I have a nasty habit. If I eat lasagna at someone's house and it has cottage cheese in it, it ends up on the ceiling.

Cottage cheese in lasagna is just sick and wrong.

Cottage cheese is a better ceiling popcorn than lasagna filling.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Ricotta is gross?


That's like saying Alex Smith will throw a 14 yard completion Sunday. Just dumb

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.

list 10 well known cheeses that Ricotta tastes better than


seriously go to the deli and taste a shitload of cheeses

ricotta is nast

I use part-skim. Adding egg and two other cheeses isn't because ricotta doesn't taste good alone. Lasagne is just a rich dish made like that. To me, that's like saying, adding butter and milk to mash potatoes means potatoes taste bad or even adding butter and sour cream to a plain potato. Or adding meat and sausages to tomato sauce is because tomato sauce alone isn't good. It is. It's just different with meat. Ricotta is a whey protein, whereas your cottage cheese is casein protein. It's uses in many other dishes such as desserts like cheesecake, cannoli and even cookies.

I think it's a more authentic lasagne without cottage cheese. Just how I grew up with it in an Italian family.

oh its more authentic...I am not arguing that...

I read an interesting recipe today

instead of ricotta.............................




(wait for it)







CREAM CHEESE



I might try it soon, will report back but here:


http://www.aspicyperspective.com/201...a-sausage.html



(On most things I strive for authentic...but ricotta is nasty to me for some reason, so Ive been looking for alternatives since LASAGNA is not optional. Lasagna is life.)

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.

My mom started making lasagna in the 1960's before ricotta cheese was widely available, so she used a recipe that called for cottage cheese. I grew up with that lasagna, and when I started making it I followed her recipe, because that's what I was used to. Of course I have known about ricotta for a couple decades now, and have taken to calling my recipe "Protestant lasagna".

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.

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

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

thats correct

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

Going to try...

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

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

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.

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

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.

I've worn lasagna out and the family doesn't seem to care for ricotta cheese. I did have some amazing cheese ravioli at a pot luck, with what tasted like a pizza sauce. I'm going to try a rendition of that.

I guess its typical layering probably mixed with egg and different cheeses. I really dont know other than it was just a bit different texture. I love all lazagna other than the box microwave junk.

In our protestant lasagna, we layer 1) noodles, 2) Parmesan, 3) Meat sauce, 4) cottage cheese, and 5) mozzarella cheese.

The cottage cheese is kind of dotted sporadically over the surface, while all of the other layered ingredients are spread uniformly.

I had to eat out again. Up all night had deadlines and barely ate all day. I had fish and chips without the chips but with these awesome green beans, cole slaw and order a side salad. I went to that place I went last Saturday when I had the shrimp and grits.

When I got home I had one of my reindeer cookies and I got a pic of that for y'all.

Okay, I went and watched a video of someone making a lasagne with béchamel. Gotta admit it looked good, a creamy kind of lasagne more. It was just BHG, but theirs had a ricotta layer that was topped with the béchamel.

I think I got used to my moussaka only having it, but this does look worth a try.

Protestant lasagne? That's a good one! :D

ROFL

It's lasagne that has cellulite.

I gotta buncha bullshit here... some leftover pasta, cheddar cheese, a few mixed vegetables, chopped onion, ground beef and potato chips for crunch.

You fools have no idea how good this is...

You're like a ****ing hog at a trough.

Oh, that sounds like one of my skillet meals where I toss everything in that pan, using up leftover veggies, ground beef and the chips sound just fine. Sometimes I use rice, sometimes pasta whatever I'm trying to finish off. I use chips and bread crumbs on top of some casseroles. So that's a tasty and satisfying meal. Love that meal for weeknights. Quick and easy too.

I WILL SLIT YOUR THROAT LIKE A HOG AT A BLOOD TROUGH!!!

Meh, I do better... but I'm also a ****ing NAZI about leftovers, nothing I hate worse than wasted food... I'll recreate that shit into SOMETHING halfway palatable before its thrown away.

Food waste pisses me off... use everything you can without being a gross asshole about it like some dude from "Extreme Cheapskates".

Yup, every one of us with a good Mom learned this skill.

For me the 4 keys to great lasagna

Fresh crushed tomatoes simmered with garlic, onion red wine and olive oil
Good crumbly Italian sausage, preferably with fennel.
Quality dry ricotta with fresh basil folded in.
Mozzarella that browns well and has a good chew when melted.

This is what turns my family off on lasagna, the taste and texture of dry ricotta.

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I made mushroom risotto with scallops.

One of my best dishes.

That looks fantastic. What is the sauce?

Simple and delicious oyster sauce. Recipe was VERY inexpensive.

Dude. That looks outstanding.

Thanks man.

Looks great

Keep it up

What's for dinner? Here's mine... (Part 2)
 

It's "Italiano" because it's "autentico"!!!

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:p

Oh man, awesome.Please post recipe. Begging you for it. :grovel::grovel::grovel::grovel:!

Oh, and I ah, like the square white plate too. White makes the food the center of attention cause it stands out more.

I don't make it much myself. I refused to eat it for years after leaving home. Actually, any pasta tomato type dish because my mom OD the Italian for my dad.

http://youtu.be/TYmDpxY9_hM


I followed her recipe. I didn't use white wine and it still turned out awesome. I also couldn't find dried mushrooms, so I just put baby bellas in beef broth and simmered. It was really good man.

Season scallops with salt and pepper, medium high heat with evoo and butter. Use oyster sauce (my idea, so **** her) for a beautiful presentation. Really compliments the scallops.

Chocolate chocolate chip oreo cheesecake mousse cake :):):)

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lol@ the 'magic' cards.

^ and he wonders why he's single

Picked up a hasty bake grill for myself for xmas, gonna break it in with some home grown grass fed ribeyes from the grandparents tonight.

Anyone have any experience with a hasty bake?

Never heard of hasty bake, and never had grass-fed ribeye but it sounds good and healthy.

Did you make that yourself, as in from scratch?

Everything about it looks great, except that spiral on top looks like a dog turd.
Sorry, it's just what it reminds me of. :evil:

I'm new to the grass fed thing, grandparents give all the grandkids a butchered cow for Christmas every year however we want it divided meat wise.

They tried a solely grass fed style this year with mine and a cousins. We shall see

WOW!!! That is pretty God damn impressive. I hope it tasted as good as it looks. :thumb:

And Claynus gives another thread AIDS.

Why did you take a shit on top of such a beautiful piece of cake? :rolleyes:

the **** dude

that cake was delicious

Yep.

Went Christmas shopping then stopped off on the way home for Chinese food. Now I'm crazy thirsty and I'm sure I'll be hungry in a hour.

Smokin' Guns BBQ tonight. And no, I didn't save any of it for anyone.

Who's the best in KC right now? I know Joe's was the shit for a while, but I never paid much attention to the 3rd wavers.

He's entertaining. Not a bad thing.

THAT CAKE

IS DELICIOUS

AND A WONDER TO BEHOLD

I DESERVE NO CRITICISM FOR POSTING IT

Good question. I don't get out often enough for Que to give you a thorough answer. There is a new joint down by Westport called 39Q that is supposedly pretty damn yummy. It's on the list to try....

That's the best part; doing the research.:thumb:

Today I'm trying an oven fried chicken recipe.

Eating crow as I thought the Chiefs would lose. YUMMY!

Adobo seasoned chicken with peppers & onions.

Strip steak, baked potato with sour cream, chives and bacon bits, sauteed spinach and a salad.

Slap some ketchup on that bad boy

'Round these parts I think we've replaced ketchup with "throw some GoldFish" in it"!

Now you're speaking language

Steak night. Wife's throwing some NY strips in the sous vide this afternoon for a quick sear this evening. Will make some green beans amandine and mushrooms as sides.

I'm gonna try a new Indian place today. I'll post shitty pics later!

Do they serve your poverty chicken?