re: What to do with cottage cheese

Put some Cavenders seasoning on it and eat the hell out of it.

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I've never heard of putting it in lasagna? You sure it isn't ricotta cheese?

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My mother did this with one half of the lasagna since my father didn’t like it.

It became popular in the mid 60’s just like the pineapple mayonnaise cheddar salad (which I eat on occasion)

Back then no one outside of the east coast had even heard of ricotta. When it was really introduced I guess in the 80’s it replaced cottage cheese in lasagna. For the most part.

I do the same. Half in lasagna. I’ll eat the other half with just a bit of sea salt on it. Which is how my mother used it up too. Except back then nobody used sea salt. It was Morton’s only.

Times have changed.

We make chips with Cottage Cheese

Cottage cheese is vile. That’s all I got.

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I've never heard of putting it in lasagna? You sure it isn't ricotta cheese?

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The recipe my wife uses for lasagna calls for cottage cheese. It’s like the lasagna version of white people tacos. Brown some beef, dump in bottle of store bought sauce, no bake lasagna noodles. Layer the noodles, meat sauce with dollops of cottage cheese between layers. Dump a bag of shredded cheese on top and bake. It’s edible and I don’t complain but definitely not as good as mine.

I do a bolognese sauce from scratch with egg noodle lasagna and a bechamel sauce. Add some fresh motz between layers and freshly grated Parmesan.

I like it for breakfast with bagel seasoning on it. Or I mix in pico de gallo.

Slice of toasted sourdough. Cottage cheese spread on it. A slice of tomato on top of that. Cover with Everything Bagel seasoning. Enjoy.

I'm not a big fan of it, but there is an occasional recipe that uses it well. The current "health" trend of using it as anything other than a type of cheese baffles me though, like making "high protein" brownies and stuff with it. They are almost always garbage.

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Eat it on its own;

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With a crap ton of black pepper