There's nothing like a toasted bagel for breakfast, but what are you going to do if you don't have any cream cheese to go with it? Thankfully, Dave Chang hit Instagram with a solution: Make it yourself.
It's a lot more simple than you think: Adding something acidic to milk and heating it up will help to separate curds—and that's the base of cream cheese. Put the curds in a cloth to strain, washing it off with cold water and (Chang takes a moment to recommend letting his washed curbs hang overnight) blitzing it in a blender before whipping it over ice water.
Chang notes that there are a couple exra steps and ingredients you could finesse into the process, but hey, when you're craving cream cheese, this ought to work well enough.
The only information we don't get after that? How it tasted—but we're sure it's safe to say it works in a pinch. It definitely beats needing to remember to buy cream cheese in the first place.
A lot of chefs around the world have been stepping up to the plate in the wake of locking down for the past seven weeks and counting. From Massimo Bottura blowing us all away with the one-two combo of his inimitable personality and online cooking classes to a bonafide Italian nonna teaching us how to make pasta at home, feeds are flooding with a lot of good ideas to try at home.
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