What do you do with cottage cheese?

Bin it

Curds and whey

I think it’s good in some pasta dishes in lieu of ricotta.

I eat it with scrambled eggs sometimes.

I was watching a Daisy cottage cheese commercial, and this one guy was using it as a dip for chips.

Rofl. A DIP for CHIPS.

Are you serious????

It seems like the only thing you can do to cottage cheese to improve the taste, is add fruit.

I like it with pineapple sometimes

It looks disgusting. I don't think I've ever tasted it in my life and I'm never going to. I'm far from a picky eater.

Paneer Curry, maybe?

Substitute paneer with Cottage Cheese.

Can any Indian people weigh in on this?

It looks like white diarrhea.

A little dab will do ya.

I agree, R9, and yogurt taste like vomit to me.

I love cottage cheese on wheat thins.

I like it in lasagne. Medium to large-curd.

Pretty bland, but a good source of protein. I put Fritos in it to add some flavor and texture. The genesis of many Rhoda Morgenstern punchlines.

Scrambled eggs and cottage cheese?

Fritos and cottage cheese?

BLARF!

Are you people on crack?

I can just imagine the bland chewiness of eating scrambled eggs and cottage cheese. They both have the same texture.

I had some this afternoon with fresh pineapple. Delicious. It's high in protein too. I get the small curd, 2% milk fat. Richard Nixon had it every d ay for lunch. He had his with sliced tomatoes salt and pepper.

One of my favorite snacks from a very young (and I'm over 50 now) -- toast (white or wheat), cottage cheese (full fat, preferably large curd), and a lot of fresh cracked pepper. Try it.

Scrambled eggs w/cottage cheese sounds good, IMO. I'd put some salsa on it.

I apply it as makeup!!

I like to put cinnamon and very finely chopped sweet apple in it. I like its taste very much actually.

I had a container tonight for dinner of 1 percent milkfat. But I made a big mistake. I didn't notice it but it was unsalted.

I don't recommend it. But I wasn't going to throw it out.

Just put some salt on it.

Your dinner was a bowl of cottage cheese?

Poor r13's lasagne.

Cottage cheese is much lower in fat than regular cheese and relatively high protein, making it an excellent choice if you're on a diet.

I love cottage cheese. I eat it with Melba Toast and pretend it’s 1964.

About seven years ago, I started the most boring diet. A hard boiled egg for breakfast, a pint of large curd, full-fat cottage cheese and a tin of albacore tuna in water for lunch, and a handful of almonds or cashews for dinner. After four months of this I lost 43 lbs. I couldn't eat cottage cheese or tuna for a long time after, but it's a high protein, relatively low fat, and very low carb diet that, if you stick to it, will cause dramatic weight loss.

The key to enjoying cottage cheese is letting it warm a bit before eating it. Very cold, cottage cheese has little flavor. If it's slightly less cold, there's an acidity that is pleasant (to me).

You can make ice cream with cottage cheese. It was going around Tik Tok and there are videos on YouTube.

I like it plain but full fat. The low-fat variety is like spackle. I think it makes a good work lunch -- not offensively smelly and not bloat inducing, just enough to stave off the hunger pains.

[quote] Scrambled eggs and cottage cheese? Fritos and cottage cheese? BLARF! Are you people on crack?

No, we’re on meth, and that’s why it tastes so good. Plus we have hardly any teeth left. So there’s that too.

[quote] A hard boiled egg for breakfast, a pint of large curd, full-fat cottage cheese and a tin of albacore tuna in water for lunch, and a handful of almonds or cashews for dinner.

You didn’t eat fruit or vegetables for 4 months?

This is a delicious light dessert featuring cottage cheese.

Spread on toasted Ezekiel bread topped with pepper jelly.

I eat it plain—always loved it. Sometimes with black pepper. I've also seen people eat it with fruit but the idea has never really appealed to me.

I like it with chives mixed into it. Well, maybe like is too strong a word. But I find it edible, I need to eat more protein, and it’s cheaper than yogurt.

I eat it with black pepper and tomatos

R15, I've tried cottage cheese in scrambled eggs and it's quite nice as long as you don't add too much. It's good if you want a more filling meal but don't necessarily want to add more eggs.

Some people do use it in lasagna in place of ricotta, or some of the ricotta, to reduce fat and calories. But if you're that concerned about fat and calories, you should probably just skip the lasagna altogether.

R27 Why do people on these crazy diets have to eat the same thing every day? I'm honestly curious. Did you think eating a little broccoli or spinach, or lettuce, or an apple was going to make you fat?

R27 thanks for this - I like diets that are super simple and require little cooking. May I ask how much you weighed before you started, and how long it took to get used to only 1 egg in the morning without feeling very hungry - lunch seems pretty filling.

High in protein for GAINS!

I use it as a lubricant for masturbation.

What wine would pair well with cottage cheese?

r27 that is a seriously unhealthy diet. Of course you lost weight. You were starving yourself.

I love it with pepper and a dash of hot sauce.

I actually love large curd cottage cheese with cracked black pepper. It's kind of a treat, actually.

I've also put it in oatmeal as a very high protein, filling breakfast often in my life when I was trying to lose some weight and eat healthier.

When i was younger and had much less money, I would use it in lasagna when I made it. I thought it was okay, but ricotta is fucking delicious so I've made lasagna without ricotta in years.

[quote]ricotta is fucking delicious so I've made lasagna without ricotta in years.

Trying to find the logic behind this, r46.

It was one my favorite after school snacks. Usually with pineapple or tomato sprinkled with pepper..

I liked it better when it came with chives in it but that seems to not exist anymore. I’m not interested enough to buy chives separately and mix it in.

^i've made lasagna WITH ricotta for years and ditched the cottage cheese.

r47 I'm multi-tasking. I'm a bit scatterbrained, i brought my new puppy home today.

It’s not bad mixed with flavored yogurt to get extra protein.

I really like cottage cheese but it has to be Cabot brand. it has less whey and is creamier.

When in Berlin, I loved cottage cheese's German cousin, quark. It's tangy and delicious on bagels, dark breads, etc.

For years and years my go to diet meal was a small Hamburger Patty with onions (tiny bit of ketchup) and cottage cheese on a few pieces of lettuce and a Tab. Later Diet Coke. ……. In Doris Day’s book - the back about her exercise and makeup - it’s campy: Her favorite lunch was Rye bread topped with Cottage Cheese covered with rings of raw onion. I don’t know why I have always remembered that. I have never tried it, though.

In the 90s / early 2000s the diner I usually had dinner in (the Chelsea Square on 23 / 9th) still had those 60s “slimline” diet plated on the menu and I’d often order them either a burger patty (no bun) or some scrambled eggs accompanied with a scoop of cottage cheese, a scallion, some radishes and tomato slices a hunk of iceberg lettuce and a few packages of Melba Toast. It was a satisfying meal.

R55 That sounds good to me!

[quote] I use it as a lubricant for masturbation.

[quote] —My penis smells amazing

Your dick always smelled like cheese, so the difference was negligible.

It's quite wonderful on a baked potato.

So is sour cream.

Exactly, R59.

Most dairy products seem to serve a specific purpose, and pair well with other foods.

Cottage cheese, on the other hand, seems to serve NO purpose and doesn't really pair well with other foods.

So why was it invented?

R60, cottage cheese is close to fresh mozzarella or burrata, IMO.

I put graxy on it

Are you Canadian R62, and are you talking about Poutine?

You actually put curds on poutine, and not cottage cheese.

In England, cottage cheese is dry, salty, and less creamy. Nasty stuff.

[quote]Your dick always smelled like cheese, so the difference was negligible.

[quote]—Your soon to be EX-boyfriend

Actually because you’re my boyfriend, my dick always smells like shit.

I just eat it OP as I've learned early on that it won't help remove leg hair.

[quote]I really like cottage cheese

You wouldn't like it on your thighs.

I cut up an avocado and lightly salt and pepper it. Then I put the cottage cheese in the middle of the bowl, and sprinkle a little tobacco. It's good.

I've made lasagne with ricotta and with small curd cottage cheese, and the difference is negligible. In both versions, you chiffonade some parsley and maybe a little fresh basil or spinach, mix that into the moist cheese, stir in a raw egg and use all of that as one of the layers (usually meat sauce, moist cheese layer, mozzarella layer), then start over, finishing with a layer of parmesan on the top. With the intense flavors of the other layers, the difference of taste and texture between cottage cheese and ricotta is nearly completely masked. Cottage cheese is lower in fat, so a ricotta lasagne will have a richer, creamier texture and taste but will add a lot more calories.

I ate it yesterday, put it in a salad crumbled , it gave it texture and picks up a lot of the other flavors.

CC cake.

I was told you can put it in your underwear to make it appear like vaginal discharge. Get creative!

Like R54, I stored the memory of Christopher Isherwood subsisting on cottage cheese and tomato when he moved to NYC and found himself to be too fat for gay living.

You're so MEAN, R67.

And R26, wouldn't you rather have a TAB instead of a Fresca?

R74 - Growing up my mom didn’t buy diet soda but you occasionally end up at someone’s home and that was all they had. As a kid Fresca seemed more exotic, and the flavor hid the taste of saccharine better than TAB.

^^R26. I’m so high on artificial grapefruit flavor and carcinogens I don’t know who I am!

R72 = Cheryl

pepper does do something to it to make it much better.

I mix it with applesauce, cinnamon and granola.

You can put hot sauce on it

[quote] I mix it with applesauce, cinnamon and granola.

[quote] You can put hot sauce on it

That's like putting lipstick on a pig.

smoothies, scrambled eggs

Anyone who replaces ricotta cheese in lasagna with cottage cheese is truly non-Italian and doesn't appreciate Italian food.

Though I mostly mix it with chives, occasionally I mix it with mild chunky salsa.

I prefer 4% small curd cottage cheese but 2% will do. But it has to be Breakstone.

Witty women could have such fun by inserting some cottage cheese up their coozes and then going to their OB/GYN complaining of “female problems.”

I like it plain but also on salad

I use it in place of cream for my tea and coffee.

I love Tab and Fresca so much!

I usually eat it with canned fruit -- pears, peaches, pineapple, whole fruit cranberry.

[quote] I like it with chives mixed into it. Well, maybe like is too strong a word. But I find it edible, I need to eat more protein, and it’s cheaper than yogurt.

Yes, finely chopped chives and halved cherry tomatoes and just a touch of french dressing in top. Mmm, a yummy mid afternoon snack.

I like it as more of a savory snack, with hot sauce chopped pecans and stuff like that, on crackers. An easy, high protein snack.

Now I’m craving it

I've always liked it. I buy Breakstone's 2% small curd cottage cheese. I like to blend in some chipped chives, and spoon it on popcorn cakes.

Elsie the Cow always served HUGE portions of it.

CC donuts

R90 — I just use freeze dried chives, not fresh. They’re fine.

R68 Tobacco, or tabasco?

I like it, but I can't eat it. Stuff with whey (like whey protein powder) usually makes me feel lousy.

One of my favorite things during the hottest part of the summer is to eat CC with sliced, cold green grapes. Refreshing, with a little protein. I know CC disgusts a lot of people . . .

That sounds good, R99.

Another thing I like to eat with CC is chopped up, roasted green peppers (I just buy them already diced at the store and bake them with a little butter until they're done enough). This may sound strange but I like it.

Pepper, black Pepper

CC ice cream

What do you do with a general, when he's no longer a general?

Bethenny Frankel insists that cottage cheese makes a great dip if mixed with Ranch dressing mix. I told my partner about it and he tried it. The taste was okay, but the texture was all wrong. I guess it's something one could get used to if determined to lose weight.

R103. Haha! (I think it's "...when he stops being a general" though.)