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What's for dinner? Here's mine... (Part 2) (https://chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=285408)

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Originally Posted by BucEyedPea (Post 11183464)

Have you ever had authentic Italian ricotta, or do you just buy supermarket ricotta?

Ricotta is just a different cheese and the other cheeses taste fine too.

Okay, so you don't like it but it's still heresy using cottage cheese in lasagne to me. Each to his own.

I get the tradition...

ANd I have access to some of the best cheeses in the world...I live in an area renown for Dairies and cheeses...

My philosophy is this:

It was "tradition" to scramble eggs with cheddar....

One day I tried dill havarti...HOLY SHIT that was good

Mac ANd cheese normally cheddar as well with a bechamel type sauce....

One day...I tried SMOKED GOUDA

O M G

I just believe in tradition to a POINT and I started thinking....hey...ricotta is kind of MEH as a cheese and there are so many other options.....

SO for me I find a really fresh large curd cottage cheese with salt and pepper tatses pretty darn good, better (to me) than ricotta........so I tired it...

I like it better...besides.....

Heres the thing...the recipe I gave was supposed to be an EASY recipe for kids and wifey

hence why I mentioned no-boil noodles.

NO WHERE did I say it was the best or most authentic. My kid loves cottage cheese and we keep it in the house 24/7. We dont normally have ricotta.

I was merely suggesting an easy recipe, that also tatses good. Imo , Id rather use shredded pizza cheeze and jack than ricotta.

But w/e.

I was only trying to give whoever that was a VERY easy recipe involving common items around the house.

Side note

Even better yet is Oaxaccan (sp?) string cheese

holy shit if you have a mexican store and can get the REAL stuff they sell in knots where it peels off like string cheese...

Thats some of the best lasagna cheese made by man...or for any other melty purposes...

http://pics.mexgrocer.com/images/91155-13801.jpg

Guess, I'm just not crazy about cottage cheese. To me it's diet food. Lasagne is not diet food.

I have had plenty of lasagna made with cottage cheese but I prefer the ricotta. But don't get me wrong I wont push the plate away and have a hissy fit because of the cheese used. I will wolf it down and be happy to have it. Its lasagna for crying out loud its good either way.

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Originally Posted by BucEyedPea (Post 11183553)

Guess, I'm just not crazy about cottage cheese. To me it's diet food. Lasagne is not diet food.

you could do the same mix that you said you did

(ricotta, mozerlla, egg + parm)

you could sub out the ricotta and put in the cottage cheese and a little salt and pepper and you probably couldnt taste all that much difference

I like to do a mixture like yours but with a little sharper cheeses too or maybe a bit of smoked cheddar...

really the difference we are talking about is minimal.....I just dont like ricotta on its own, so i never have it around...cottage cheese we eat a bunch of

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Originally Posted by BucEyedPea (Post 11183553)

Guess, I'm just not crazy about cottage cheese. To me it's diet food. Lasagne is not diet food.

yes if your goal in cooking is max calories I think whole curd cottage cheese has less calories than ricotta

thats correct

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Originally Posted by BucEyedPea (Post 11181870)

Cottage cheese in lasagne—eeeeeeeoooooooooooowwwww!

It's just as easy to toss in some ricotta. Just whip in an egg and some mozzarella and parm.

Mean post. You = bitchy for that move.. Sorry....

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Originally Posted by Pawnmower (Post 11181869)

for quick and easy you can do a no-boil lasagna.....just whip up some good meat sauce

(or simmer 2 jars of your favorite sauce with like 1 pound of meat, 1 pound of mild italian sausage , and a bunch of diced mushrooms and onions)

layer the noodles 'raw' alternating with sauce..followed by more noodles, but throw in some cottage cheese in each layer, with salt and pepper sprinkd up on that bitch

and put a thin layer of sauce on top.

bake that shit like 350 for 70-90 minutes till that shit bubbles and turns all golden and brown or read the box

when it comes out, sprinkle the **** out of it with mixed shredded white & orange cheese

and let that bitch rest a while

serve with salad for mom and dad

protip
during the hour that shit is baking clean the kitchen up a lil bit
do the dishes
hit the floor with a mop
pour your woman some wine

YOU GON GET YO DICK SUCKED MY NINJA

I love Barilla 'oven ready' but any no-boil will do homey

http://media.us.barilla.com/sites/de...PB_ID109_0.png

Going to try...

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Originally Posted by BucEyedPea (Post 11183385)

I do the béchamel on top of Moussaka and I make a mean ass one too.

You'll never get me to do that on lasagne, even though I like béchamel. It's heresy to me.

Heresy? Everything I've ever read said béchamel is authentic/traditional for lasagna - more so than ricotta or cottage cheese. And it's delicious.

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Originally Posted by GloryDayz (Post 11183667)

Going to try...

The overall recipe is solid (save the cottage cheese :)), IMO.

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Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy! (Post 11183682)

Heresy? Everything I've ever read said béchamel is authentic/traditional for lasagna - more so than ricotta or cottage cheese. And it's delicious.

I've heard, and read ricotta is not used in Italy or parts of Italy. I've read it's more Italian-American. My family doesn't do it that way. So I am going by that as heresy.

Edit: to clarify "that way" as meaning using the béchamel.

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Originally Posted by GloryDayz (Post 11183665)

Mean post. You = bitchy for that move.. Sorry....

Yes it is, but it's how he has often addressed me. So I don't care since it's reciprocal. Not here mind you but before.

My wife has a lasagna she makes with Sour cream and cream cheese 50 50 mix.

It's pretty good

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Originally Posted by srvy (Post 11183563)

Now do the lasagnes with cottage cheese you've eaten had something added to it? I can't imagine eating it plain in a lasagne. It would just be bland.

You're all gonna kill me, but I like a veggie lasagne more.