Cottage cheese

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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

Full fat Longley Farm, creamy and slightly salty, delicious!
I've found it in Morrisons, Home Bargains and Spar

I like cheese. I like yogurt. Unfortunately cottage cheese just looks too gross and tasteless. I'll have Boursin thanks

The only place I can find Longley Farm is in Iceland.

Beyond gross.
Full disclosure: have never actually managed to bring myself to put any in my mouth.

Asda sell Longley farm. My toddler loves cottage cheese pancakes. Would be lovely with avocado or bacon!

Although it’s technically cheese, you’re wrong to equate it with normal block cheese. It’s more like milk curds. If you want something creamy and sour it’s great. The only thing I ever use it for is on a jacket potato for with loads of pepper and sometimes chopped chives.

You need longley farm! The full fat one 😋

I am totally obsessed with Longley farm and as a Yorkshire person ate heaps growing up.

It's a totally different thing from the watery supermarket crap.

Am curious, can you get this easily outside Yorkshire though? Don't remember seeing it much when I lived in London. Just another reason to move home.

Longley farm definitely

You can also blend it until it's smooth and use it in a sauce/dip/recipe

Morrisons, Asda and Home Bargains

Also agree with Longley Farm, Asda sell it, I can't seem to get it in Waitrose or Tesco, independent shops often sell it

Another vote for Longley Farm. No other brand even comes close

I like scooping it onto prawn cocktail crisps

Not all supermarkets have Longley's Farm; Home Bargains definitely have it. It's wonderful stuff. Gret high protein snack.

Another vote for (full fat) Longley Farm here, heaven in a pot, any flavour.

Actually Lidl's one is lovely and creamy with no liquid. Aldi's isn't so good

Another vote for Lidl it's the only one I will eat as it's creamy and thick.. I do now want to try Longley farm !

Longley Farm is the stuff to get (but I don’t hate lesser brands): daubed onto thick soft white bread with sliced tomatoes and cucumber and a good grind of salt is my favourite breakfast!

I'm a major fan of cottage cheese.

I especially like it for breakfast with finely chopped chives stirred in served with sliced tomatoes and salami. It's a real "wake up your taste buds" breakfast.

Another way I use it is to stir in some seafood sauce, capers and cooked prawns, (or you could use offcuts of smoked salmon) and serve with lettuce, rocket and avocado for a quick lunch. Or I sometimes add chopped ham and sun dried tomatoes plus some herbs....lovely piled on granary bread.

Absolutely. It's a class above anything else.

Another vote here for Lidl's full-fat cottage cheese 👌

I was introduced it to it by a Polish friend who said it was v similar to what she'd grown up with back home. She served it on crunchy toast (think bruschetta) topped with chopped tomatoes/cucumber, with a little spring onion and salt&pepper, and I add a drizzle of EVOO. Delicious!

And I've just made those 3-ingredient pancakes linked upthread (thank you!) and they were great - I chucked in an over-ripe banana too.

I've never been able to even try it due to the official description of thrush symptoms- 'cottage cheese like' discharge. No thanks.

Blitz it up in a blender and use it as a dip for cucumber/tomatoes/pepper/crackers. Really nice with a bit of dijon mustard added.

I also like boiled eggs mixed with cottage cheese and again mustard.

Both good high protein snacks if you can get over the texture. Blending definitely helps

Normal cottage is horrible and bland but Longley Farm, on a jacket potato, is delicious. (Especially the pineapple one). I have it with grated cheddar too. Butter, then a bit of grated cheese, then a whole pot of Longley Farm, then some more grated cheese on top with black pepper.

Meant to be like that, as in lumps in liquid? Hmmm...maybe not then

Yes, that's pretty much what cottage cheese is! The Longley one is a different texture, but probably still not different enough if you were that disgusted by the other one!