How do YOU use cottage cheese in lasagne?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The cottage cheese lasagna thing is some weird mid century food move to make cooking “easier” on women. Resulting in tons of gross food concoctions.

Ricotta wasn’t available to a lot of our mothers and grandmothers, snob. So they made substitutions like cooks always have.

Was milk, flour, butter available? That is how lasagna is made. Bechamel sauce uses common ingredients but takes more time to make. Easier to dump in a tub of cottage cheese.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The cottage cheese lasagna thing is some weird mid century food move to make cooking “easier” on women. Resulting in tons of gross food concoctions.

Ricotta wasn’t available to a lot of our mothers and grandmothers, snob. So they made substitutions like cooks always have.

Was milk, flour, butter available? That is how lasagna is made. Bechamel sauce uses common ingredients but takes more time to make. Easier to dump in a tub of cottage cheese.

Tedious. In a world that didn’t contain ricotta, you think there was so much instruction on authentic Italian food? They made white sauces regularly and put them in hot dishes. Which is basically what lasagna is, but that wasn’t their understanding of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Real lasagna doesn’t have ricotta and it really doesn’t have cottage cheese. Bechamel.

Not true. Lasagne with a red sauce doesn’t typically have ricotta. But spinach lasagne or pesto does use ricotta. —-Italian.

I don’t know where in Italy you are from, but those two types of lasagna are also made with bechamel. To each his own though.
Another Italian

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I use the cottage cheese as is. No running through a food processor. I started doing it because my mother did it. And she did it because it’s fewer calories. People love my lasagna.

Same. I use small curd cottage cheese. When I was in grad school with my now DH, his roommates would buy the ingredients so that I would make my mom's lasagna. They cleaned up. It is a great budget meal with side veges for poor college students.

Huh? Cottage cheese is pricier than ricotta!

[Anonymous]

We do this and the entire family likes it. Cottage cheese in the food processor and the texture is great. Isn’t cottage cheese healthier than ricotta?

https://cookieandkate.com/best-vegetable-lasagna-recipe/

[Anonymous]

Isn't ricotta a type of cottage cheese?