Is America Ready to Love Cottage Cheese Again?

[elleng]

After languishing in yogurt’s shadow for decades, cottage cheese is back, sporting new flavors and small-batch appeal.

'Cottage cheese began life in America as an easy, economical way for colonial cooks to make use of milk left over after they skimmed off the cream. By the 1970s, its amicable presence in recipes and on diet plates had made it a star.
Fame is fickle, and so are the nation’s eaters. Cottage cheese fell out of favor, and now spends its days hanging out in stodgy pint containers near the sour cream, while yogurt sprawls out across acres of the dairy case, dressed up in cute little tubes, flip tops and French glass jars.

America loves a comeback, though, and there are plenty of people who are betting that cottage cheese is primed for one.

“Every seven years or so another wave comes through where we try to reposition cottage cheese,” said Dave Potter, the president of Dairy Connection in Madison, Wis., which sells custom cultures and enzymes to cheese makers. “That’s about where we are now.”'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/dining/cottage-cheese.html?

Not exciting, but I do share with y'all! I use cot ch to 'expand' guacamole, add 1-2 t-spoons of small curd, stir and serve.

Polish Cottage Cheese Dip (Gzik)

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1019372-polish-cottage-cheese-dip-gzik

[irisblue]

1. I still do.

Cottage cheese, tomato cubes, cilantro, 1 slice of jalapeno, minced, cilantro sprinkles = bfast or lunch.

[Yonnie3]

2. I never abandoned cottage cheese

I eat it often. Sometimes just some tossed into my salad and often in a bowl with fruit.

[Ohiogal]

3. I never stopped loving it!

A scoop of cottage cheese with fresh pineapple chunks is one of my favorite things to eat for breakfast.

[dem in texas]

17. cottage cheese and gingerbread

When I was a kid, my mother would bake a pan of gingerbread and serve up a hunk of warm gingerbread with a side of cottage cheese and pineapple chunks. Her six children (I am one) loved this dessert. I used to serve the same to my three children when they were young.

[Siwsan]

4. It's a big part of my Summertime 'go to' lunch ideas

With fruit, now, and once the garden starts producing, with fresh picked tomatoes, warm off of the vine.

[Little Star]

5. I've always loved it.....

I often eat it plain with just salt and pepper.

[littlewolf]

18. this is me .... love it with just salt and pepper ....

[BarbaRosa]

6. I've grown to like it,

didn't care for it at all as a kid, but now I rather enjoy a dish of CC.

[Polly Hennessey]

7. Love it for breakfast

with a sprinkle of pepper (small curd).

[Kali]

8. full fat add salt and chives

have always liked it cottage cheese, easier to deal with as a snack than yogurt. Why is all the yogurt plain or with fruit? Why don't they make tzaziki too?

[Yonnie3]

9. Caution: Geezer Anecdote

I still remember in grammar school, the student teacher bringing in milk and cheesecloth and showing us how to make cottage cheese. I don't remember how she did it, just that, wow, she made cottage cheese. That must have been in nineteen fifty mumble.

[elleng]

10. Lucky, none of my fifty mumble teachers did that!

[braddy]

11. Nixon liked his with ketchup on it.

[littlewolf]

19. that explains so much about him ......

[Frustratedlady]

12. My mother made cottage cheese every week. It was a staple on the dinner table.

I have never found anything like it since she passed, but the memories are still pretty vivid. It was a very small curd and drier than today's milky mixture. I use today's cc in lasagna and eat bowls of cc with fruit for lunch.

When I left home in 1956, I worked downtown and had very little money to spend on lunch. There was a lunch counter that had wonderful sandwiches and cottage cheese with peach halves. Believe it or not, a large dish of that mix was a quarter and I could add all the packages of crackers to my lunch as needed. Since I usually stopped in on Fridays (since about the only money I had left was a quarter or two), the waitresses got to know me. I swear, they doubled the serving from half a peach to a whole peach with lots of cottage cheese on top...topped by a maraschino cherry. I was grateful that they helped me get through until I got paid that afternoon. As a result, that is one of my favorite lunch dishes because of the nice gesture to a young girl newly on her own.

I cannot believe how many of my grandchildren and great-grands eat cottage cheese. They will never turn it down and almost always order a side dish when eating out.

[Freddie]

13. Never was crazy about it

Mom, being Pennsylvania Dutch, ate it with apple butter. When I was a kid there was an orange-flavored cottage cheese with pineapple bits and that was really good. Haven't seen that in eons.

[TomSlick]

14. I'm sorry.

Cottage cheese is just clabbered milk. If cottage cheese goes bad, does it start to smell or taste good?

[Luciferous]

15. I've always loved cottage cheese, sometimes I'll eat a bowl of it with French dressing mixed in.

Otherwise I like having it with salads.

[geardaddy]

16. I love cottage cheese.

Always have.