiches.
Balsamic vinaigrette and blue cheese make a great salad dressing. The contrast makes the taste all sharp and sparkly.
Avocado and soy sauce. Simple and surprisingly tasty.
Put a tub of cream cheese in front of you. May use flavored cream cheese, i.e., pineapple, strawberry. Chive or jalapeno… dunno about that.
Take banana in one hand, butter knife/spreader in the other. Bite off the end of banana to create flat-ish surface. Spread cream cheese on end of banana. Eat. Spread more cheese on newly exposed end. Eat.
Continue in like manner until banana is consumed. You are permitted to get a second banana (someone like Phil Silvers would be good- ba-da-bing!)
toasted bagel with cream cheese and sliced pickled garlic.
breakfast sausage and mashed potatoes.
pasta with olive oil and Parmesan cheese. Onions and butter too.
saltines and butter.
spinach sauted in olive oil and garlic served with a poached egg.