"How about that sour cream spread?" I suggested, fishing for other blog post ideas from my better half.
"Sour cream? It's cream cheese," snapped Sonia.
I often take it upon myself to correct the wifey when she misspeaks, so it's only fair when she returns the favor.
And I mean, she's right. It's a tub of cream cheese, like for spreading on bagels. It's not technically sour cream, nor is there any sour cream in it. And it's great for toast, bagels, English muffins, etc. But I've also used it as a chip dip. It's a little too thick for most chips just straight out of the tub, but if you nuke it for a bit, it gets nice and soft. Neither of us have topped a baked potato with it, but I bet it would work for that, too.
If such as thing as sour cream cream cheese ever existed, I'm certain it would taste a lot like this stuff. I don't know if you'd need to keep that redundant "cream" right there in the middle of the product title, but I think it would work either way. "Sour cream and onion" and "sour cream and chives" have long been favorite flavors of mine for chips, dips, biscuits, and loaded baked potato toppers. It makes a great breakfast bread spread as well, in case you were wondering.
There are visible green bits of chives throughout the cream cheese, although the overall texture is nice and smooth. I wouldn't have minded a "chunky style" with even larger and more ubiquitous onion and chive chunks, but then I'm weird like that, and I looove me some onions and chives. There is a scrumptious tangy, oniony flavor, and it's plenty creamy, too.
It's not going to go with most fruit-flavored bagels or jellies. It pairs best with plain or everything style bagels and breads, or maybe even something with a bit of asiago cheese. We can definitively report that it does indeed go well with EBTB seasoning also.
Sonia's gonna try glazing some fish with it this week, and then covering with panko crumbs. Four stars from her.
Repeat purchase? Perhaps. $1.99 for the tub. Four stars from me too.
Bottom line: 8 out of 10.
I wish for the great of success in all of our destiny endeavors
ReplyDeleteI love this for cooking as well and use it in all kinds of things for that creamy onion flavor and the price is right! I do use it on my baked potatoes and add it in to mashed potatoes as well. STEPS up the taste- It will not disappoint!
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