1 day Ago By Michele Stueven
As TikTok can attest, cottage cheese is finding its way into more sweet and savory recipes than ever before. Ree Drummond replaces whipped cream with creamed cottage cheese as a light swap in her recipe for whipped cottage cheese with roasted berries on the Food Network, and it’s long been an economic option for lasagna. But have you ever had hot honey broiled pineapple bruschetta with cottage cheese or chocolate chip cookie dough bites made with those salty curds?A colorful brunch mezze table of roasted cherry tomato and whipped Knudsen cottage cheese flatbread, savory bowls, and cottage cheese chia cups with fruit adorned the kitchen of The Gourmandise School in Santa Monica during a cooking demonstration this week by actress Lizzy Mathis, the founder and editor-in-chief of The Cool Mom Co.
Mathis was joined in the kitchen by daughters Nyla and Nimah Rahman, cooking up two recipes for Mother’s Day: roasted red pepper, mushroom, and spinach frittata with herb-whipped cottage cheese topping, and French toast with sour cream, both made from the California-based Knudsen dairy that has been churning out curds for decades.Frittatas and French toast from left with Nyla and Nimah Rahman and Lizzy Mathis (Michele Stueven)“My mom used to eat cottage cheese on a savory note,” Mathis told LA Weekly as she mixed the curds directly into the beaten eggs for the frittata. “She’d made it as a snack, mixed with cucumber, tomatoes, fresh herbs, and her favorite lemon pepper seasoning.
I’m the third one, baby of the family, and I would always take nibbles of whatever she ate. My kids do the same thing. I just have these great memories of those special personal moments of connection with my mom, and it became my favorite go-to snack as an adult.
”Its many uses across sweet and savory, economical and caloric lines are a big reason for its surge in popularity, as well as being a quick fix for extra protein in the diet, especially when adding it to eggs, without eating more meat.“I was raised by a single mom with three kids in Detroit and watched her stretch meals, often using cottage cheese,” Mathis said. “You can mix it into so many different things for a good meal.
Simple moments turn into memorable ones.She shared her Mother’s Day recipe with us: The post Lizzy Mathis Tells Us Why Cottage Cheese Is Having A Moment appeared first on LA Weekly..
