?recipes using dry cottage cheese curds

[glendak]

Hi
I'm fairly new to this site and 21 days into the PP intervention. I hasve bought a large container of dry curd cottage cheese and wouldlike to have more ideas of quick uses for it. The dry curd has more protein and less carbs per volume than creamed cottage cheese and I like this. If you have any ideas please share with me.
Thanks
"hanging in there":rolleyes:

[Gaelen]

Hi, Glendak...welcome in!

You can use dry curd cottage cheese nearly anywhere you'd use regular cottage cheese, although depending on what you're making, you might need a bit of half and half to help moisten the mixture.

You can use dry curd or farmer's cheese in cheesecakes (sweet and savory), quiches, cheese and cream sauces, pastries/pancakes/muffins, and nearly any kind of shake recipe. Here's a sample of recipes in these forums that use cottage or ricotta cheese, and would adapt easily to a dry curd cheese substitution:

Thread--Recipe
Spreads & Dips #2--Tuna Snacking Dip
Pancakes & Bowl Muffins--Almond-Cranberry Pancakes, Billie's Ricotta Pancakes, Flax Seed Meal Pancakes, Pancakes, Ricotta Pancakes,
Muffins #1--Fluffy Cinnamon Muffins
Casseroles & Bakes #1--Noodle Kugel
Bread Pudding--Sweet Cranberry Cheese Bread Pudding
Cereals--Low Carb Mock Co-Co Wheats

To find others, click on "Search", and search the "Let's Cook" forums, by post, for key words like "ricotta", "cottage cheese," "dry curd" or "farmer's cheese."

Other Sources:
People following the Specific Carb Diet (see Breaking the Vicious Cycle by Elaine Gottschalck) use a lot of dry curd cottage cheese (which they often abbreviate DCCC.) Check here (http://www.scdiet.org/2recipes/indexa.html) for their recipe index.

Here is the link to Friendship Dairies dry curd cottage cheese recipe index (http://www.friendshipdairies.com/recipes/farmer.shtml). Note: none of these recipes have been de-carbed!

Other sources are Greek, Ukrainian and Russian cookbooks--traditional recipes use a lot of dry curd cottage cheese, and many are naturally low carb. I have a Polish community cookbook from the fifties and a Russian cookbook that both have at least two dozen recipes from appetizers to main dishes to desserts that use dry curd cottage cheese.

Hope this helps.

[cmcole]

I used to love dry curd cottage cheese.
It is not distributed in Newfoundland.