PHILADELPHIA CHEESE - "Buy no more..."

[farfallina]

I will let you know when i try!

[riv_mum]

Just wondering if anyone had tried this recipe with ricotta?
Could someone also please post a simple recipe for making quark in a separate post please. I noticed a few of you had found recipes. Have you actually tried them?
I would prefer to use a tried and tested recipe if possible rather than make the whole thing and end up wasting it.

[farfallina]

I will try with ricotta soon
I've encountered with another problem though
I couldn't find sour cream. It's not very common around here
But I guess I found a recipe to make sour cream by usinb fresh cream, yogurt and lemon
I won't give up 

[farfallina]

It's really been a quite an adventure for me but I made it! Or I made something else!

Well let's see

I couldn't find quark cheese so I used ricotta
I couldn't find sour cream so I found a recipe to make it on my own. (Basically you mix 200g fresh cream with 50g yogurt. Let it rest for 1 day at room temperature and few hours in the fridge)

Now I have around 950g cream cheese
It doesn't taste exactly like philly- Maybe cos I didn't use original ingredients
But it tastes great anyway

My next experiment will be to use it to make cheesecake
We'll see how it will turn out

[farfallina]

Today I fınally tried my cream cheese to make cheesecake.
Apparently it wasn't such a brilliant idea to use it because the butter melts down a lot and there is quite a lot butter. So my cheesecake turned out to be very liquid.
I let it cool down in the oven, and after that surely the butter got hardened and it wasn't liquid anymore. (I poured away some melted butter by the way)
In fact the taste of my cheesecake was wonderful!! Everyone loved it!
Nevertheless, I don't recommend to use this cheese because it would be extremely fattening!!

It's better to use this cream cheese plain I guess.

[Thermomixer]

Sorry to hear -thanks for trying it though 

[JulieO]

I finally saw quark cheese in my local Woolies yesterday, I've always had a look but never seen it until yesterday.  Was reduced down to $2.86 for a 450g tub so I grabbed 2 tubs even though I wasn't sure how much I needed or what other ingredients were needed to make this recipe  .  Just need to pick up some sour cream or creme fraiche and then I will  give it a go. 

Haven't anything in mind to use it for though, I suppose I can always freeze it until I do.   

[JulieO]

Here is the cream cheese this morning after setting over night in the fridge.  Really tastes like the real stuff only nicer.  Have used the bulk of it in a mango cheesecake which is setting over night in the fridge.  The filling tasted awesome so can't wait to taste the whole thing tomorrow.   

[isi]

Jupieeeee!
I am so happy you try this one Julie!
I have some cheesecake recipes made with philadelphia and I love them very much because the taste is very delight.
Thank you very much - it lookes great.
Did you try to mix some with garlic and herbs - its yummi too.

best Regards
isi

[JulieO]

No not as yet isi, but maybe with the next lot I make soon. 

[meganjane]

I'd forgotten all about this!
We made quark, or quarg, as it's correctly named at the workshop I did in Margaret River. I haven't had time to make any of the stuff we did there!

I think I'd just buy Cream Cheese as I don't normally use sour cream, preferring yoghurt, so seems silly to go and buy it to make cream cheese. I'd rather make Mascarpone and use that in a cheesecake, much easier!

[Cerise]

Thank you all for this post.  Cerise - New Member

[Alexis]

It's good to revisit old posts. I had never seen this one before. What a good idea. Now I just have to find some quark.

[Cerise]

I found Quark cheese online.  I have not checked out local supermarket so maybe they're there already:

http://www.barambahorganics.com.au/organic-cheese/

http://www.barambahorganics.com.au/where-to-buy.aspx

[Frozzie]

Most supermarkes have it in oz.. Well ive seen it a number of times.. Im in qld..