Cream cheese and Olive sandwiches (wine, ingredients, restaurant, healthy)

[burdell]

Originally Posted by vrexy

I have never heard of anyone describing cream cheese as "tangy." Are you referring to a flavored type of cream cheese? I love cream cheese, but I consider it to be a rather mild and bland taste and not at all tangy.

Taste some cream cheese side by side with some mascarpone and you'll notice the cream cheese is definitely tangier.

[Miss Hepburn]

Originally Posted by arwenmark

yup chopped green olives. Very tasty.
Any Rhode Islanders here that can give me RI insite?

Not exactly, I spent every summer on the beach in RI , Masquamacut area...I would say it is a
New England thing, personally.

[DawnMTL]

Originally Posted by burdell

I make a tapenade with those 3 and the oil cured black ones, probably be good on a cream sandwich.

Oil-cured black olives are my crack. I could eat them all day long. Alas, I have none left and tomorrow (I forgot about it today) I will make my first-ever cream cheese and olive sandwich. I will use the green manzanillo ones that I have in the fridge and, as I said yesterday:

Originally Posted by DawnMTL

My first thought was that it sounds positively vile... but I love cream cheese... and I love olives... and I will make this sandwich tomorrow... and I will love it... and it will be my new addiction... so, thank you!

I'm super-excited!!! And I won't forget tomorrow.

[burdell]

Originally Posted by DawnMTL

Oil-cured black olives are my crack. I could eat them all day long. Alas, I have none left and tomorrow (I forgot about it today) I will make my first-ever cream cheese and olive sandwich. I will use the green manzanillo ones that I have in the fridge and, as I said yesterday:



I'm super-excited!!! And I won't forget tomorrow.

Definitely tasty little buggers and I consider them essential to a tapenade. Tapenade adds lots of taste to a sandwich. One of my favorites is mesquite smoked turkey, Muenster cheese, roasted red peppers, and tapenade on sourdough bread with Difon mustard, then grilled. Guess I know what I'm buying at the market tomorrow.

[ralphfr]

Originally Posted by DawnMTL

I agree... AGAIN.

[sheena12]

Originally Posted by arwenmark

As a little girl my mom who was from RI used to make me cream cheese and olive sandwiches, I loved them. Years later I went to a ice cream and sandwich place called Newport Creamery also RI based. So I am wondering is the cream cheese and olive a RI thing? It is the only place I have ever seen it sold.

When I took my lunch to school, a frequent favorite was cream cheese and olives on Pepperidge Farm County white. It was one of my favorites.

It was always green olives with pimentos. Beat PB and J in my book.

[ralphfr]

Now I want cream cheese and olives on bakery pumpernickel!!! May have to hit up a bagel shop for breakfast and order a pumpernickel bagel as a quick fix!

[settled00]

wonder bread with a thin coating of mayo on one slice dotted with pimento stuffed olives is great for a hangover.

[settled00]

I read about the pimento cheese and recall my grandmother enjoyed that. I looked for it primarily to see what it tasted like. Can you believe they have it at Whole Foods? It was even more piquant than cream cheese. Still good, you just can't eat too much of it. It was good but being so rich, one cannot eat too much more than a few tastes spread upon a cracker.

[gouligann]

MMMM, that sounds delish!

I think next time I make my Black and Green Olive Tapenade (if anyone wants the recipe?)which is SO good, I'll try a sandwich with it and cream cheese.