I'm a new-ish home cook (started about 9 months ago), and I'm getting much better. I'm starting to throw things together that I feel will taste good. This generally goes well, except for today. The idea was to make a mushroom, onion, spinach, and baked potato mash bound together with cream cheese.
Well, with 2 reasonable sized potatoes, I used an entire block (1/2 lb) of cream cheese. The result was...un-cheerful. My father advised my to use only about a tablespoon of cream cheese.
My goal with the dish was to bring out the flavour of the cheese as a subtle undertone, and to really taste the onion/potato/mushroom thing. I don't think 1 tablespoon of cheese would have been enough.
So the questions are:
how much cheese would have been OK?
Should I have done away with the spinach, which was just boiled in a bit of water with some onion?
I'm also really not into using measurements while I cook. I don't like using x amount of anything. But I feel that this is one of those times where a bit of measurement would go a long way
Mike
Well, with 2 reasonable sized potatoes, I used an entire block (1/2 lb) of cream cheese. The result was...un-cheerful. My father advised my to use only about a tablespoon of cream cheese.
My goal with the dish was to bring out the flavour of the cheese as a subtle undertone, and to really taste the onion/potato/mushroom thing. I don't think 1 tablespoon of cheese would have been enough.
So the questions are:
how much cheese would have been OK?
Should I have done away with the spinach, which was just boiled in a bit of water with some onion?
I'm also really not into using measurements while I cook. I don't like using x amount of anything. But I feel that this is one of those times where a bit of measurement would go a long way
Mike