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[majikero]

I still have a half block of cream cheese from Cosco. What can I do with it before it goes bad?

[MaximumZero]

I still have a half block of cream cheese from Cosco. What can I do with it before it goes bad?

Take very thin slices of ham, smear a bit on the ham, roll, insert toothpick vertically.

Boom. Instant ham-roll- hors d'oeuvres.

[Sappho]

Mix with a smushed avocado and some minced garlic (or garlic powder) or salt. Let it sit for an hour then enjoy a fantastic spread for bread or dip for chips.

[itisnotlogical]

I am absolutely sick of popcorn, but I still have plenty of it. What can I do to make it a little more bearable? The bags I have are of kettle corn, if that makes a difference.

In return: Kidney beans, powdered cheese (like for spaghetti) and ketchup are good together on tacos, especially ones on corn tortillas.

[Sappho]

Was feeling depressed, didn't want to go out to buy more food, so I threw this together with what I had. Turned out AMAZING.

Sautee an onion (chopped fine) in olive oil until it starts getting soft.
Add a few cloves of garlic and a good chunk of ginger (chopped fine) and some sweet potato (cubed - I used half of a large potato), plus a couple of spoons of Chinese five spice powder, along with a bit of chili pepper if you like spice. Continue to sautee for a few more minutes.
Pour in a cup of red lentils and two cups of water (you want extra water for sauce, so you may need to add more later). Bring to a boil then cover and simmer for about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Near the end, add a pinch of salt and stir it in (don't put it in earlier or the lentils won't be as soft). When the sweet potatoes are soft, it's finished.

Serve over rice. DELICIOUS.

[Sappho]

Turns out cream cheese and eggs go really well together. My lunch:

A whole wheat roll (full of seeds and such) sliced in half. Cream cheese mixed with a little butter and some minced spring onions spread on the bread. Fried spring onions and mushrooms in butter, with 2 eggs scrambed in. Eggs poured on top of the cream cheese, eaten like an open-faced sandwich, super tasty (and salt-free, except for a little in the bread).

[penguinofhonor]

Can you just fry scallions like that? I thought they were too planty.

That definitely sounds tasty, though. I've been meaning to buy some mushrooms and it'd be a good excuse to.

[Sappho]

I fry spring onions all the time. You just have to make sure you don't cook them too long and burn them. Scallions are different, but I think they'd probably fry even better than spring onions.

I put mushrooms in just about everything. Yaaayyyyyy mushrooms!

[penguinofhonor]

Scallions (also known as green onions, spring onions, salad onions, table onions, green shallots, onion sticks, long onions, baby onions, precious onions, yard onions, gibbons, or syboes)

Also I'm calling them gibbons from now on.

[Sappho]

I'm afraid this is one of those instances where Wikipedia is wrong: http://archives.record-eagle.com/2007/may/21onions.htm

Spring onions have a round bulb on the bottom. Scallions are straight all the way down. However, they are similar enough that you can use either one for a recipe.

[Haspen]

Oh yes, fried onion, the wonderful sweet-spicy taste of it.

I like to add it to certain meats and fried mushrooms, or pierogi !

[MaximumZero]

I'm afraid this is one of those instances where Wikipedia is wrong: http://archives.record-eagle.com/2007/may/21onions.htm

You know anyone can edit that problem, right? Wikipedia is rife with inconsistencies.

[Sappho]

Yes, it is. I suppose I could edit it and fix it but it would just be changed again at some other point.

Anyway, I had some strawberries that were starting to get too mushy to eat, so I cut out the bad parts, smushed them up, boiled them with some water for a while, threw in some mint leaves for a few minutes, then took the mint out and put the solids and liquids in two separate bottles. Voila, homemade strawberry-mint jam (a little bitter because I intentionally didn't add sugar and most of the sweetness goes to the liquid) and strawberry-mint syrup. Takes about 25 minutes start to finish, goes great with yogurt and ice cream and on toast and all sorts of things, and the syrup is yummy just mixed with water or your favorite alcohol (vodka and anything fruit-flavored work excellently). Yum!

[penguinofhonor]

Oh my god this is delicious

Spoiler: Sappho's Spring Onion Sandwich (Open Face) (Penguin's Scallion Remix) (click to show/hide)

If any images are upside-down, imgur is just taking forever to update them.

Shiitake mushrooms and scallions instead of spring onions. I don't know green onion breeds very well. Also toast because I have some good wheat bread.


The cream cheese spread has been spread.


Chopped it up, sauteed it for a bit, scrambled some eggs on it. I also added a bit of fresh thyme and dried oregano. This was amazing and I recommend it.

Cream cheese and eggs go together amazingly. I never would have guessed this.

[Sappho]

Oh no, third image is broken! Looks amazing though. I should start taking pictures of my food and make a cookbook! Glad you enjoyed the sandwich as much as me. : ) Sooo tasty!