Anonymous
Post 08/11/2022 08:09     Subject: How do YOU use cottage cheese in lasagne?
I had a boyfriend in high school whose mom made lasagna by layering ketchup and cottage cheese with lasagna noodles. I couldn't bring myself to try that one.

My favorite lasagna to make is Samin Nosrat's: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1021031-the-big-lasagna

I use no-boil noodles because they come out less mushy. I blend the ricotta/herbs/spinach in the food processor. This one is a freaking labor but so amazing. I see all of you arguing bechamel vs ricotta and I raise you bechamel AND ricotta.

BTW my family are Italian Jews. Not sure if they would have "approved" of this recipe but sure they would have enjoyed eating it.
Anonymous
Post 08/11/2022 08:03     Subject: How do YOU use cottage cheese in lasagne?
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.
Anonymous
Post 08/11/2022 08:01     Subject: How do YOU use cottage cheese in lasagne?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Feed the cottage cheese to the dog and purchase ricotta


This.


Or, make lasagna with a bechamel as God intended.


God intended fFranco-Italian food? Interesting . . .

Yes, real Italian lasagna has bechamel or besciamella. It is not limited to French food. And once you try lasagna this way, you will never go back.

It is my favorite, but I love a lot of layered and baked flat noodle dishes. Black bean lasagna with cream cheese and ricotta mixed; you could use cottage cheese though per this thread! Traditional lasagna. American lasagna. I haven’t loved a vegetarian lasagna but I suspect that’s because I haven’t had the right one yet.
Anonymous
Post 08/11/2022 07:12     Subject: Re:How do YOU use cottage cheese in lasagne?
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.
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2022 13:09     Subject: How do YOU use cottage cheese in lasagne?
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.


Honestly, if you tried it, you would not even know it is there. I agree with a pp who wrote it is less grainy in texture than ricotta


I don’t use either
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2022 11:57     Subject: How do YOU use cottage cheese in lasagne?
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.


Honestly, if you tried it, you would not even know it is there. I agree with a pp who wrote it is less grainy in texture than ricotta
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2022 11:45     Subject: How do YOU use cottage cheese in lasagne?
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.
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2022 11:41     Subject: How do YOU use cottage cheese in lasagne?
I associate it with Lean Cuisine (meatless?) lasagna (in the early 1980s). My family (poor & from the Midwest & not Italian) always used ricotta.

That said, ricotta and cottage cheese are made from the same 3 ingredients (milk/vinegar or lemon juice/salt). Difference is mainly in texture.
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2022 20:22     Subject: Re:How do YOU use cottage cheese in lasagne?
Anonymous wrote:This is how my mom made it. She added a beaten egg to the cottage cheese along with the parmesan and herbs.


This is what we always did too (another Midwesterner). I prefer it to ricotta, which I've always thought had an unpleasant sandy texture.
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2022 20:12     Subject: How do YOU use cottage cheese in lasagne?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Feed the cottage cheese to the dog and purchase ricotta


This.


Or, make lasagna with a bechamel as God intended.


God intended fFranco-Italian food? Interesting . . .

Yes, real Italian lasagna has bechamel or besciamella. It is not limited to French food. And once you try lasagna this way, you will never go back.
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2022 20:10     Subject: Re:How do YOU use cottage cheese in lasagne?
Real lasagna doesn’t have ricotta and it really doesn’t have cottage cheese. Bechamel.
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2022 19:50     Subject: How do YOU use cottage cheese in lasagne?
My mom did the beaten egg plus herbs added to the cottage cheese. Was always delicious!

For stuffed shells she mixes 1/2 ricotta and 1/2 cottage cheese.
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2022 18:53     Subject: How do YOU use cottage cheese in lasagne?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Feed the cottage cheese to the dog and purchase ricotta


This.


Or, make lasagna with a bechamel as God intended.


God intended fFranco-Italian food? Interesting . . .


Right nowhere in the world did they ever make flour +butter based sauces until France codified it. Fool.
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2022 17:48     Subject: How do YOU use cottage cheese in lasagne?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Feed the cottage cheese to the dog and purchase ricotta


This.


Or, make lasagna with a bechamel as God intended.


God intended fFranco-Italian food? Interesting . . .
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2022 17:03     Subject: How do YOU use cottage cheese in lasagne?
Anonymous wrote:Feed the cottage cheese to the dog and purchase ricotta


Can you read? Do you feel super cool and hope that you were sufficiently insulting to the stranger asking for help? Because you definitely are really cool.