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Like it and buy it as a "treat" maybe 2-3x a year. Usually with chives.

A local restaurant used to serve a bread basket when they brought the water and took the drink orders. It has a few rolls but mostly bread sticks, Rye-Crisps and the like, and came with a dish of cottage cheese dip that had mixed veggies in it and a few seasonings like garlic. Think veggie cream cheese but with cottage cheese instead of cream cheese. It was delish!

Chuck
 
When I grew up it seemed like there was always cottage cheese and fruit on the table for breakfast and dinner. Mostly canned peaches unless she had fresh fruit from neighbors trees. Mom bought Knudsen large curd in the blue container. I am sure because dad liked it. I would sometimes talk her in to getting small curd in yellow container. Somewhat dry which I liked. She would also get pineapple or chives with cottage cheese. I can remember plum juice dripping thru cheese cloth in to a porcelain white pot for plum jelly. Who knows what else ended up in that pot.

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Dan

my Mom also preferred large curd cottage cheese, and I liked the small curd better when I was a kid too. Back in the 80’s I used to bring cottage cheese with salsa on it for my lunch at work. With all this talk of cottage cheese I’m going to have to buy some, I’m starting to get a craving for it.

It’s too bad though that you can’t buy the full 4% fat cottage cheese around here anymore, it tastes much better than the 2%, and the non fat, forget about it!

Does anyone remember that Tricky Dick Nixon’s favorite daily lunch was cottage cheese with ketchup on it?

Eddie
 
I love it as long as its 2% fat with Strawberries and bananas. Otherwise it tastes like shit in anything else I have ever had it in.
I am a Yogurt guy I love that stuff..
With a bad Gall bladder I have to watch everything I eat, so its convenient when I need something with protein.
 
Eddie, lol

This thread is having the same effect on me!
As I said in my earlier comment, I don't dislike cc, but I never buy it myself.
Now, I'm starting to think I just might need to pick some up the next time I'm at the store!
The power of suggestion, I guess!

Barry
 
I like it in a jello salad that was moms recipe. If I have to go on a soft food diet, for medical or dental reasons I'll make up a batch and eat it through the week as desert or late night snack. Think it's straight out of the 1960's, it's pretty good actually, and I'm not too fond of cc.

Mandarin Orange Salad
Blend 1 package orange jello into 1 carton of small-curd cottage cheese. Stir in 1 can of drained, crushed pineapple and 1 can of drained mandarin oranges, and 1 small carton Cool Whip. Blend well. Refrigerate.

Barry
 
We love cottage cheese here. We usually have it as a side with dinner or with tuna as a light snack. They sell CC with pineapple in it that is super yummy. It is weird though how some love it and others hate it. Never an in between.
 
Lime Jello Salad

is a family tradition for our Thanksgiving dinner.

Lime Jello Salad
3 small boxes or 1 large and 1 small box of Lime Jello, not sugar free
3 cups boiling water
1 20oz. can crushed pineapple, undrained (either packed in juice or syrup)
1 pt. cottage cheese, small or large curd, and not fat free
1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Dissolve the jello in the boiling water, add the can of pineapple, juice and all and chill in fridge until partially set. Add the cottage cheese and walnuts and pour into a 9”X9” square Pyrex dish, that has been either lightly oiled or sprayed with Pam. Chill until firmly set. Cut into 12 squares, its rich, so a small portion is enough.

Next to the dressing, this is my favorite dish for Thanksgiving. It’s easy and really delicious.

Eddie
 
At least a couple of people say it's either love or hate. Lord Kenmore, as part of his never-ending quest to be contrary, has an opinion in between. LOL

 

I don't actively hate it, and sometimes get it. But...I can also say that I don't love it, and don't get it that often. Usually, it seems that I'd get it because I'd see a tub on clearance at the grocery store, and figure: "Might as well--it's been a while!"

 
 
*Am I not mistaking, Dear Laundress, but do the Brits call it Clotted Cream, now that sounds icky*

No we don't, clotted cream is a completely different product and despite its name of clotted, the product itself isn't actually completely lumpy like cottage cheese (the crust at the top is and of course is removed)

It's a very thick set, heavy sweet cream, usually put with strawberry jam (I'm sure us refer to that as Jelly but the Jelly, Jello thing is confusing to a Brit) on to Scones (which I believe the US call biscuits, but whilst very very similar - not identical, scones are sweeter).

I can only every recall having clotted cream in store bought clotted cream Vanilla Ice cream. May have a had a CC scone somewhere but can't 100 remember.
 
I eat cottage cheese every so often. I buy United Dairy 2% large curd.
I eat it with a little salt and plenty of black pepper.

One thing grandma used to make for dinner that her and grandpas loved was cottage cheese noodles.
It was egg noodles, browned butter or bacon grease, and cottage cheese. I thought it was one of the most horrible things.
It must have been some sort of Hungarian dish, as I met a few Hungarian ladies on the employee shuttle while working in the city and they all were served the same dish.
 
I like cottage cheese. Eat it Pennsylvania Dutch style with some apple butter on top. Most cottage cheese now seems to be full of gums. Daisy is the only brand around here made with just milk, cream and salt. It's quite good.
 
In an effort to use up the stuff before having to bin for going bad, have to say IMHO much of the avoidance towards CC must be from looks of the stuff. It doesn't have much of a taste, and as such seems to take cue from whatever being served/mixed.

Over past several days have added a dollop or two of CC to a plate of macaroni with beef and red sauce, spinach ravioli stuffed with three cheeses and served with red sauce; tasted rather like putting ricotta.

Even wolfed down a tablespoon full of CC plain, it just doesn't have much of a taste.

Again while this has all been very informative and so forth, don't believe will be adding CC to weekly grocery list anytime soon. *LOL*
 

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