Recently in a brief moment of delusional grocery shopping when I thought that I might like something that I used to eat all the time as a kid, albeit drenched in French dressing, I bought some cottage cheese. Gross, right? I know. I hate milk and I thought I might get some more calcium and protein by eating the stuff and if I liked it as a 5 year old, then why not as a 25 year old.
Not so much. I tried eating it tonight, plain, and it wasn't going over well. Then I nuked a potato and tried to tell myself that it would be just like my usual spud topping of tons of melted butter, salt, pepper, and Parmesan. Also not so much.
So then I decided to Google "cottage cheese recipes" since I didn't want the stuff to go to waste. I mean, I am sure there have been plenty of things I have eaten that had a not so yummy ingredient hidden inside. I could surely find something to use up this gross goo (although I still haven't tried it again with French dressing, but I can't rationalize buying bright orange sauce for one experimental snack).
After a few pages of recipes, I came up with this one here. Intrigued with the concept of cottage cheese in a baked good, and scoffing at the odds that I actually had just enough of every ingredient needed (oh yeah, I also have a pound of frozen cranberries from last Thanksgiving when I made like 4 quarts of a tasty but expensive Cranberry-Pomegranate-Tequila Sauce that I have been trying to use), I set to work.
I mixed things up rather quickly, after unearthing my silicone muffin mold from the bottom of my dusty cabinet and chatted with my neighbor through the kitchen window. I felt like it could actually be pretty tasty, and if not I wasn't going to cry over the loss of the cottage cheese or the cranberries.
After the first batch cooled, I bit into one hoping that it would at least be edible. It wasn't half bad! A little dried out (they don't brown at all so it wasn't that easy to tell when they were done), but okay. Then I got a whiff or a bite of something a little weird. I couldn't put a finger on it, but it was almost a musty bitterness. It was fleeting, and since I am not planning on giving these muffins to anyone else, I didn't care.
The next batch was ready soon after, so I tried one again. Round two seemed even better. But there was that strange odor/taste again.
I thought about it for a while, and then it hit me like a ton of bricks - my old cranberries were giving off the essence of a flipping Lambic beer.
Do you think anyone has ever compared any baked good to such a thing? Doubtful. Really freaking doubtful. I don't know what is wrong with me :)
2 comments:
Hey,
You can always use cttage cheese like ricota and use in lasagna or manicotta. Just press out some of the extra liquid before using. I use it as a lower fat alternative, for the family members that are counting calories. But if your trying to increase calcium and like orange juice, go for the + calcium.
Haha, thanks buddy! That's a good idea. But what are you doing reading my blog and talking about cottage cheese at 6:45 in the morning, crazy! ;)
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