cottage cheese
an extremely soft, or loose, white, mild-flavored cheese made from skim-milk curds, usually without rennet.
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Origin of cottage cheese
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How to use cottage cheese in a sentence
Upgrade to “special,” and the kitfo comes with collard greens and housemade cottage cheese.
Meals I make myself are a respite from the complex, the opposite of upscale, sometimes just a baked sweet potato split and plied with cottage cheese or, better yet, grated Parmesan or crumbled feta, whatever I happen to have on hand.
The food critic gets critiqued: What Tom Sietsema learned in a year of pandemic home cooking | Tom Sietsema | July 14, 2021 | Washington PostWhile some Westerners are disgusted by insect larvae on a plate, Easterners are similarly revolted by the idea of lifting curdles from soured milk, adding salt, and giving the resulting product a quaint name like “cottage cheese.”
It is ostentatiously opulent, involving matzoh, butter, cottage cheese, eggs and dollops of strawberry jam, all previously verboten.
Gene Weingarten: Behold, the worst diet of all time | Gene Weingarten | April 15, 2021 | Washington PostL’Auberge Chez Francois demonstrates their value, as when garlic toast and herbed cottage cheese appear on the table, just as they have always kicked off a meal.
L’Auberge Chez Francois is ready for its close-up, yet again | Tom Sietsema | April 9, 2021 | Washington Post
Feel good about using cottage cheese as a dip because it delivers calcium, quality protein and potassium.
6 Ways to Avoid ‘Sochi Gut’ While Watching the Olympics | Jenna A. Bell | February 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBecause ending occupation is low on the agenda of Israeli voters, lower even than the price of cottage cheese.
If You Want To Be Politically Irrelevant, Support BDS | John L. Rosove | October 21, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST“Ending occupation is low on the agenda of Israeli voters, lower even than the price of cottage cheese,” she writes.
Who's Afraid of the Right of Return? A Response to Kathleen Peratis on BDS | Tom Pessah | October 17, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThey were about doctors willing to go on hunger strike, sky-rocketing cottage cheese prices, and the Arab Spring.
Casein is known in its commonest form as the curd in milk, or as cottage cheese.
To compare Sanatogen to cottage cheese is the height of absurdity—as it was probably intended to be.
When Esmay returned she brought with her a bowl containing a small quantity of cottage cheese, hard and yellow with age.
The Doomsman | Van Tassel SutphenCream cheese, ordinary American cheese, or even cottage cheese finely mashed may be used for this purpose.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and SciencesIf not a sufficient amount of cottage cheese is in supply to serve for a meal, it may very well be used for this dish.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 2 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
British Dictionary definitions for cottage cheese
a mild loose soft white cheese made from skimmed milk curds
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