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Cottage cheese

130 replies

PennyPinkPineapple · 10/11/2023 14:22

I tried cottage cheese for the first time today and I have no words, other than "BLAAAAHHHH"!

I was expecting something similar to ricotta, but it was like yogurt with crumbly chunks of ?, I don't even know what.

Have I just chosen a bad one (Sainsbury's)? Is it better heated up? What am I supposed to do with the rest of the pot?

YABU - Cottage cheese is delicious
YANBU - It is baby sick

OP posts:
DappledThings · 10/11/2023 14:23

It's delicious! I eat by the spoonful straight from the pot. Also very good in a jacket potato.

FuzzyPuffling · 10/11/2023 14:24

Buy Longley Farm cottage cheese.
It is the best. Not runny, lovely texture and taste. Yummm......

Lastnightsbolognese · 10/11/2023 14:25

Its quite nice on toast. I'd try the Longley Farm version. I'm not sure how far south/north they get from Yorkshire though.

In general I'd not go out of my way to choose it as favourite snack. So I've not voted.

Coastalcreeksider · 10/11/2023 14:27

FuzzyPuffling · 10/11/2023 14:24

Buy Longley Farm cottage cheese.
It is the best. Not runny, lovely texture and taste. Yummm......

I had this lunchtime, the pineapple one. I can eat a whole tub of it.

I've bought lots of supermarket ones and they are all watery. This one is so thick and creamy, it's the best I think. More expensive but worth it.

dun1urkin · 10/11/2023 14:28

Yeah you chose badly. Longley Farm (full fat) is the way to go. On toast. With black pepper.

LoobyDop · 10/11/2023 14:29

Don’t heat it up, though. Never.

Original poster
PennyPinkPineapple · 10/11/2023 14:29

FuzzyPuffling · 10/11/2023 14:24

Buy Longley Farm cottage cheese.
It is the best. Not runny, lovely texture and taste. Yummm......

Okay thanks, I'll keep an eye out for it. I normally like anything cheese related but this was an abomination.

OP posts:
FuzzyPuffling · 10/11/2023 14:32

My favourite cottage cheese recipe:
Fry a chopped onion and leek.
Mix with equal quantities of grated cheddar and cottage cheese (Longley Farm of course)
Roll out ready made puff pastry to pasty sized squares
Fill, seal and bake in a hot oven.

Even fussy children seem to like these!

megletthesecond · 10/11/2023 14:32

Yabu. Love the stuff. Get some digestive or choc digestive biscuits and scoop it out of the tub with them

LoreleiG · 10/11/2023 14:33

I used to love this on jacket potato. Haven’t bought for years!

Dartmoorcheffy · 10/11/2023 14:34

Another vote here for full fat Longley Farm. It's the only nice cottage cheese. No other tastes like it at all.

PosiePerkinPootleFlump · 10/11/2023 14:35

I am pretty unfussy and can eat just about anything quite happily, but bounty bars and cottage cheese are my red line.
I'd probably do something like this to use it up as you won't get the vomit texture that way https://www.thekitchn.com/cottage-cheese-pancakes-263223

3-Ingredient Cottage Cheese Pancakes

You'll never guess the surprise ingredient.

https://www.thekitchn.com/cottage-cheese-pancakes-263223

SingingSands · 10/11/2023 14:37

Sainsburys cottage cheese IS an abomination OP - Longley Farm or nothing.

Yoghurt with bits is exactly what I think of supermarket cottage cheese.

Longley Farm is thick, tasty, and heaven in a pot.

LoreleiG · 10/11/2023 14:38

PosiePerkinPootleFlump · 10/11/2023 14:35

I am pretty unfussy and can eat just about anything quite happily, but bounty bars and cottage cheese are my red line.
I'd probably do something like this to use it up as you won't get the vomit texture that way https://www.thekitchn.com/cottage-cheese-pancakes-263223

With you on bounties. I’d add anything with marzipan.

SallyWD · 10/11/2023 14:38

It's lovely mixed with grated cheddar and put on a jacket potatoe

Surely2023IsTheYearForMyRainbowBaby · 10/11/2023 14:39

You can mix it with an egg and make a crustless quiche with it. I just fry off some bacon onions and mushrooms and add to a flan dish, pour the mixture over the top, add grated cheese and bake for around 25 mins until it's set

BrimfulOfMash · 10/11/2023 14:40

I love cottage cheese, Longley Farm. Satisfyingly filling and creamy while being low fat, low calorie, high protein. I like it on pumpernickel or dark ryvita, with black pepper.

But plenty of people don’t like it.

It’s not compulsory.

ohtowinthelottery · 10/11/2023 14:40

I can just about stomach it if it's got pineapple or chives in but plain cottage cheese - no thank you!

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 10/11/2023 14:41

I like it! It definitely should not be heated up. If you found it disgusting, I'd be very surprised if trying a different brand would help. Some are nicer than others, but they are all cottage cheese. It's meant to be like that!

HangTheJib · 10/11/2023 14:43

Just here to agree with the 'Longley Farm or forget about it' sentiments.

madeinmanc · 10/11/2023 14:43

I've had one from Riverford that has a totally different consistency, more the consistency of ricotta but a totally different flavour. I wish it were more widely available, but I've never had anything else like it. It's not lumpy or watery at all:

https://www.riverford.co.uk/organic-dairy-and-eggs/cheese/cottage-cheese

TerrierOrTerror · 10/11/2023 14:45

The Sainsbury's one is grim.

The Waitrose one is much nicer, but now I am going after the brand's mentioned by PP. I really enjoy cottage cheese - have it on a jacket potato, I blend it and use as a cream cheese replacement in bagels, add to scrambled eggs to bulk them. My favourite snack in the summer was cucumber slices topped with a dollop of cottage cheese and some cracked black pepper.

ThinWomansBrain · 10/11/2023 14:46

i make a recipe with eggs & cottage cheese in the summer - it's a bit like a crustless quiche

murasaki · 10/11/2023 14:47

Sick in a pot. And even worse with pineapple.

Amd I say that as someone who will be judged for liking pineapple on a pizza.

Mountainhowl · 10/11/2023 14:48

Another vote here for longley farm, it's the only one I will eat, others tend to be watery, bitty and occasionally taste really weird. Longley farm is always consistent, nice and thick, creamy. I've never had a bad tub of theirs and now won't touch any other