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Originally Posted by Pawnmower

i dont like ricotta personally

i like cottage cheese much better, maybe you should try 1/2 and 1/2

Id rather do a mix of cottage cheese and something else than ricotta - like shredded jack/moz

seriously ricotta sucks...try a mixture of cottage cheese and shredded colby instead of ricotta next lasagna

you wont be sorry


* see even YOU admit you have to 'whip in egg and moz & parm' to make ricotta taste good....! try cottage some time., or a mix of cottage and colby..plus its a bit healthier as well

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.