Hey guys, you know what is awesome? COTTAGE CHEESE IS FUCKING AWESOME!

if you disagree maybe you should find a different thread to be wrong in

this cant actually be a healthy option right? i am assuming that is a dairy industry propaganda deal.

too tasty

I agree with the premise of this thread. Throw some canned peaches in there and you reach chow hall heaven.

yep!

it is like a magical food

small curd? large curd? 2% or 4%?

My curd preference depends on the season. In the winter, I prefer a larger, hardier curd. During the summer months, I enjoy a refreshing small curd cottage cheese.

Sometimes I go reeely krazeee and get the whole-fat cottage cheese. But I make sure to wear my hair socks the next week.

"Cottage cheese, cottage cheese, the only cheese guaranteed to please"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMaEUv5n9wU

love the cottage cheese. small curd more than large curd, but i'm not that fussy. don't like it with fruit, tho. i don't understand why it's packaged and sold that way.

love it with a good thick spicy soup or chili. you can just pour the soup over a dollop of cottage cheese, the c.c. cuts the spice heat and adds some creaminess.

I love cottage cheese & eat it all the time, but when I was a teenager I got yelled at by an old man for trespassing on his lawn. He'd just eaten cottage cheese and the singular way it coated his mouth with a milky film and free-floating white chunks will probably never leave my mind.

I pretty much only like it just by itself. I especially don't care for it in lasagna, where it tends to make everything too watery.

I LOVE COTTAGE CHEESE WOWZAWOWAAAAAAA

My husband loves cottage cheese.

husband otm

Odd, because it's the stereotypical women's diet food.

sounds like he is a keeper tbh

i have no cottage cheese in the house and in this way i am wasting my life

MARRY THAT MAN CHRISTINE

Uh...we've been married for 18 years this coming October.

renew ur vows

i just took a few forkfuls of cottage cheese and then walked over to the computer and opened ilx

i prefer lowfat/fat-free most of the time, tends to just taste better. y/n?

I pretty much only like it just by itself. I especially don't care for it in lasagna, where it tends to make everything too watery.

only disgusting savages put cottage cheese in lasagna. i saw paula deen do this once on jay leno's show and he was like "i'm italian; this hurts me in my heart."

her response was that you can't get ricotta in the south. smh.

cottage cheese pancakes are incredibly classic

yeah tbh cottage cheese should not be sullied by other food, best eaten directly from the tub via comically oversized spoon

xposts

Wait, cottage cheese in lasagna? I've only seen ricotta in lasagna & that made me cry... Cottage cheese would take that rong to a new level

it is a delicious type of cheese

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/largecheese.jpg

ricotta is AMAZING in lasagna, it just has to be good ricotta (calabro whole milk <3)

even pix make me salivate, and i just ate some cottage cheese!

looks like spackle tho

even pix make me salivate, and i just ate some cottage cheese!

― the 'special' one (con suelo), Thursday, September 23, 2010 10:36 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

con queso imo

her response was that you can't get ricotta in the south. smh.

Bull. You can get it at Wal-Mart, for heaven's sake.

yeah. i've lived in the south. they seem to have most things.

http://dogfoodcoach.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/cottagecheese.jpg

how is cottage cheese a diet food, but cheese curds are uh… not

http://swellfood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/SwellfoodCheeseCurds.jpg

omg

Cottage cheese can be eaten by itself, with fruit and sugar, with salt and pepper, with fruit puree, on toast, with tomatoes, with granola and cinnamon, as a chip dip, as a replacement for mayonnaise in tuna or chicken salad, in salads, or used as an ingredient in recipes such as jello salad and various desserts. Cottage cheese with fruit such as pears or peaches is a standard side dish in many "home cooking" or meat-and-three restaurants' menus in the United States.

like… tuna sandwich tuna salad?

i can't even comprehend

It must be pointed out that loving cottage cheese can totally depend on where you live. In NZ, cottage cheese was one of my favourite foods ever. So satisfyingly dense, so salty and creamy. Mm. Now I live in Canada, and it is inedible here. Even the full-fat variety is total bullshit. Just soupy and tasteless and disgusting.

Dairy products in general are shit here, really. Quite amazing what a different it makes when you actually allow cows out to pasture.

Cottage cheese, I miss you. You are one of the first things I get at the shops when I go home to visit.

Whats the diff between cottage cheese and ricotta? I've ever worked that out.

mmmm cottage cheese

my cat stalks me whenever I have dairy products, but he especially goes nuts for cottage cheese. was sure the little dude was going to try to shove his head in my mouth, he was smelling my breath so intently

It feels like cottage cheese is in decline. Like, it's heyday has come and gone.

I thought it had a bit of a hipster resurgence a couple years ago. At any rate it's delicious

Cottage cheese pancakes:

1 cup cottage cheese
3 eggs
2 tbsp melted butter
1/4 cup whole wheat flour

The pancakes have to be little, like 2 inches across or so. The griddle has to be very hot or they will stick (but this is true of all pancakes.) They are delicious.

All the tupperware at my mom's house is this:

https://www.meijer.com/content/dam/meijer/product/0094/77/6124/36/0094776124367_a1c1_0600.png

the cottage cheese pancake recipe sounds odd but interesting and much healthier than regular pancakes

everyone is suspicious of them until they try them, and then they are blown away by how good they are

I will try them

Love me some cc but yeah haven’t had it in years
Those pancakes sound interesting

Apparently it's pretty difficult to make cottage cheese.

my favorite cottage cheese topping is toasted sesame seeds. delicious combination.

Cottage cheese butt is a thing

whole milk or low fat?

I know because I saw it

It feels like cottage cheese is in decline. Like, it's heyday has come and gone.

― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 8 March 2021 23:53 (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Was listening to some marketing person from one of the big supermarket chains saying UK cottage cheese producers have more than doubled their sales in the last year. Apparently it's versatility + lots of wellness influencers on tiktok, plus a general trend towards healthy and cheap protein have boosted sales bigtime recently.

I was only saying the same the other day. One brand has now been relabelled as ‘PROTEIN PACK’ in a smaller size at a higher price in Sainsbury’s and it’s regularly sold out. I suspect they may take a little longer to rediscover Glenryck’s pilchards.

apparently, one of the protein loving tiktoks was doing a how to make chips out of cottage cheese bit

I picked up a 300g tub for 30p at Morrisons tonight. Not sure what I’ll use it for but couldn’t resist at that price.

this thread reboot persuaded me to buy a small tub again

one thing to note (at least here): the tub & lid are #5 plastic, which as far as I know NOBODY recycles (maybe it's different in the EU).. so landfill bound, unless I wanna store paint in it or something

i love cottage cheese

I can eat like a few spoonfuls of it, and enjoy it, but not much more

fav applications:

on triscuit
in midwest-style lasagna instead of ricotta
solo with salt n p

I can eat a half a small tub ina sitting easily and this disgusts everyone close to me for some reason. Looking forward to trying on a triscuit in an attempt to normalize how I consume the stuff

i once worked at a "health spa" and one of the dishes we made was a mac & cheese with cottage cheese and it was really good.

that really sucks about the #5 though, obvs

maybe it's time they offered CC on a cone

not cream cheese, I mean cottage obv

I stand slightly corrected:

the safest rule to stick to is recycling only number 1 and 2 plastics. But you should also check with your local recycling program to see which types of plastics it accepts, as some facilities recycle, for example, polypropylene (number 5), the plastic commonly used in yogurt containers.

Growing up (Midwest, 1960s-ish), "diet plates" were a hamburger patty and a scoop of cottage cheese on a ring of canned pineapple. My grandma also made a "salad" that was lime jello with canned pineapple and cottage cheese embedded. We'd also have lunch that was cottage cheese with canned peaches as a fancy treat.

For these nostalgic reasons, I love cottage cheese with fruit. My ex would stir grape jelly into his, which was a nope for me.

Wow. I listened to a judge John Hodgman podcast where they talked about weird Midwest salads - and that would fit right in.

scoop of cottage cheese on a ring of canned pineapple

I remember the 'diet plate' patty meal, sometimes the cottage cheese came on a canned pear half on a lettuce leaf

I actually ordered one not that long ago when I was super hung over

My ex would stir grape jelly into his

I use Ikea lingonberry preserves

I have it all the time with a diced tomato, salt and pepper

Love it on toast BUT it needs salt (and pepper imo but AT LEAST salt), and it’s really hard to find without guar gum additive. The only kind I can find in NY is the brand GOOD which is fine. But the real queen is Michigan Cottage Cheese. Yes that’s the brand name. Yes the label is a type abomination. But the cottage cheese is superlative. (This is the major leftover container in my mom’s fridge btw.)

I find CC very salty, amazed you add it!

Are we large curd or small curd? Creamed or not?

(large curd, creamed ftw)

creamed? what?! continuing with mind blown, i don't think i've ever see large curd? i don't even know cottage cheese?

i have blended CC for a pasta sauce before, so am not completely lost

teeny tiny smol curds

LOL creamed means it has some heavy cream added. Without cream it's more like ricotta, just the dry curds.

My wife made cottage cheese ice cream once, it was very good.

cottage cheese with pineapple chunks <3

yeah cottage cheese is so versatile and very moreish for something that is actually quite healthy. When I say versatile I haven't done much else with it other than toast, pizza toppings, sandwiches, jacket spuds.

Longley Farm is my brand because it was since I was a kid and from a local dairy farm, although it's probably owned by Kraft these days.

Still independent according to their website. Very tempted to see if I can get a mandarin yogurt as it’s a nice balance between sweet and tart.