Cream cheese- a (fast) all-rounder
For creamy pasta dishes
I often roast minced meat and vegetables in a pan and melt paprika and chili cream cheese in it. So the whole thing is nice and spicy and gets a creamy consistency. Who does not like it hot, I recommend herbal cream cheese.
To spice up hearty pastries
Puff pastry pinwheels:
Roll a roll of puff pastry out of the refrigerated rack, spread with cream cheese, spread chopped mushrooms and ham, season, sprinkle with cheese and roll up. Slice the roll and bake at 175 ° C for 15 minutes. If you like, you can still add corn and pepper to the stuffing. Arrives on every buffet great and is ideal for a surprise visit :)
Flammkuchen with a difference:
Slice the bread dough out of the tin, roll out the individual slices and spread with paprika and chili cream cheese. Cover with thin slices of salami and honey marinated onions and bake at 200 ° C for 12 minutes.
For stretching or refining or "thickening" of sauces
If you want to make a cream sauce and have taken a little too much cream, you can add some herb cream cheese, so the whole is pretty creamy. but is not for diets ;-)
As a quick dip to vegetable sticks or savory biscuits or what you still like to dipt
Mix a packet of herbal cream cheese with a cup of shamd, add garlic, and season with spices of your choice (preferably salt, pepper and paprika, pink). Those who like the whole thing a bit more Mediterranean, can add mashed sheep's cheese and a bit of olive oil as well as herbs at will.
My brother loves natural cream cheese with jam on his breakfast roll (as an alternative to butter or margarine)
