What do you get when you take a cottage ...
and put cheese with it???
That's right Cottage Cheese!
One of my favorite after school snacks when I was a kid was cold cottage cheese sprinkled with pepper til it smoked...or on a sweet day I sprinkled sugar over my pile of cottage cheese.
Today I like to top a hot baked potato with it or mix it in with a garden salad.
Cottage Cheese is eaten by itself, with fruit, with fruit puree on toast, in green salads, or used as a ingredient in recipes such lasagna, jello salads and various dessert! Hows 'bout dat?
One of the Weight Watchers dishes I use to fix was to put some cottage cheese on a piece of toast and then nuke it in the microwave with sprinkled cinnamon on it...it was delicious to me. If I used 1 slice (45 calories) of what was called half the calorie bread that I bought from the store, it was a great low cal meal. I'd like to try this on one of those thin bagels that are now available from the Super Market.
The term "COTTAGE CHEESE" is believed to have originated cause the simple cottage cheese was usually made in cottages from any milk left over after making butter. The term was first used in 1848.
I haven't ever tried to make my own cottage cheese...if I did I suppose I would call it Haven Cottage...maybe I'm onto something here.
Cottage Living can be alot of fun. Summer time where the living is easy.
God bless our HOMES
~Deanna~
9 comments:
Hey Girl, this was interesting! I just love how you come up with all this inside info. I love it too! I eat mine with pineapple, or peaches! My son loves it with pepper! I have not tried that tho! But this post was fun!:).
Mmmmm...some wonderful ideas for cottage cheese are here. Thanks. My favorite combo is cottage cheese and apple butter. I first had this in the Amish country of PA...around Lancaster. It was served in a relish tray. Since then, we lived up there (in West Chester) and I was able to get the BEST apple butter from an orchard, a mile from my house. Then these wonderful people taught me how to make my own...with THEIR apples. Yum!
Hugs,
Jane
Greetings Deanna, Loved this post with the great photos too. When I was in high school my mom got me hooked on Cottage Cheese-generally with veges but sometimes with fruit. When I did WW, I bought the combo packs-cottage cheese and fruit-so good,especially the pineapple. Makes me want some right now 8-)
I am off of dairy so will have to pass up this great food.
Enjoy.
Noreen
I love cottage cheese and use it often for a good low fat protein. Years ago one of my friends made her own cottage cheese all the time. I was always a little afraid to eat it, so I made excuses! "No thanks, I think I'll just have a glass of tea." I'm not sure she really knew how to keep it safe...but she's still kickin', so I guess my fears were unwarranted!! LOL
hi deanna
i love cottage cheese too,with fruit sood, have a nice sweetie..stop by soon cilla
Oh, I remember seeing cottages like that in England. So pretty!
Marmie,
I love cottage cheese too! I love it with salt all over it! And I love it with my salad and crackers :O)
However... I wrinkle my nose at microwaved cottage cheese. I think it is because I remeber it from childhood ;O)
Love you very much!
Ashley
I do so adore cottage cheese myself! I almost always have a container in the refrigerator. It's easy to pack into my lunch that I take to work also. I throw some fruit in my lunch bag, or a small can of crushed pineapple, add to the cottage cheese and have a nice healthy snack or side for my lunch.
Dd,
You know me... I wrinkle my nose at cottage cheese all the time. Maybe it was because my grandmother put it in green jello, loved the jello, but what was all that chunky stuff?!
Maybe one day I will give it a try and learn to like it.... kind of like when I couldn't stand pizza...then when I was nearing starvation, out of money in college and helped some bearded guy who's car ran out of gas (your older brother) and as a gesture of kindness offered to buy pizza, I said I didn't like pizza... he responded with something like "then starve".... I was too hungry to not try it, and then I learned that it was actually good.
So... maybe one day I'll give it a try.
Nice post, great pictures!
Rg
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