I like cheese.
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Originally posted by: Tiles2Tech
I like to heat my cheese in the oven - North Philly style.
umm.. me too. hot cheese on wonder bread bread is so good.
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the cottage cheese page
an homage to and cheerful rip-off of the great Tuna Page by Deepsquatter
"We didn?t get our forty acres and a mule, but we did get you, C.C." ?George Clinton
Cottage cheese nutrient analysis per 120 g serving (1% fat version):
Energy: 99 cal
Protein: 16 g
Fat: 1.2 g
Carbohydrate: 6.0 g
Many weightlifters badmouth cottage cheese, whining that it tastes bad and can't be used in any recipes (I henceforth declare them crybabies, by the way). To overlook cottage cheese is to do without a great source of lean protein and a versatile food.
Thus, I have made it my mission to convert the heathen.
High in protein, low in fat, easily available even in the crummiest dive of a convenience store, and great as a substitute for higher-fat cheeses or in its own right, cottage cheese is truly the food of the gods. Try a few of these (and send me any that you might have) and see if you can't bring CC into your life too.
A disclaimer: I'm a seat-of-the-pants cook and my quantities are often instinctive. The amounts I have given are just suggestions, since I rarely measure things when I cook. Since I'm assuming we lifters all have our own weird diets, most of these are for one person. Adjust amounts accordingly for more.
cottage cheese potato topper
1/2 cup cottage cheese
Fresh herbs, chopped (suggestion: oregano, basil, chives)
Salt to taste
Splash of lemon juice (optional)
Combine above ingredients in blender. Serve over hot baked potatoes.
bean and avocado salad
1 part chopped cooked green beans
1 part cooked kidney beans
1 part chopped avocado
1 part cottage cheese
Splash of lemon juice
Pinch of salt
Mix all ingredients together and serve cold.
tuna pasta
1/2 cup tuna and cottage cheese mix
1 cup chopped tomatoes
1 tbsp olive oil
Mix and heat for a few minutes over medium heat, stirring often, till flavours combine. Toss with pasta and top with grated Parmigiana. For a variation, try adding salsa.
cottage cheese pasta
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1 cup chopped tomatoes
Plenty of chopped fresh basil
1/2 clove chopped garlic
1 tbsp olive oil
Mix and heat for a few minutes over medium heat till flavours combine, cheese melts a bit, and garlic becomes fragrant. Toss with pasta and top with grated Parmigiana.
super easy breakfast
I have this for breakfast almost every morning. Mix 1 part cottage cheese with 1 part flavoured yogurt of your choice. Looks kind of gross but tastes great. Top with fruit if desired. This is a good starter dish for anyone who doesn't really like cottage cheese.
protein blintz
2 eggs
1/3 cup dry curd cottage cheese
frozen blueberries, defrosted to room temperature (you can use whatever fruit you like here, but I use frozen blueberries since they keep well for long periods when fresh berries aren't in season, and they're not packed in syrup)
Beat eggs and pour into small nonstick frying pan heated over medium heat, as if for an omelet. When the edges begin to firm up, push them towards the centre so that the runny stuff in the middle puddles out and cooks. After doing this once or twice, spoon cottage cheese and blueberries on top. Allow the eggs to set fully. The bottom of the omelet should be golden brown (turn it up with a spatula to check). You can either roll up the omelet into a cylinder like a blintz, or simply slide it off the pan and fold it in half like an omelet. If this isn't sweet enough, try beating a little bit of sugar or sweetener into the eggs beforehand. I don't like it too sweet.
cottage cheese fruit dip
1 cup cottage cheese
2 tablespoons sugar (more or less depending on taste)
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Combine above ingredients in blender. Serve with fruit. For the Ukrainians in the crowd, this is also nice drizzled over poppyseed cake. Or, you can simply mix cottage cheese with cut-up fruit for a nice fruit salad.
tuna and cottage cheese mix
1 part canned tuna
1 part cottage cheese
This mixture is incredibly versatile. Eat it on its own or use it in a sandwich.
tuna melts
Prepare tuna and cottage cheese mix. Spread over pieces of bread (nice multigrain buns cut in half work well for this). Top with sprinkling of grated cheddar cheese (old cheddar gives you the most flavour bang for your buck, and ensures you don't need a lot). Microwave for a minute or so, or grill under broiler (watch it?these burn fast!), till cheese on top is melted.
lasagne
Use cottage cheese in place of ricotta in your favourite lasagne recipe to reduce the overall calories and saturated fat. Regular cottage cheese works better than lowfat cheese here.
tuna and cottage cheese salad
Prepare tuna and cottage cheese mix. Toss with vinaigrette, chopped tomatoes, mixed leafy greens, and whatever other fresh chopped veggies you feel like throwing in. You can even toss in some chopped cooked egg whites if you like. Tastes pretty good on its own or topped with grated Parmigiana (you guessed it, I put the stuff on everything!). As a variation, toss cottage cheese alone with some fresh chopped spinach and shredded red cabbage in a creamy dressing.
Vinaigrette:
(since vinaigrette recipes are as individual as chili recipes, this is merely a suggestion for those of you so culinarily impaired that the thought of prepping your own vinaigrette paralyzes you completely)
1/2 cup olive oil or 1/4 cup olive and 1/4 cup flax seed oil
1/4 cup red cooking wine
1/4 cup lemon juice
1/2 to 1 tsp Dijon mustard (depending on how zesty you like your vinaigrettes?I like them to burn my sinuses)
Pinch of salt and pepper
Pinch of dried basil, oregano, parsley, and/or garlic
Combine all ingredients in a sealed container and shake to blend. You can adjust proportions to taste and add natural yogurt (or even blenderized cottage cheese!) for a creamier texture.
cottage cheese pancakes
This one is really delicious, especially with the addition of the recommended ingredients.
2-3 beaten eggs
1 cup cottage cheese
Honey or a couple of teaspoons of sugar, to taste (a banana will make it naturally sweeter)
1 cup uncooked oatmeal
Optional, highly recommended ingredients:
banana
a sprinkle of cinnamon
a splash of vanilla
Grab your handy blender and dump the ingredients in, in the order they appear (otherwise the mixture will get all chunky). So, eggs in first, then start the blender. As it's blending, pour in the cottage cheese, then the banana if you're using it, then whatever sweeteners and spices you like, then the oatmeal. Once this is nicely blended, cook as you would pancakes, in a nonstick pan over medium-low heat. I love these plain or with fruit, but you can put syrup on them too, just like regular pancakes.
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cottage cheese nachos
fat free cottage cheese
lean or extra lean ground beef)
some tomaotes/green peppers or salsa
some tostito low fat baked sour cream and cheese tortilla chips
Combine all ingredients and you have some healthy nachos! They are awesome, high in protein, low in carb and fat.... try to get as much as possible from the cottage cheese (cottage cheese is the sour cream substitute) and as little as possible from the chips... also, try cottage cheese mixed with microwaved garbanzos and add 1 packet of Equal.....
cottage cheese and "tasteless tuna"
Also, try this discovery: if you boil tuna for 2 minutes in water, it loses about 80-90% of that nasty tuna taste! Just don't eat it hot. Pour cool water over it and drain it so that it is cool and dry and it is almost tasteless! Mix it with cottage cheese and Equal and garbanzo beans and it is perfect!
?Jeff Ward
My favourite breakfast consists of cottage cheese and other stuff. It's taken from one of the Zone recipe books. Anyway here it is:
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1/4 cup plain yogurt
1 cup of frozen blueberries (big plump ones, not pale little ones)
1/3 cup of unsweetened applesauce
1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg or more to your liking
1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon, again to your liking
4 teaspoons of slivered or sliced almonds
1) put the cottage cheese and yogurt in a bowl
2) blend the blueberries (can be misc frozen fruit if market doesn't have any) with the applesauce
3) put the blueberry mix into the above bowl
4) put the nutmeg and cinnamon in the bowl
5) mix it all up
6) dust top with almonds
Delicious!
?Lyndsey Ferguson
I've just got one Cottage cheese recipe. I love it and eat it every day. Just take Cottage chesse and add 3 tsp of sugar and 2 tsp of cocoa for every cup. I think it's better than chocolate milk and doesn't have much more sugar.
?Chris Gold
I love cottage cheese too, and have been enjoying a crazy recipe which I saw on your page for some time now (Chris Gold's recipe, above). I can't believe someone else likes this! I call it "chocolate cheese" and it grosses everybody out! She suggests sugar, but I think it tastes great with 2 packets of equal. You can also add 1/2 tsp vanilla extract if you wanna make it extra yummy. It tastes like chocolate cheesecake!! Another thing I love, love, love is equal parts store bought salsa and cottage cheese as a dip for fat free tortilla chips. This is awesome! I call it "Salsa Con Cottage Queso" and I made it up while living in Texas, feeling sorry for myself while missing out on all that yummy tex-mex. I can eat it just plain with a spoon!!
I take thin sliced turkey (you know, lunch meat style) lay it out flat, put in some cottage cheese, and pickle, of course, roll it up, and eat. Quick, and lots of protein!
?Laurie Jones
I use cottage cheese as a really healthy filling for baked potatoes. Cook the potatoes as usual and then scoop out the flesh. Mix this approximately equal amount of with cottage cheese and season with salt and pepper. Fill the potatoes back up with the mixture and dollop a bit more cottage cheese on top! Healthy, yummy and filling.
?Caroline Middlebrook
My favorite is mixing 1/2 cup of cottage cheese with 1/2 cup of sugar free jello. It's yummy!
?Mary Wasielewski
I offer you a cottage cheese topping for a bagel, or perhaps a filling for a pita or celery stalks: Drop a portion of cottage cheese in some cheese cloth & squeeze, squeeze, squeeze out the liquid. Put it in a bowl with some garlicky Mrs. Dash or your favorite dry herbs/seasonings, and mush it with a fork. This spreads easily over a toasted bagel and won't make it soggy!
?Juliana Williamson-Page
I have never been a cottage cheese fan, however, a great invention that I discovered is mixing a bowl of cottage cheese with fresh fruit and a spoonful of cool whip light. This is a great late night snack that always satisfies my sweet tooth attacks. Try it out, I'm sure you will love it!!
?Sherrill Guinn
cheesecake
2 cups dry curd pressed cottage cheese (fat percentage optional)
3 eggs
1/2 cup yogurt (any percentage of fat)
1/3 cup honey
1 tsp. grated lemon peel
1-2 tsp. vanilla
Preheat oven to 350. Combine ingredients and process until satin smooth. Pour into loaf pan and bake 30 minutes or until edges are slightly browned. Cool and refrigerate for several hours. Top with fresh or cooked drained berries or fruit of choice. Serves 8. 148 calories per serving. 12.65 g of protein, 20.5 g of carbs, 2.5 g of fat. From "Breaking the Vicious Cycle" by Elaine Gottschall.
?Carol Frilegh
Scramble some eggs and just before you are ready to take them out of the pan, add some diced tomatoes and some cottage cheese just long enough to make them warm. The cheese should just start to melt a little but still look like pieces of cottage cheese. (Sounds gross but tastes good.)
?Nancy Hill
So glad to see more uses for my stand-by protein. Like many others I have a recipe that I too stumbled on. It is kind of like a Waldorf salad without the mayo (but you could add it if you wanted to).
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1/4 cup ultra low-fat Cool Whip or equivalent frozen edible oil type topping
1/2 apple cut up
1 tablespoon of Heath bar or Skor bar...caramel bits
slivered almonds or walnuts (optional)
Mix it all together and eat. Leave it overnight and the caramel will blend and it will taste even better. I can't believe that this is good for me. I feel like I cheat every time I eat it.
?Glenda
Hey Krista, I thought I'd let you in on my favorite cottage cheese snack. Take a piece of good, chewy, whole wheat/multigrain bread and toast it to your prefered shade. Layer on some cottage cheese, and then top with some well-drained crushed pineapple. Sprinkle a little ginger over the whole thing, and you've got a very satisfying treat. It's so incredibly good. I hope you like it as much as I like your site, which is lots and lots.
?Tara.
cottage cheese smoothie
Hello Krista, I absolutely love your website! I wanted to pass along this delicious cottage cheese smoothie recipe for your cottage cheese page. It's delicious and filling.....even my kids like it!
In a blender combine:
1/2 cup of cottage cheese (low or nonfat)
1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries
1 cup of milk (low or nonfat)
1 scoop of protein powder (optional)
1 packet of Splenda or sweetner of choice
For those that use flax oil, you can add a tablespoon to this and it doesn't really change the taste. Blend for 1 to minutes, serve and enjoy! Best Regards,
?Alexandra L
Krista, Thanks for your great site. My workout partner and I especially love the cottage cheese page... it is our ultimate food, since we are teachers and need quick, packable lunches. I like Indian food, so I made up a recipe that is sort of Indianish:
.5 cup cottage cheese (non or lowfat)
.5 cup frozen spinach (the kind that comes in a bag can be thrown in while it's still frozen)
.5 cup organic canned lentils
1 t. curry powder
garlic powder and pepper to taste
I throw everything into a tupperware container the night before and just zap it for a couple of minutes in the microwave at lunch and stir. The cheese gets melty and I think it's delicious. It's a good way to get more veggies, protein and fiber, too.
Thanks again,
Alicia Hamilton
christina's two second miracle
1. toast a sourdough or whole wheat English Muffin
2. scoop on 1% or fat free cottage cheese
3. add some hot salsa sauce on top of the cottage cheese...that's it!
Yum Yum Yum Yum
I hope you like it. You can use it on your page if you'd like.
Take care,
Christina
cottage cheese & tortilla stackup
1 lb container cottage cheese
4 oz can diced green chiles
1 egg, beaten (can use 2 if eggs are smallish)
1 dozen or so corn tortillas
grated jack/cheddar cheese
Mix together the cc, chiles and egg(s) in a bowl. Layer tortillas, then mix, then grated cheese in a baking dish and bake at 350F for 30-45 minutes. Serves 6 or so.
vegetarian enchiladas
corn tortillas (heated until pliable)
enchilada sauce (I use the canned variety, easy)
cottage cheese
rice (optional)
green onion
jack cheese
Mix together all ingredients except the tortillas and sauce, then spoon the filling into the tortillas, roll, put in a baking dish, then top with the sauce. Cook at about 350F about 20-30 minutes (until they're heated through, and cheese is all melted)
?Lorianne Rosales
potatoes with cottage cheese sauce
16 or 24 oz lowfat cottage cheese
1 or 2 baked 9or boiled) potatoes
2 or 3 green onions chopped
1 to 2 oz lowfat milk
salt and pepper to taste
Bake potatoes or boil potatoes or heat a can of potatoes. Mix all other ingredients in bowl and keep refrigerated until potatoes are ready. Pour mixture over potatoes and enjoy!
?Frank Utecht
As a side dish or whatever. I take tomatoes from my garden and slice them open like a flower, then put some cottage cheese in the centre, with a little bit of pepper. And bingo! a great tasty little snack/side/whatever. Enjoy!
?Rosie Wysong
make yer own c.c.!
This recipe is drier and not soupy (unless you put cream with it just before you eat it.) If you put the cream on it when you make it then it will sour and be too 'tart' to eat. I prefer it without the cream as that is how my grandmother made it. My recipe is my grandmother's, and makes a small curd cheese. To about two gallons of skimmed milk I add a cup of buttermilk and allow the milk to come to room temperature and sit, covered, for 24 hours. I then gently cut the curd into about half inch cubes and let it rest for about 15 minutes. Then I start to very gently stir and warm the curds. I do this by using a 'double boiler' method where I heat the water gently, raising the temperature about a degree a minute until it gets about 110 F and let it stay there for about thirty minutes. Then raise it to about 120 and keep stirring gently until the curds are 'dry'.... in other words they will shrink up and sink to the bottom of the pot. If you bite into the curd and it is like yogurt it is not done yet. When it is done, strain and rinse with ice cold water and put into cheese cloth and squeeze out the moisture until it is dry enough to suit you. Salt and put into container and refrigerate.
?Donna R Myers-Raybon (a lucky grrl who has her own cows and goats)
better than butter
(bread spread, but I use it on low-sodium rye crisp, etc)
1 pint lowfat cottage cheese
1/4 cup water
4 Tablespoons nonfat dry milk
2 packages ButterBuds (butter flavor mix)
1-3 packages Splenda sweetener (the amount is to your taste preference - can also use Sweet-N-Low or Equal, but I think Splenda tastes better.)
Put all ingredients in the blender. Blend on low and increase speed until smooth. Pour/scrape it all back into the cottage cheese tub and store in refrigerator. This is less than 7 calories per teaspoon. A huge difference from butter or margarine! 2 envelopes of Butter Buds Mix is equal to 1/4 cup of the Butter Buds Sprinkles. Also, Butter Buds has a refridgerator life of only 3 days once it's been liquified, so I blend all the ingredients for this spread but wait to add the Butter Buds as I want to use it. 1/4 cup of the cottage cheese mixture with 1/2 Tablespoon of Butter Buds Sprinkles mixed in at the last minute is the right ratio.
?Gayle W
Time for some horn tootin'! Rave reviews for the cottage cheese page...
Reader Nick Haines writes:
I'm 23 and had never even tried cottage cheese before now. Always figured it was just one of those dieter's foods. I ran across your page tonight while surfing for nutrition info, and came across "The Cottage Cheese Page". Seeing as how the rest of your site seemed to be true (and you weren't selling anything), I figured I'd give this stuff a try. BTW, I have to disagree with the weightlifters who say it tastes bad; I find it has almost no taste at all (That's not necessarily a bad thing). I LOVE tuna, I can eat that stuff right out of the can! So I figured I try the tuna and cottage cheese mix. I was VERY surprised to find that it tasted even BETTER with the cottage cheese!! One $0.50 can of tuna in spring water, and half a cup of cottage cheese turned out to be a whole meal (if you eat 6 small meals, anyway). I looked at the packages and crunched a few numbers and this 1 bowl of tuna funk had just about the right amount of fat for 1 meal, a negligable amount of carbos, and almost 50 grams of protien!!! Who the hell needs expensive (and usually nasty tasting) protein shakes?!?!? I am indebted to you for this awesome tip, and wanted you to know that you work in this web page has not gone unappreciated!
"gross out your friends" breakfast
1/2 cup CC
3 oz tuna
5 or more egg whites (and one yolk if you want)
1/3 cup dry oatmeal
Seasonings (anny good Southerner will use Tony Chachere's or "Tony's")
Mix well, scramble in a skillet. Chow down. Smells bad, tastes great?kinda like fried matzo.
Gracias,
Stephanie
Austin, TX
or, without the tuna if you prefer...
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1/2 cup old fashioned oatmeal (dry not cooked)
2 or 3 packets of Splenda
4 Egg Whites
Put all ingredients in blender. Spray frying pan with Pam Spray. Pour ingredients into frying pan. It makes one big pancake. I usually top it with a low sugar syrup or fruit spread. I sometimes add 1 tsp. of all natural peanut butter to it. It tastes great.
Regards,
Linda L
I love my cottage cheese either plain, but usually mixed with applesauce (kind of like the yogurt style). I don't really like the yogurt style, because it sits heavier than the applesauce. With the applesauce/cc mix, it is a little like a dessert, but very light and tasty! I will try the other recipes as soon as I head to the store! Great webpage!
?Faith
Cottage cheese mixed with dried Cranberries is absolutely delicious! I came upon this one day when I was starving and these were the only two things in the fridge worth eating. I just tried it again and it is still good.
?Bruce Turnbull
Sounds totally gross - but tastes totally killer:
cottage cheesey steel cut blues
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1/2 cup blueberries
¼ cup steel cut oats
¼ cup sugar-free maple syrup
1 tsp Splenda
Mix cold cooked steel cut oats with Maple syrup. Place in bowl or container. Top with cottage cheese sweetened with one packet Splenda, add thawed blueberries. (Sometimes I leave out the blueberries and just to 1/2 cup oats)
stace's waffles
1 egg white
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1/2 cup cup Bob's Redmill 10-grain pancake mix
1 tsp Splenda
½ tsp vanilla extract
¼ cup sugar-free maple syrup
Blend together cottage cheese, egg whites and vanilla (I use a handheld 'stick' blender) Add waffle mix and Splenda and mix til smooth. Mixture is slightly thick. Pour batter in pre-heated waffle iron coated with cooking spray. You MUST spray iron for every batch! Do not overfill! Cook until well browned, these take longer to cook then regular waffles but every iron varies. Serve with syrup.
?Lisa McPherron
cottage cheese pasta
I was looking at your site (it's good!) because I and my partner are getting into weight training. My mother in law is part of a study to see if lifting weights helps lower blood sugar levels for type II diabetes (looks like it does) and she's encouraged us to do it too. As we are too bogged down with the new baby to manage to get to our regular martial arts training we got right into it at once - we just do it at home with free weights.
Anyway, I found your cottage cheese page, and can't believe people don't like it!!
Here's my cottage cheese pasta that's my absolute favorite lunch meal, especially when it's cold and wet as it is now - I'm in Australia by the way.
I get four or five heaping tablespoons of cottage cheese, a couple of heaping tablespoons of freshly grated parmesan cheese, and a garlic clove or two, finely chopped. I also add some Italian (flat-leaved) parsley, finely chopped if we have any. And then I mix in about 300g of pasta - I don't drain it too thoroughly, as that bit of extra liquid helps melt and mush up the cottage cheese a bit. And that's two good large steaming bowlfuls to stave off winter chills.
?Judy
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"We didn?t get our forty acres and a mule, but we did get you, C.C." ?George Clinton
Cottage cheese nutrient analysis per 120 g serving (1% fat version):
Energy: 99 cal
Protein: 16 g
Fat: 1.2 g
Carbohydrate: 6.0 g
Many weightlifters badmouth cottage cheese, whining that it tastes bad and can't be used in any recipes (I henceforth declare them crybabies, by the way). To overlook cottage cheese is to do without a great source of lean protein and a versatile food.
Thus, I have made it my mission to convert the heathen.
High in protein, low in fat, easily available even in the crummiest dive of a convenience store, and great as a substitute for higher-fat cheeses or in its own right, cottage cheese is truly the food of the gods. Try a few of these (and send me any that you might have) and see if you can't bring CC into your life too.
A disclaimer: I'm a seat-of-the-pants cook and my quantities are often instinctive. The amounts I have given are just suggestions, since I rarely measure things when I cook. Since I'm assuming we lifters all have our own weird diets, most of these are for one person. Adjust amounts accordingly for more.
cottage cheese potato topper
1/2 cup cottage cheese
Fresh herbs, chopped (suggestion: oregano, basil, chives)
Salt to taste
Splash of lemon juice (optional)
Combine above ingredients in blender. Serve over hot baked potatoes.
bean and avocado salad
1 part chopped cooked green beans
1 part cooked kidney beans
1 part chopped avocado
1 part cottage cheese
Splash of lemon juice
Pinch of salt
Mix all ingredients together and serve cold.
tuna pasta
1/2 cup tuna and cottage cheese mix
1 cup chopped tomatoes
1 tbsp olive oil
Mix and heat for a few minutes over medium heat, stirring often, till flavours combine. Toss with pasta and top with grated Parmigiana. For a variation, try adding salsa.
cottage cheese pasta
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1 cup chopped tomatoes
Plenty of chopped fresh basil
1/2 clove chopped garlic
1 tbsp olive oil
Mix and heat for a few minutes over medium heat till flavours combine, cheese melts a bit, and garlic becomes fragrant. Toss with pasta and top with grated Parmigiana.
super easy breakfast
I have this for breakfast almost every morning. Mix 1 part cottage cheese with 1 part flavoured yogurt of your choice. Looks kind of gross but tastes great. Top with fruit if desired. This is a good starter dish for anyone who doesn't really like cottage cheese.
protein blintz
2 eggs
1/3 cup dry curd cottage cheese
frozen blueberries, defrosted to room temperature (you can use whatever fruit you like here, but I use frozen blueberries since they keep well for long periods when fresh berries aren't in season, and they're not packed in syrup)
Beat eggs and pour into small nonstick frying pan heated over medium heat, as if for an omelet. When the edges begin to firm up, push them towards the centre so that the runny stuff in the middle puddles out and cooks. After doing this once or twice, spoon cottage cheese and blueberries on top. Allow the eggs to set fully. The bottom of the omelet should be golden brown (turn it up with a spatula to check). You can either roll up the omelet into a cylinder like a blintz, or simply slide it off the pan and fold it in half like an omelet. If this isn't sweet enough, try beating a little bit of sugar or sweetener into the eggs beforehand. I don't like it too sweet.
cottage cheese fruit dip
1 cup cottage cheese
2 tablespoons sugar (more or less depending on taste)
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Combine above ingredients in blender. Serve with fruit. For the Ukrainians in the crowd, this is also nice drizzled over poppyseed cake. Or, you can simply mix cottage cheese with cut-up fruit for a nice fruit salad.
tuna and cottage cheese mix
1 part canned tuna
1 part cottage cheese
This mixture is incredibly versatile. Eat it on its own or use it in a sandwich.
tuna melts
Prepare tuna and cottage cheese mix. Spread over pieces of bread (nice multigrain buns cut in half work well for this). Top with sprinkling of grated cheddar cheese (old cheddar gives you the most flavour bang for your buck, and ensures you don't need a lot). Microwave for a minute or so, or grill under broiler (watch it?these burn fast!), till cheese on top is melted.
lasagne
Use cottage cheese in place of ricotta in your favourite lasagne recipe to reduce the overall calories and saturated fat. Regular cottage cheese works better than lowfat cheese here.
tuna and cottage cheese salad
Prepare tuna and cottage cheese mix. Toss with vinaigrette, chopped tomatoes, mixed leafy greens, and whatever other fresh chopped veggies you feel like throwing in. You can even toss in some chopped cooked egg whites if you like. Tastes pretty good on its own or topped with grated Parmigiana (you guessed it, I put the stuff on everything!). As a variation, toss cottage cheese alone with some fresh chopped spinach and shredded red cabbage in a creamy dressing.
Vinaigrette:
(since vinaigrette recipes are as individual as chili recipes, this is merely a suggestion for those of you so culinarily impaired that the thought of prepping your own vinaigrette paralyzes you completely)
1/2 cup olive oil or 1/4 cup olive and 1/4 cup flax seed oil
1/4 cup red cooking wine
1/4 cup lemon juice
1/2 to 1 tsp Dijon mustard (depending on how zesty you like your vinaigrettes?I like them to burn my sinuses)
Pinch of salt and pepper
Pinch of dried basil, oregano, parsley, and/or garlic
Combine all ingredients in a sealed container and shake to blend. You can adjust proportions to taste and add natural yogurt (or even blenderized cottage cheese!) for a creamier texture.
cottage cheese pancakes
This one is really delicious, especially with the addition of the recommended ingredients.
2-3 beaten eggs
1 cup cottage cheese
Honey or a couple of teaspoons of sugar, to taste (a banana will make it naturally sweeter)
1 cup uncooked oatmeal
Optional, highly recommended ingredients:
banana
a sprinkle of cinnamon
a splash of vanilla
Grab your handy blender and dump the ingredients in, in the order they appear (otherwise the mixture will get all chunky). So, eggs in first, then start the blender. As it's blending, pour in the cottage cheese, then the banana if you're using it, then whatever sweeteners and spices you like, then the oatmeal. Once this is nicely blended, cook as you would pancakes, in a nonstick pan over medium-low heat. I love these plain or with fruit, but you can put syrup on them too, just like regular pancakes.
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cottage cheese nachos
fat free cottage cheese
lean or extra lean ground beef)
some tomaotes/green peppers or salsa
some tostito low fat baked sour cream and cheese tortilla chips
Combine all ingredients and you have some healthy nachos! They are awesome, high in protein, low in carb and fat.... try to get as much as possible from the cottage cheese (cottage cheese is the sour cream substitute) and as little as possible from the chips... also, try cottage cheese mixed with microwaved garbanzos and add 1 packet of Equal.....
cottage cheese and "tasteless tuna"
Also, try this discovery: if you boil tuna for 2 minutes in water, it loses about 80-90% of that nasty tuna taste! Just don't eat it hot. Pour cool water over it and drain it so that it is cool and dry and it is almost tasteless! Mix it with cottage cheese and Equal and garbanzo beans and it is perfect!
?Jeff Ward
My favourite breakfast consists of cottage cheese and other stuff. It's taken from one of the Zone recipe books. Anyway here it is:
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1/4 cup plain yogurt
1 cup of frozen blueberries (big plump ones, not pale little ones)
1/3 cup of unsweetened applesauce
1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg or more to your liking
1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon, again to your liking
4 teaspoons of slivered or sliced almonds
1) put the cottage cheese and yogurt in a bowl
2) blend the blueberries (can be misc frozen fruit if market doesn't have any) with the applesauce
3) put the blueberry mix into the above bowl
4) put the nutmeg and cinnamon in the bowl
5) mix it all up
6) dust top with almonds
Delicious!
?Lyndsey Ferguson
I've just got one Cottage cheese recipe. I love it and eat it every day. Just take Cottage chesse and add 3 tsp of sugar and 2 tsp of cocoa for every cup. I think it's better than chocolate milk and doesn't have much more sugar.
?Chris Gold
I love cottage cheese too, and have been enjoying a crazy recipe which I saw on your page for some time now (Chris Gold's recipe, above). I can't believe someone else likes this! I call it "chocolate cheese" and it grosses everybody out! She suggests sugar, but I think it tastes great with 2 packets of equal. You can also add 1/2 tsp vanilla extract if you wanna make it extra yummy. It tastes like chocolate cheesecake!! Another thing I love, love, love is equal parts store bought salsa and cottage cheese as a dip for fat free tortilla chips. This is awesome! I call it "Salsa Con Cottage Queso" and I made it up while living in Texas, feeling sorry for myself while missing out on all that yummy tex-mex. I can eat it just plain with a spoon!!
I take thin sliced turkey (you know, lunch meat style) lay it out flat, put in some cottage cheese, and pickle, of course, roll it up, and eat. Quick, and lots of protein!
?Laurie Jones
I use cottage cheese as a really healthy filling for baked potatoes. Cook the potatoes as usual and then scoop out the flesh. Mix this approximately equal amount of with cottage cheese and season with salt and pepper. Fill the potatoes back up with the mixture and dollop a bit more cottage cheese on top! Healthy, yummy and filling.
?Caroline Middlebrook
My favorite is mixing 1/2 cup of cottage cheese with 1/2 cup of sugar free jello. It's yummy!
?Mary Wasielewski
I offer you a cottage cheese topping for a bagel, or perhaps a filling for a pita or celery stalks: Drop a portion of cottage cheese in some cheese cloth & squeeze, squeeze, squeeze out the liquid. Put it in a bowl with some garlicky Mrs. Dash or your favorite dry herbs/seasonings, and mush it with a fork. This spreads easily over a toasted bagel and won't make it soggy!
?Juliana Williamson-Page
I have never been a cottage cheese fan, however, a great invention that I discovered is mixing a bowl of cottage cheese with fresh fruit and a spoonful of cool whip light. This is a great late night snack that always satisfies my sweet tooth attacks. Try it out, I'm sure you will love it!!
?Sherrill Guinn
cheesecake
2 cups dry curd pressed cottage cheese (fat percentage optional)
3 eggs
1/2 cup yogurt (any percentage of fat)
1/3 cup honey
1 tsp. grated lemon peel
1-2 tsp. vanilla
Preheat oven to 350. Combine ingredients and process until satin smooth. Pour into loaf pan and bake 30 minutes or until edges are slightly browned. Cool and refrigerate for several hours. Top with fresh or cooked drained berries or fruit of choice. Serves 8. 148 calories per serving. 12.65 g of protein, 20.5 g of carbs, 2.5 g of fat. From "Breaking the Vicious Cycle" by Elaine Gottschall.
?Carol Frilegh
Scramble some eggs and just before you are ready to take them out of the pan, add some diced tomatoes and some cottage cheese just long enough to make them warm. The cheese should just start to melt a little but still look like pieces of cottage cheese. (Sounds gross but tastes good.)
?Nancy Hill
So glad to see more uses for my stand-by protein. Like many others I have a recipe that I too stumbled on. It is kind of like a Waldorf salad without the mayo (but you could add it if you wanted to).
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1/4 cup ultra low-fat Cool Whip or equivalent frozen edible oil type topping
1/2 apple cut up
1 tablespoon of Heath bar or Skor bar...caramel bits
slivered almonds or walnuts (optional)
Mix it all together and eat. Leave it overnight and the caramel will blend and it will taste even better. I can't believe that this is good for me. I feel like I cheat every time I eat it.
?Glenda
Hey Krista, I thought I'd let you in on my favorite cottage cheese snack. Take a piece of good, chewy, whole wheat/multigrain bread and toast it to your prefered shade. Layer on some cottage cheese, and then top with some well-drained crushed pineapple. Sprinkle a little ginger over the whole thing, and you've got a very satisfying treat. It's so incredibly good. I hope you like it as much as I like your site, which is lots and lots.
?Tara.
cottage cheese smoothie
Hello Krista, I absolutely love your website! I wanted to pass along this delicious cottage cheese smoothie recipe for your cottage cheese page. It's delicious and filling.....even my kids like it!
In a blender combine:
1/2 cup of cottage cheese (low or nonfat)
1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries
1 cup of milk (low or nonfat)
1 scoop of protein powder (optional)
1 packet of Splenda or sweetner of choice
For those that use flax oil, you can add a tablespoon to this and it doesn't really change the taste. Blend for 1 to minutes, serve and enjoy! Best Regards,
?Alexandra L
Krista, Thanks for your great site. My workout partner and I especially love the cottage cheese page... it is our ultimate food, since we are teachers and need quick, packable lunches. I like Indian food, so I made up a recipe that is sort of Indianish:
.5 cup cottage cheese (non or lowfat)
.5 cup frozen spinach (the kind that comes in a bag can be thrown in while it's still frozen)
.5 cup organic canned lentils
1 t. curry powder
garlic powder and pepper to taste
I throw everything into a tupperware container the night before and just zap it for a couple of minutes in the microwave at lunch and stir. The cheese gets melty and I think it's delicious. It's a good way to get more veggies, protein and fiber, too.
Thanks again,
Alicia Hamilton
christina's two second miracle
1. toast a sourdough or whole wheat English Muffin
2. scoop on 1% or fat free cottage cheese
3. add some hot salsa sauce on top of the cottage cheese...that's it!
Yum Yum Yum Yum
I hope you like it. You can use it on your page if you'd like.
Take care,
Christina
cottage cheese & tortilla stackup
1 lb container cottage cheese
4 oz can diced green chiles
1 egg, beaten (can use 2 if eggs are smallish)
1 dozen or so corn tortillas
grated jack/cheddar cheese
Mix together the cc, chiles and egg(s) in a bowl. Layer tortillas, then mix, then grated cheese in a baking dish and bake at 350F for 30-45 minutes. Serves 6 or so.
vegetarian enchiladas
corn tortillas (heated until pliable)
enchilada sauce (I use the canned variety, easy)
cottage cheese
rice (optional)
green onion
jack cheese
Mix together all ingredients except the tortillas and sauce, then spoon the filling into the tortillas, roll, put in a baking dish, then top with the sauce. Cook at about 350F about 20-30 minutes (until they're heated through, and cheese is all melted)
?Lorianne Rosales
potatoes with cottage cheese sauce
16 or 24 oz lowfat cottage cheese
1 or 2 baked 9or boiled) potatoes
2 or 3 green onions chopped
1 to 2 oz lowfat milk
salt and pepper to taste
Bake potatoes or boil potatoes or heat a can of potatoes. Mix all other ingredients in bowl and keep refrigerated until potatoes are ready. Pour mixture over potatoes and enjoy!
?Frank Utecht
As a side dish or whatever. I take tomatoes from my garden and slice them open like a flower, then put some cottage cheese in the centre, with a little bit of pepper. And bingo! a great tasty little snack/side/whatever. Enjoy!
?Rosie Wysong
make yer own c.c.!
This recipe is drier and not soupy (unless you put cream with it just before you eat it.) If you put the cream on it when you make it then it will sour and be too 'tart' to eat. I prefer it without the cream as that is how my grandmother made it. My recipe is my grandmother's, and makes a small curd cheese. To about two gallons of skimmed milk I add a cup of buttermilk and allow the milk to come to room temperature and sit, covered, for 24 hours. I then gently cut the curd into about half inch cubes and let it rest for about 15 minutes. Then I start to very gently stir and warm the curds. I do this by using a 'double boiler' method where I heat the water gently, raising the temperature about a degree a minute until it gets about 110 F and let it stay there for about thirty minutes. Then raise it to about 120 and keep stirring gently until the curds are 'dry'.... in other words they will shrink up and sink to the bottom of the pot. If you bite into the curd and it is like yogurt it is not done yet. When it is done, strain and rinse with ice cold water and put into cheese cloth and squeeze out the moisture until it is dry enough to suit you. Salt and put into container and refrigerate.
?Donna R Myers-Raybon (a lucky grrl who has her own cows and goats)
better than butter
(bread spread, but I use it on low-sodium rye crisp, etc)
1 pint lowfat cottage cheese
1/4 cup water
4 Tablespoons nonfat dry milk
2 packages ButterBuds (butter flavor mix)
1-3 packages Splenda sweetener (the amount is to your taste preference - can also use Sweet-N-Low or Equal, but I think Splenda tastes better.)
Put all ingredients in the blender. Blend on low and increase speed until smooth. Pour/scrape it all back into the cottage cheese tub and store in refrigerator. This is less than 7 calories per teaspoon. A huge difference from butter or margarine! 2 envelopes of Butter Buds Mix is equal to 1/4 cup of the Butter Buds Sprinkles. Also, Butter Buds has a refridgerator life of only 3 days once it's been liquified, so I blend all the ingredients for this spread but wait to add the Butter Buds as I want to use it. 1/4 cup of the cottage cheese mixture with 1/2 Tablespoon of Butter Buds Sprinkles mixed in at the last minute is the right ratio.
?Gayle W
Time for some horn tootin'! Rave reviews for the cottage cheese page...
Reader Nick Haines writes:
I'm 23 and had never even tried cottage cheese before now. Always figured it was just one of those dieter's foods. I ran across your page tonight while surfing for nutrition info, and came across "The Cottage Cheese Page". Seeing as how the rest of your site seemed to be true (and you weren't selling anything), I figured I'd give this stuff a try. BTW, I have to disagree with the weightlifters who say it tastes bad; I find it has almost no taste at all (That's not necessarily a bad thing). I LOVE tuna, I can eat that stuff right out of the can! So I figured I try the tuna and cottage cheese mix. I was VERY surprised to find that it tasted even BETTER with the cottage cheese!! One $0.50 can of tuna in spring water, and half a cup of cottage cheese turned out to be a whole meal (if you eat 6 small meals, anyway). I looked at the packages and crunched a few numbers and this 1 bowl of tuna funk had just about the right amount of fat for 1 meal, a negligable amount of carbos, and almost 50 grams of protien!!! Who the hell needs expensive (and usually nasty tasting) protein shakes?!?!? I am indebted to you for this awesome tip, and wanted you to know that you work in this web page has not gone unappreciated!
"gross out your friends" breakfast
1/2 cup CC
3 oz tuna
5 or more egg whites (and one yolk if you want)
1/3 cup dry oatmeal
Seasonings (anny good Southerner will use Tony Chachere's or "Tony's")
Mix well, scramble in a skillet. Chow down. Smells bad, tastes great?kinda like fried matzo.
Gracias,
Stephanie
Austin, TX
or, without the tuna if you prefer...
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1/2 cup old fashioned oatmeal (dry not cooked)
2 or 3 packets of Splenda
4 Egg Whites
Put all ingredients in blender. Spray frying pan with Pam Spray. Pour ingredients into frying pan. It makes one big pancake. I usually top it with a low sugar syrup or fruit spread. I sometimes add 1 tsp. of all natural peanut butter to it. It tastes great.
Regards,
Linda L
I love my cottage cheese either plain, but usually mixed with applesauce (kind of like the yogurt style). I don't really like the yogurt style, because it sits heavier than the applesauce. With the applesauce/cc mix, it is a little like a dessert, but very light and tasty! I will try the other recipes as soon as I head to the store! Great webpage!
?Faith
Cottage cheese mixed with dried Cranberries is absolutely delicious! I came upon this one day when I was starving and these were the only two things in the fridge worth eating. I just tried it again and it is still good.
?Bruce Turnbull
Sounds totally gross - but tastes totally killer:
cottage cheesey steel cut blues
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1/2 cup blueberries
¼ cup steel cut oats
¼ cup sugar-free maple syrup
1 tsp Splenda
Mix cold cooked steel cut oats with Maple syrup. Place in bowl or container. Top with cottage cheese sweetened with one packet Splenda, add thawed blueberries. (Sometimes I leave out the blueberries and just to 1/2 cup oats)
stace's waffles
1 egg white
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1/2 cup cup Bob's Redmill 10-grain pancake mix
1 tsp Splenda
½ tsp vanilla extract
¼ cup sugar-free maple syrup
Blend together cottage cheese, egg whites and vanilla (I use a handheld 'stick' blender) Add waffle mix and Splenda and mix til smooth. Mixture is slightly thick. Pour batter in pre-heated waffle iron coated with cooking spray. You MUST spray iron for every batch! Do not overfill! Cook until well browned, these take longer to cook then regular waffles but every iron varies. Serve with syrup.
?Lisa McPherron
cottage cheese pasta
I was looking at your site (it's good!) because I and my partner are getting into weight training. My mother in law is part of a study to see if lifting weights helps lower blood sugar levels for type II diabetes (looks like it does) and she's encouraged us to do it too. As we are too bogged down with the new baby to manage to get to our regular martial arts training we got right into it at once - we just do it at home with free weights.
Anyway, I found your cottage cheese page, and can't believe people don't like it!!
Here's my cottage cheese pasta that's my absolute favorite lunch meal, especially when it's cold and wet as it is now - I'm in Australia by the way.
I get four or five heaping tablespoons of cottage cheese, a couple of heaping tablespoons of freshly grated parmesan cheese, and a garlic clove or two, finely chopped. I also add some Italian (flat-leaved) parsley, finely chopped if we have any. And then I mix in about 300g of pasta - I don't drain it too thoroughly, as that bit of extra liquid helps melt and mush up the cottage cheese a bit. And that's two good large steaming bowlfuls to stave off winter chills.
?Judy
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I like cream cheese alot. But any cheese is tasty! I was the Dairy Baby of Montogomery County Iowa in 1976.
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Cottage cheese rules.Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
the cottage cheese page
an homage to and cheerful rip-off of the great Tuna Page by Deepsquatter
"We didn?t get our forty acres and a mule, but we did get you, C.C." ?George Clinton
Cottage cheese nutrient analysis per 120 g serving (1% fat version):
Energy: 99 cal
Protein: 16 g
Fat: 1.2 g
Carbohydrate: 6.0 g
Many weightlifters badmouth cottage cheese, whining that it tastes bad and can't be used in any recipes (I henceforth declare them crybabies, by the way). To overlook cottage cheese is to do without a great source of lean protein and a versatile food.
Thus, I have made it my mission to convert the heathen.
High in protein, low in fat, easily available even in the crummiest dive of a convenience store, and great as a substitute for higher-fat cheeses or in its own right, cottage cheese is truly the food of the gods. Try a few of these (and send me any that you might have) and see if you can't bring CC into your life too.
A disclaimer: I'm a seat-of-the-pants cook and my quantities are often instinctive. The amounts I have given are just suggestions, since I rarely measure things when I cook. Since I'm assuming we lifters all have our own weird diets, most of these are for one person. Adjust amounts accordingly for more.
cottage cheese potato topper
1/2 cup cottage cheese
Fresh herbs, chopped (suggestion: oregano, basil, chives)
Salt to taste
Splash of lemon juice (optional)
Combine above ingredients in blender. Serve over hot baked potatoes.
bean and avocado salad
1 part chopped cooked green beans
1 part cooked kidney beans
1 part chopped avocado
1 part cottage cheese
Splash of lemon juice
Pinch of salt
Mix all ingredients together and serve cold.
tuna pasta
1/2 cup tuna and cottage cheese mix
1 cup chopped tomatoes
1 tbsp olive oil
Mix and heat for a few minutes over medium heat, stirring often, till flavours combine. Toss with pasta and top with grated Parmigiana. For a variation, try adding salsa.
cottage cheese pasta
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1 cup chopped tomatoes
Plenty of chopped fresh basil
1/2 clove chopped garlic
1 tbsp olive oil
Mix and heat for a few minutes over medium heat till flavours combine, cheese melts a bit, and garlic becomes fragrant. Toss with pasta and top with grated Parmigiana.
super easy breakfast
I have this for breakfast almost every morning. Mix 1 part cottage cheese with 1 part flavoured yogurt of your choice. Looks kind of gross but tastes great. Top with fruit if desired. This is a good starter dish for anyone who doesn't really like cottage cheese.
protein blintz
2 eggs
1/3 cup dry curd cottage cheese
frozen blueberries, defrosted to room temperature (you can use whatever fruit you like here, but I use frozen blueberries since they keep well for long periods when fresh berries aren't in season, and they're not packed in syrup)
Beat eggs and pour into small nonstick frying pan heated over medium heat, as if for an omelet. When the edges begin to firm up, push them towards the centre so that the runny stuff in the middle puddles out and cooks. After doing this once or twice, spoon cottage cheese and blueberries on top. Allow the eggs to set fully. The bottom of the omelet should be golden brown (turn it up with a spatula to check). You can either roll up the omelet into a cylinder like a blintz, or simply slide it off the pan and fold it in half like an omelet. If this isn't sweet enough, try beating a little bit of sugar or sweetener into the eggs beforehand. I don't like it too sweet.
cottage cheese fruit dip
1 cup cottage cheese
2 tablespoons sugar (more or less depending on taste)
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Combine above ingredients in blender. Serve with fruit. For the Ukrainians in the crowd, this is also nice drizzled over poppyseed cake. Or, you can simply mix cottage cheese with cut-up fruit for a nice fruit salad.
tuna and cottage cheese mix
1 part canned tuna
1 part cottage cheese
This mixture is incredibly versatile. Eat it on its own or use it in a sandwich.
tuna melts
Prepare tuna and cottage cheese mix. Spread over pieces of bread (nice multigrain buns cut in half work well for this). Top with sprinkling of grated cheddar cheese (old cheddar gives you the most flavour bang for your buck, and ensures you don't need a lot). Microwave for a minute or so, or grill under broiler (watch it?these burn fast!), till cheese on top is melted.
lasagne
Use cottage cheese in place of ricotta in your favourite lasagne recipe to reduce the overall calories and saturated fat. Regular cottage cheese works better than lowfat cheese here.
tuna and cottage cheese salad
Prepare tuna and cottage cheese mix. Toss with vinaigrette, chopped tomatoes, mixed leafy greens, and whatever other fresh chopped veggies you feel like throwing in. You can even toss in some chopped cooked egg whites if you like. Tastes pretty good on its own or topped with grated Parmigiana (you guessed it, I put the stuff on everything!). As a variation, toss cottage cheese alone with some fresh chopped spinach and shredded red cabbage in a creamy dressing.
Vinaigrette:
(since vinaigrette recipes are as individual as chili recipes, this is merely a suggestion for those of you so culinarily impaired that the thought of prepping your own vinaigrette paralyzes you completely)
1/2 cup olive oil or 1/4 cup olive and 1/4 cup flax seed oil
1/4 cup red cooking wine
1/4 cup lemon juice
1/2 to 1 tsp Dijon mustard (depending on how zesty you like your vinaigrettes?I like them to burn my sinuses)
Pinch of salt and pepper
Pinch of dried basil, oregano, parsley, and/or garlic
Combine all ingredients in a sealed container and shake to blend. You can adjust proportions to taste and add natural yogurt (or even blenderized cottage cheese!) for a creamier texture.
cottage cheese pancakes
This one is really delicious, especially with the addition of the recommended ingredients.
2-3 beaten eggs
1 cup cottage cheese
Honey or a couple of teaspoons of sugar, to taste (a banana will make it naturally sweeter)
1 cup uncooked oatmeal
Optional, highly recommended ingredients:
banana
a sprinkle of cinnamon
a splash of vanilla
Grab your handy blender and dump the ingredients in, in the order they appear (otherwise the mixture will get all chunky). So, eggs in first, then start the blender. As it's blending, pour in the cottage cheese, then the banana if you're using it, then whatever sweeteners and spices you like, then the oatmeal. Once this is nicely blended, cook as you would pancakes, in a nonstick pan over medium-low heat. I love these plain or with fruit, but you can put syrup on them too, just like regular pancakes.
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cottage cheese nachos
fat free cottage cheese
lean or extra lean ground beef)
some tomaotes/green peppers or salsa
some tostito low fat baked sour cream and cheese tortilla chips
Combine all ingredients and you have some healthy nachos! They are awesome, high in protein, low in carb and fat.... try to get as much as possible from the cottage cheese (cottage cheese is the sour cream substitute) and as little as possible from the chips... also, try cottage cheese mixed with microwaved garbanzos and add 1 packet of Equal.....
cottage cheese and "tasteless tuna"
Also, try this discovery: if you boil tuna for 2 minutes in water, it loses about 80-90% of that nasty tuna taste! Just don't eat it hot. Pour cool water over it and drain it so that it is cool and dry and it is almost tasteless! Mix it with cottage cheese and Equal and garbanzo beans and it is perfect!
?Jeff Ward
My favourite breakfast consists of cottage cheese and other stuff. It's taken from one of the Zone recipe books. Anyway here it is:
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1/4 cup plain yogurt
1 cup of frozen blueberries (big plump ones, not pale little ones)
1/3 cup of unsweetened applesauce
1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg or more to your liking
1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon, again to your liking
4 teaspoons of slivered or sliced almonds
1) put the cottage cheese and yogurt in a bowl
2) blend the blueberries (can be misc frozen fruit if market doesn't have any) with the applesauce
3) put the blueberry mix into the above bowl
4) put the nutmeg and cinnamon in the bowl
5) mix it all up
6) dust top with almonds
Delicious!
?Lyndsey Ferguson
I've just got one Cottage cheese recipe. I love it and eat it every day. Just take Cottage chesse and add 3 tsp of sugar and 2 tsp of cocoa for every cup. I think it's better than chocolate milk and doesn't have much more sugar.
?Chris Gold
I love cottage cheese too, and have been enjoying a crazy recipe which I saw on your page for some time now (Chris Gold's recipe, above). I can't believe someone else likes this! I call it "chocolate cheese" and it grosses everybody out! She suggests sugar, but I think it tastes great with 2 packets of equal. You can also add 1/2 tsp vanilla extract if you wanna make it extra yummy. It tastes like chocolate cheesecake!! Another thing I love, love, love is equal parts store bought salsa and cottage cheese as a dip for fat free tortilla chips. This is awesome! I call it "Salsa Con Cottage Queso" and I made it up while living in Texas, feeling sorry for myself while missing out on all that yummy tex-mex. I can eat it just plain with a spoon!!
I take thin sliced turkey (you know, lunch meat style) lay it out flat, put in some cottage cheese, and pickle, of course, roll it up, and eat. Quick, and lots of protein!
?Laurie Jones
I use cottage cheese as a really healthy filling for baked potatoes. Cook the potatoes as usual and then scoop out the flesh. Mix this approximately equal amount of with cottage cheese and season with salt and pepper. Fill the potatoes back up with the mixture and dollop a bit more cottage cheese on top! Healthy, yummy and filling.
?Caroline Middlebrook
My favorite is mixing 1/2 cup of cottage cheese with 1/2 cup of sugar free jello. It's yummy!
?Mary Wasielewski
I offer you a cottage cheese topping for a bagel, or perhaps a filling for a pita or celery stalks: Drop a portion of cottage cheese in some cheese cloth & squeeze, squeeze, squeeze out the liquid. Put it in a bowl with some garlicky Mrs. Dash or your favorite dry herbs/seasonings, and mush it with a fork. This spreads easily over a toasted bagel and won't make it soggy!
?Juliana Williamson-Page
I have never been a cottage cheese fan, however, a great invention that I discovered is mixing a bowl of cottage cheese with fresh fruit and a spoonful of cool whip light. This is a great late night snack that always satisfies my sweet tooth attacks. Try it out, I'm sure you will love it!!
?Sherrill Guinn
cheesecake
2 cups dry curd pressed cottage cheese (fat percentage optional)
3 eggs
1/2 cup yogurt (any percentage of fat)
1/3 cup honey
1 tsp. grated lemon peel
1-2 tsp. vanilla
Preheat oven to 350. Combine ingredients and process until satin smooth. Pour into loaf pan and bake 30 minutes or until edges are slightly browned. Cool and refrigerate for several hours. Top with fresh or cooked drained berries or fruit of choice. Serves 8. 148 calories per serving. 12.65 g of protein, 20.5 g of carbs, 2.5 g of fat. From "Breaking the Vicious Cycle" by Elaine Gottschall.
?Carol Frilegh
Scramble some eggs and just before you are ready to take them out of the pan, add some diced tomatoes and some cottage cheese just long enough to make them warm. The cheese should just start to melt a little but still look like pieces of cottage cheese. (Sounds gross but tastes good.)
?Nancy Hill
So glad to see more uses for my stand-by protein. Like many others I have a recipe that I too stumbled on. It is kind of like a Waldorf salad without the mayo (but you could add it if you wanted to).
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1/4 cup ultra low-fat Cool Whip or equivalent frozen edible oil type topping
1/2 apple cut up
1 tablespoon of Heath bar or Skor bar...caramel bits
slivered almonds or walnuts (optional)
Mix it all together and eat. Leave it overnight and the caramel will blend and it will taste even better. I can't believe that this is good for me. I feel like I cheat every time I eat it.
?Glenda
Hey Krista, I thought I'd let you in on my favorite cottage cheese snack. Take a piece of good, chewy, whole wheat/multigrain bread and toast it to your prefered shade. Layer on some cottage cheese, and then top with some well-drained crushed pineapple. Sprinkle a little ginger over the whole thing, and you've got a very satisfying treat. It's so incredibly good. I hope you like it as much as I like your site, which is lots and lots.
?Tara.
cottage cheese smoothie
Hello Krista, I absolutely love your website! I wanted to pass along this delicious cottage cheese smoothie recipe for your cottage cheese page. It's delicious and filling.....even my kids like it!
In a blender combine:
1/2 cup of cottage cheese (low or nonfat)
1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries
1 cup of milk (low or nonfat)
1 scoop of protein powder (optional)
1 packet of Splenda or sweetner of choice
For those that use flax oil, you can add a tablespoon to this and it doesn't really change the taste. Blend for 1 to minutes, serve and enjoy! Best Regards,
?Alexandra L
Krista, Thanks for your great site. My workout partner and I especially love the cottage cheese page... it is our ultimate food, since we are teachers and need quick, packable lunches. I like Indian food, so I made up a recipe that is sort of Indianish:
.5 cup cottage cheese (non or lowfat)
.5 cup frozen spinach (the kind that comes in a bag can be thrown in while it's still frozen)
.5 cup organic canned lentils
1 t. curry powder
garlic powder and pepper to taste
I throw everything into a tupperware container the night before and just zap it for a couple of minutes in the microwave at lunch and stir. The cheese gets melty and I think it's delicious. It's a good way to get more veggies, protein and fiber, too.
Thanks again,
Alicia Hamilton
christina's two second miracle
1. toast a sourdough or whole wheat English Muffin
2. scoop on 1% or fat free cottage cheese
3. add some hot salsa sauce on top of the cottage cheese...that's it!
Yum Yum Yum Yum
I hope you like it. You can use it on your page if you'd like.
Take care,
Christina
cottage cheese & tortilla stackup
1 lb container cottage cheese
4 oz can diced green chiles
1 egg, beaten (can use 2 if eggs are smallish)
1 dozen or so corn tortillas
grated jack/cheddar cheese
Mix together the cc, chiles and egg(s) in a bowl. Layer tortillas, then mix, then grated cheese in a baking dish and bake at 350F for 30-45 minutes. Serves 6 or so.
vegetarian enchiladas
corn tortillas (heated until pliable)
enchilada sauce (I use the canned variety, easy)
cottage cheese
rice (optional)
green onion
jack cheese
Mix together all ingredients except the tortillas and sauce, then spoon the filling into the tortillas, roll, put in a baking dish, then top with the sauce. Cook at about 350F about 20-30 minutes (until they're heated through, and cheese is all melted)
?Lorianne Rosales
potatoes with cottage cheese sauce
16 or 24 oz lowfat cottage cheese
1 or 2 baked 9or boiled) potatoes
2 or 3 green onions chopped
1 to 2 oz lowfat milk
salt and pepper to taste
Bake potatoes or boil potatoes or heat a can of potatoes. Mix all other ingredients in bowl and keep refrigerated until potatoes are ready. Pour mixture over potatoes and enjoy!
?Frank Utecht
As a side dish or whatever. I take tomatoes from my garden and slice them open like a flower, then put some cottage cheese in the centre, with a little bit of pepper. And bingo! a great tasty little snack/side/whatever. Enjoy!
?Rosie Wysong
make yer own c.c.!
This recipe is drier and not soupy (unless you put cream with it just before you eat it.) If you put the cream on it when you make it then it will sour and be too 'tart' to eat. I prefer it without the cream as that is how my grandmother made it. My recipe is my grandmother's, and makes a small curd cheese. To about two gallons of skimmed milk I add a cup of buttermilk and allow the milk to come to room temperature and sit, covered, for 24 hours. I then gently cut the curd into about half inch cubes and let it rest for about 15 minutes. Then I start to very gently stir and warm the curds. I do this by using a 'double boiler' method where I heat the water gently, raising the temperature about a degree a minute until it gets about 110 F and let it stay there for about thirty minutes. Then raise it to about 120 and keep stirring gently until the curds are 'dry'.... in other words they will shrink up and sink to the bottom of the pot. If you bite into the curd and it is like yogurt it is not done yet. When it is done, strain and rinse with ice cold water and put into cheese cloth and squeeze out the moisture until it is dry enough to suit you. Salt and put into container and refrigerate.
?Donna R Myers-Raybon (a lucky grrl who has her own cows and goats)
better than butter
(bread spread, but I use it on low-sodium rye crisp, etc)
1 pint lowfat cottage cheese
1/4 cup water
4 Tablespoons nonfat dry milk
2 packages ButterBuds (butter flavor mix)
1-3 packages Splenda sweetener (the amount is to your taste preference - can also use Sweet-N-Low or Equal, but I think Splenda tastes better.)
Put all ingredients in the blender. Blend on low and increase speed until smooth. Pour/scrape it all back into the cottage cheese tub and store in refrigerator. This is less than 7 calories per teaspoon. A huge difference from butter or margarine! 2 envelopes of Butter Buds Mix is equal to 1/4 cup of the Butter Buds Sprinkles. Also, Butter Buds has a refridgerator life of only 3 days once it's been liquified, so I blend all the ingredients for this spread but wait to add the Butter Buds as I want to use it. 1/4 cup of the cottage cheese mixture with 1/2 Tablespoon of Butter Buds Sprinkles mixed in at the last minute is the right ratio.
?Gayle W
Time for some horn tootin'! Rave reviews for the cottage cheese page...
Reader Nick Haines writes:
I'm 23 and had never even tried cottage cheese before now. Always figured it was just one of those dieter's foods. I ran across your page tonight while surfing for nutrition info, and came across "The Cottage Cheese Page". Seeing as how the rest of your site seemed to be true (and you weren't selling anything), I figured I'd give this stuff a try. BTW, I have to disagree with the weightlifters who say it tastes bad; I find it has almost no taste at all (That's not necessarily a bad thing). I LOVE tuna, I can eat that stuff right out of the can! So I figured I try the tuna and cottage cheese mix. I was VERY surprised to find that it tasted even BETTER with the cottage cheese!! One $0.50 can of tuna in spring water, and half a cup of cottage cheese turned out to be a whole meal (if you eat 6 small meals, anyway). I looked at the packages and crunched a few numbers and this 1 bowl of tuna funk had just about the right amount of fat for 1 meal, a negligable amount of carbos, and almost 50 grams of protien!!! Who the hell needs expensive (and usually nasty tasting) protein shakes?!?!? I am indebted to you for this awesome tip, and wanted you to know that you work in this web page has not gone unappreciated!
"gross out your friends" breakfast
1/2 cup CC
3 oz tuna
5 or more egg whites (and one yolk if you want)
1/3 cup dry oatmeal
Seasonings (anny good Southerner will use Tony Chachere's or "Tony's")
Mix well, scramble in a skillet. Chow down. Smells bad, tastes great?kinda like fried matzo.
Gracias,
Stephanie
Austin, TX
or, without the tuna if you prefer...
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1/2 cup old fashioned oatmeal (dry not cooked)
2 or 3 packets of Splenda
4 Egg Whites
Put all ingredients in blender. Spray frying pan with Pam Spray. Pour ingredients into frying pan. It makes one big pancake. I usually top it with a low sugar syrup or fruit spread. I sometimes add 1 tsp. of all natural peanut butter to it. It tastes great.
Regards,
Linda L
I love my cottage cheese either plain, but usually mixed with applesauce (kind of like the yogurt style). I don't really like the yogurt style, because it sits heavier than the applesauce. With the applesauce/cc mix, it is a little like a dessert, but very light and tasty! I will try the other recipes as soon as I head to the store! Great webpage!
?Faith
Cottage cheese mixed with dried Cranberries is absolutely delicious! I came upon this one day when I was starving and these were the only two things in the fridge worth eating. I just tried it again and it is still good.
?Bruce Turnbull
Sounds totally gross - but tastes totally killer:
cottage cheesey steel cut blues
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1/2 cup blueberries
¼ cup steel cut oats
¼ cup sugar-free maple syrup
1 tsp Splenda
Mix cold cooked steel cut oats with Maple syrup. Place in bowl or container. Top with cottage cheese sweetened with one packet Splenda, add thawed blueberries. (Sometimes I leave out the blueberries and just to 1/2 cup oats)
stace's waffles
1 egg white
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1/2 cup cup Bob's Redmill 10-grain pancake mix
1 tsp Splenda
½ tsp vanilla extract
¼ cup sugar-free maple syrup
Blend together cottage cheese, egg whites and vanilla (I use a handheld 'stick' blender) Add waffle mix and Splenda and mix til smooth. Mixture is slightly thick. Pour batter in pre-heated waffle iron coated with cooking spray. You MUST spray iron for every batch! Do not overfill! Cook until well browned, these take longer to cook then regular waffles but every iron varies. Serve with syrup.
?Lisa McPherron
cottage cheese pasta
I was looking at your site (it's good!) because I and my partner are getting into weight training. My mother in law is part of a study to see if lifting weights helps lower blood sugar levels for type II diabetes (looks like it does) and she's encouraged us to do it too. As we are too bogged down with the new baby to manage to get to our regular martial arts training we got right into it at once - we just do it at home with free weights.
Anyway, I found your cottage cheese page, and can't believe people don't like it!!
Here's my cottage cheese pasta that's my absolute favorite lunch meal, especially when it's cold and wet as it is now - I'm in Australia by the way.
I get four or five heaping tablespoons of cottage cheese, a couple of heaping tablespoons of freshly grated parmesan cheese, and a garlic clove or two, finely chopped. I also add some Italian (flat-leaved) parsley, finely chopped if we have any. And then I mix in about 300g of pasta - I don't drain it too thoroughly, as that bit of extra liquid helps melt and mush up the cottage cheese a bit. And that's two good large steaming bowlfuls to stave off winter chills.
?Judy
Open main weights page in new window
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Cheddar, extra sharp is my favorite, but I can eat just about any cheese except that fake processed crap that's mostly oil.
meltdown75
Lifer
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Yes, life would not be the same without cheese. My fave.. wow. So many cheeses... ummmmmmm
I can't decide. I love cheese.
I can't decide. I love cheese.
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