ideas for cottage cheese?

I tend to prefer my cottage cheese savory, rather than sweet. I often just eat it by itself, possibly with a little fresh ground pepper, or a garlic-herb spice blend. Sometimes I'll toss in some sliced cucumbers (either fresh cukes or cukes that have been in a vinegar/water solution for a few days) -- dill is good with that combination, or black pepper.

I sometimes mix it with tomato/marinara sauce on pasta (I started it as a way to get my fix when craving something like manicotti or lasagna, with the cottage cheese standing in for ricotta, and no baking required).

Recently I mixed a good bit of buffalo-flavor Tabasco sauce with my cottage cheese and dipped celery in it, and I really liked it -- you could add blue cheese if you like it. And your favorite faux chicken if you want.

Or toss it in a salad (better with a sturdy, crisp leaf like romaine or iceberg) with your favorite beans and crunchy veggies.

If you like "mix-ins" for your cottage cheese, you might try nuts (pistachios or cashews would be good) or seeds (e.g., sunflower, pumpkin, chia). Or it might be a good place to try PB2 (or whatever brand of defatted peanut meal you prefer).

I can't stand cottage cheese unless it is in lasagna - my mom always made it that way subbing the cottage cheese for ricotta. It gives it a much saucier texture...

I do it with either 30 g. (I weigh all my food ) of sunflower seeds or salsa. I usually have this as my before bed, hi-protein snack. If I have the calories left in my day, I may chop a few black olives in with the salsa. YUM!

I put it on pasta, or mix it into salad. I adore eating it on potato chips, but potato chips are no longer something that is in the house with any regularity! That's vacation food for me.

When I make lasagna, I use half cottage cheese and half ricotta for the cheese filling. So I still get the yummy, delicate ricotta flavor with the more pleasant texture of some cottage cheese. Plus cottage cheese costs less.

Mixed into lasagna is great- mixed into many Italian dishes is cool.

I like mine with peaches. MIT I have a salad, I often have cottage cheese with it. I eat plain a lot, though.

Stir one sachet of lo-cal jelly crystals into 500gms lo-fat cottage cheese. Good desert or cheesecake filling.

Or stir in thousand island dressing and sweet chilli dressing for a dip.

This page has a lot of great ideas and has helped me: http://www.stumptuous.com/the-cottage-cheese-page

I'm also totally obsessed with this casserole right now: http://whatscookinwithmary.blogspot.ca/2012/09/moms-spinach-casserole.html

I make it with one cup (uncooked) rice. Divided into 6 portions, it's 24 grams of protein and ~370 calories per portion.

layer it in your lasagna

Eat it plain with soy sauce

Put it in your pancake or muffin batter

Put it in your omelet

cottage cheese, a little vanilla extract, cinnamon, a few dried cranraisins, and a chopped apple