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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Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post and giveaway as part of a partnership with Temp Tee Whipped Cream Cheese. All thoughts and opinions expressed are my own.
Temptee cheese cake or just plain old temptee and jelly on Passover rolls. Fondest memory every year is when I take out my Pesach boxes and unwrap my grandmother’s big wood bowl. We only use it to make the haroset and it is stained slightly red from the wine. I also have her chopper. They are both very old.
It wasn’t Passover growing up until we had matzah with TempTee cream cheese. It was the only time that we would get it.
Gefilte fish dip. It’s a mixture of gefilte fish, TempTee, red horseradish and a little lemon juice. Great with chips or spread on matza. It’s a lovely pink color and no one knows what it is when they see it.
When I was younger my mom would buy Temp Tee cream c cheese for Pesach. I loved eating it on shatzer hand baked matzah with strawberry jelly!!
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I remember eating Temp Tee Cream Cheese on bagels with my grandmother and talking.
We always used TT through the year. It is especially good at Passover on Matzoh with fresh ground pepper. Matzoh with TT with chopped herring.
My special memory is rubbing matzoh with fresh cut onion,smearing it with chicken schmaltz, sprinkling with salt. The ultimate Passover treat.
I have never heard of it.. It sounds like a food I would like
I use it as spackle when I put up dry wall. Sure it smells in the summertime, but thats all its good for.
My “ONLY” memory of Temp tee cream cheese is on Pesach before we started going away to a hotel. It was such a treat to be able to eat such amazing cream cheese on matzah throughout the whole pesach! Once we went to a hotel, we pretty much never bought it but now that I am living in Israel and making my own Pesach for the first time I am having a friend bring me a few containers so I can whip up some amazing dishes with the cream cheese thanks to all the ideas you guys posted!! I am so excited. Next job is importing it to Israel ASAP!
Cream cheese recipes are the best!
actually i’ve never heard of it
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Sheet of matzah, spread with temptee, and a layer of American cheese! Best snack!
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To be honest, I’ve never heard of it. It sounds delicious.
My grandmother started this and my daughter loves t to this day.. Scrambled eggs with cream cheese.. but of course, we always ate matzoh with whipped cream cheese too!
Sometimes I put it on flatbread instead of a sauce and top like I would pizza!
Aunt Frances made the Seder every year when I was young. She was a wonderful lady and an amazing cook. She must have spent weeks preparing those meals for so many people. Everything always came out perfect because that’s Aunt Frances. Every year, one of the many Seder desserts was a frozen chocolate parfait with coconut topping. I’m sorry I never asked for that recipe since, in those years, non-dairy substitutes weren’t that common and you’d never have known the parfait was parve. Still, it wasn’t Passover if one of the kids didn’t accidentally break one of the parfait glasses. It happened every single year and we must have gone through an entire set.
Aunt Frances passed away at least a dozen years ago, a few years before my daughter was born. I still use some of Frances’ recipes every year at my Seder and my daughter knows that one day she will be gifted with the responsibility of making Aunt Frances’ never-fail matzah balls for her family, too.
Favorite Pesach memory has nothin to do with food. My favorite memory is opening the door for Elijah. I was always the one who got to do that.