Memories can be quite powerful, food memories all the more so. When I use a spice my grandfather often used, or smell a cake like one my grandmother used to bake, I’m there in an instant, right in their kitchen. When Pesach comes, I close my eyes and I can see my grandfather eating matzah with a schmear of whipped cream cheese, a hot mug of sweet creamy coffee beside him.
That is Passover to me: exactly that vision, that aroma, that taste.
I’m a woman of simple pleasures, you know that. Matzah with cream cheese is my Passover delicacy. Has to be whipped cream cheese, of course, cause it’s my favorite and cause otherwise you wind up with a pile of crumbled matzah and a palm full of cream cheese. I was raised on light, airy Temp Tee cream cheese. It’s been part of our Sunday brunches, school lunches, and Pesach breakfast lunch and dinners over the years.
So when I got a call out of nowhere from Temp Tee, I’m thinking, do they know me? Have they been watching me all these years through tiny transmitters on their containers? Turns out–there are no transmitters — and they never dreamed that I’ve had a lifelong devotion to their product, though they were really tickled when I told them. They had called simply to ask if we could work together to help cooks with new creative cream cheese ideas for Passover. You see there’s this thing called matzah fatigue. And it’s a real condition, I tell you. My new Temp Tee friends recognize it too and want to team up to help.
I do love helping people…
So it was a no-brainer for me. I usually stock up on half a dozen containers of cream cheese before Yuntif anyway, just to get us started. It’s especially handy when I “work the house,” as Hubby calls it. He loves when I sub in whatever’s handy in my fridge or cabinets instead of sending him to the store in the snow to buy a pint of sour cream. Ooooooh you shoulda seen him when he found out I only needed three tablespoons of the stuff for a recipe. Big deal! Never saw a man refuse to eat something because it was “made with slave labor.” Anyway, today I know better and strictly adhere to the house rule: Never-Send-Hubby-Out-for-Piddling-Amounts-of-Stuff-Especially-in-a-Blizzard-When-You-Can-Sub-Something-Else. So whenever I get creative, it’s comforting to know I always have CC on hand: it’s so easy to use instead of sour cream, heavy cream, or even ricotta in a pinch. Sometimes I just add it to creamify a recipe. Those Temp Tee folks a knew what they were doing when they called me.
So let’s spread the word about Temp Tee cream cheese this Passover: there are 101 things we can do, but we promise to share at least 50 new ideas from our team and all our blogger friends all in the name of putting an end to the matzah fatigue, a stop to the same ol’ same ol’, although that seemed to be good enough for my grandfather (that generation was much more easily pleased). We are here to save you, the world or at least your Passover with our Temp Tee cream cheese revolution. Too much? Well you know I’m a passionate person when it comes to good food.
Bookmark our growing list of Whipped Cream Cheese Recipes for Passover and check back often for updates. Stay tuned for Pre-Passover Twitter and Facebook chats in real time with me, I can’t wait to talk to you all.
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I have very fond memories of eating Temp Tee cream cheese and lox on New York bagels when it wasn’t Pesach and on matzah during Pesach. Yum!
Love the site…recipes, and glad Jamie joined up with Joy of Kosher
Going to the Lower East Side, before it was fashionable).
Dairy orders from grandparents, aunt, family.
The aroma of fresh butter was worth the cholestorol.
Almost made up for the terrible wine 😀
My favorite Passover memory is eating tons and tons of hardboiled eggs in a variety of places with my beloved mom. The eggs were white and non-decorated and my mother made me appreciate the fact that we were Jewish and therefore, allowed to be different.
TempTee cream cheese and matzah with strawberry jelly–eating it outside with my kids, nephew and nieces in the Florida sunshine during our wonderful visits to my sister’s house.
I have such wonderful memories of cooking with my Bubbie in her basement kitchen. When they remodeled their kitchen she had them move all the old stuff to the basement and that became her Pesach kitchen. Gallons of chicken soup with feet and egglech, hand made matzah noodles. Ooh so many good things, I can smell it all in my memory.
My favorite childhood memories of Passover include TempTee!
Hey, Temptee is not just for Pesach! But on Pesach, when I was a little girl growing up in Atlanta, I remember all of us eating lunch at school during the middle days of Pesach and all of us were eating Temptee with jelly on matzah! We carried our lunch in paper bags and all the nonJewish kids wanting a taste. It seems we were enjoying and laughing so much that everyone wanted to know what was so good!
I’ve never had Temp Tee
This was always laid out with a fancy spreader at my great Aunt’s house. So fancy to a little girl.
Temp Tee on matzah or a bagel ( or anything else!).
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Temtee cc on matzhoh is the best!
I love the creamy taste! Its not too rich
I have never tried this product but would love to make memories
so yummy on an everything bagel
My favorite pesach memory is getting the kids excited about the seder…..with candy and nosh that always gets them to ask/answer questions! They love it!
Temptee cream cheese is a Passover and year round staple in our house. One of my kids is a very picky eater, but give him any bread or cracker with Temptee and he is satisfied. My passover memories are all based on eating meat meals, so I look forward to creating some new ones based on dairy foods.
I have never tried it!
Smoked Salmon Lox with cream cheese is my ultimate FAVORITE! Temp Tee Cream cheese is the smoothest, creamiest indulgence!
One of the best memories of Pesach is Matzah and Cream Cheese for breakfast at my Nana and Papa’s house!
More of a butter on matzah than cream cheese on matzah person
I make an puff pastry onion tart with cream cheese*…I wonder if it’d work with pesach crepes. Might be a fun lunch!
*saute onions and mushrooms until golden, add 8 oz cream cheese until melted, and place into puff pastry/crepes.
Wow, so many Passover memories, I don’t know where to start! Of course they all stem from spending the holiday at my Bubby and Zady’s home, often staying over, chasing my cousins around the backyard, and inviting our BFF’s too, Jewish or not. Although we’re all grown up now and so many relatives have passed on, we still laugh out loud at our mother’s and uncle’s favorite punch lines during the Seder, at which my grandfathe would pretend to be annoyed, but really reveled in having us all there, every year. We never celebrated anywhere else (-:
My greatest memory is spending a Seder while I was in college with the Reverend John Stanley Grauel, a Methodist minister and American Christian Zionist leader. He was a crew member of the famed refugee ship, the SS Exodus-1947, and a secret “Haganah” operative. Having been the only non-Jew aboard and being released first by the British, he is credited with being the first to leak to the news of the Exodus to the press. Grauel is also credited with being the key individual who persuaded the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine to recommend for the Partition Resolution of November 1947, creating the State of Israel.
During the Seder, he told one story after another of his fascinating exploits both in the U.S and Israel. It was a Seder that I will always remember and I make it a point to visit his grave in the German Colony in Yerushalayim whenever I visit Eretz Yisrael.
My greatest memories include those experienced as a child with many cousins… mixing wine with seltzer; fresh gefilte fish WITH the bones; one sedar in Hebrew, the other in Yiddish and just being with family!
I’ve never heard of Temp Tee before.
Thanks for the contest.
I have never tried Temp Tee.
A good recipe using this cream cheese would be, to spread it on large sliced salami and roll up, just a plain quick and easy appetizer.
I have never used Temp Tee before and would love to try it.
I guess I should know about it but never heard of it until today….
Pinned:
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I have never heard of it but it sound scrumptious
I always remember matzoh with temp-tee cream cheese and smoked salmon with a slice of vidalia onion and tomatoes.
I have never tried it before, so I have no memories…yet! 🙂
I remember temp tee and apricot preserves spread on my mothers pesach rolls. Heavy and eggy, these rolls are like mini kugels.and we kids were able to spread the soft whipped cream cheese on it ourselves. Might not be gourmet but it was delicious.
I know it is Passover when I take out all my Passover things and my wood chopping blocks & wood bowels come out. They have been around since my mother was a young child, over 100 years ago. They have a certain smell that jogs my memory.
One of my favorite memories is my grown daughter as a one year old sitting in her high chair eating cream cheese on matza and it is all over her face.
Temptee is good on anything any time as well as Passover but it is ext on chocolate chip cookies or apple slices
I have temptee cream cheese in my house at all times so I’m still making memories 🙂
Always had Temptee on matzah..so easy to spread
Cream cheese and jelly on lady fingers. Amazingly close to cheesecake and no baking or prep required.
Matza with temptee and nova,tomatoes, onions and/or peppers. Also matzah rolls with temptee and jelly.
As a picky eater, Ever since I can remember I survive pesach by eating machine Matza with whipped cream cheese and cinnamon sugar sprinkled on top!
This will be very first Passover- and in true Grace fashion, my fiance and I will be hosting 4 days after an out of state move, and we still don’t have a dining table. I’m very excited though, and I know that my mom’s celery sticks stuffed with cream cheese and chopped olives will be perfect quick prep appetizers for everyone.
Memory I thin of most: having Passover at my grandma’s house and creeping under the table with my cousin Leslie to tickle the grownups’ feet. So much for the Haggadah reading! But I must have gotten something out of it because I love everything about Passover. And Temp Tee? Well, it was always a big deal at our house, Passover or not. Lox and Temp Tee on matzo. What a treat!
During Passover my family lives on Temp Tee cream cheese. Not only is it great on Matzah, but it’s also great on strawberries. It’s a much healthier alternative than all the processed foods they sell during the holiday.
Mine was from erev pesach – we had baked potatoes with a huge array of toppings – different cheeses, butters, cream cheeses, sour cream, etc
oops thats not kosher for pesach- i guess it would be good on matza too- and since matza is crunchy-no need to toast… 🙂
weird cream cheese memory- but when i was 8, i used to shmear cream cheese on bread and top with dried onion flakes and put it in a toaster oven for a minute…sounds weird but i remember liking it…
I have to be honest – I dont use anything processed on Pesach, and have not for so many years I can hardly remember a time when I did. For me, my memories of Pesach are of the sheer volume of raw product I break down each year- the cases of apples, pears and potatoes of all kinds. Squeezing gallons of orange juice and a quart or two of lemon and lime juice for flavorings and ices. The cases of red and white wine I buy for marinating and cooking – the actual products I make. The actual cooking, if that makes sense? When I have all 4 burners going, my oven is full, and I have all my counters and tables filled with stuff that needs to be prepped or is cooling. That for me is what I remember of Passover.