Creme Fraiche Glut

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Bought 2 massive pots of creme fraiche for my BIL's party and forgot to take them- any ideas what I can do with them please?

It's very nice mixed with grated cheese then used as a cheese sauce for anything - e.g. I have used that to make cauliflower cheese or a roasted veg lasagne instead of the traditional white cheese sauce. The cheese melts while its cooking.

add pesto to make a pasta sauce. you can put all sorts in that - diced chicken/ turkey, brocoli, mushrooms, maybe a crumbled up veg stock cube. or make same sauce and have with potatoes rather than pasta?

Make ice-cream - churn then ripple with sweetened fruit puree (eg raspberries),

or rum'n'raisin?

It also lasts for ages after its use by date, particularly if the seal isn't broken. The friendly cultures help to stop bad bacteria from taking over, I think. I've used it a couple of months past its due date and it's been perfectly fine.

I second crumbles idea

can you freeze it

someone I haven't seen in a while used to rave about Nigellas Blonde Chocolate Layer Cake from Forever Summer - I was looking it up, and it uses 300 ml creme fraiche in the icing - I may make it at the weekend for a birthday cake for dh - but here it is if you want to have a look.

If you like smoked fish pate, Jamie has a lovely recipe for smoked mackerel pate with cf, lemon zest, horseradish and parsley. Tis delish. I expect you could use smoked salmon instead.

You can make cheesecakes with it too. I think there are some recipes with a mix of cf and mascarpone.

Got a white choc and lemon cheesecake recipe somewhere.

Off the top of my head you need hob nobs, white choc (specifically G&B!), butter, creme fraiche, fromage frais and zest of 1 lemon.

Can't remember the amounts but will look it up if you want

Tis yum.

Thanks all, some great ideas

V tempted by Jamie's pate- mumofmonsters wd you mind looking up the amounts for me? Thank you! I will give you my top secret brownie recipe in exchange

chop up into halves a bag of washed small (new) potatoes and then mix a tub of creme fraiche with a crushed garlic clove or two, salt and pepper(add some finely chopped bacon or lardons if you like) and mix all together.
tip onto a baking tray and put in a hot oven 180 degress for about 40 mins

give the pots a turn about half way through

yum, yum, yum,

delicious with chicken.