I had extra strawberries left over from 14-22: Strawberry-Peach Cobbler, so I tried to reuse them into 15-45: Strawberries with Cottage Cheese. Simply Delicious is big on using cottage cheese in an effort to be “low-fat” (all the rage in the 1980s when this book was published) and healthy, but they’re not usually very successful.
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Don’t be deceived by their pretty picture here. It’s not ice cream. It’s cottage cheese. Just keep that in mind going in.
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Do you think this was supposed to be maybe some sort of richer cheese (think ricotta or mascarpone) and they’re subbing cottage cheese instead to be “healthy”? I just can’t figure this out.
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Ingredients. Grand Marnier is orange-flavored and it is liqueur, so it works. I’ve never even used that bottle for anything but cooking, and I don’t even think it was originally mine.
I think those nuts might not be pistachios either–walnuts maybe?
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Straining the cottage cheese.
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Toasting the “pistachios”.
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Grating the orange peel.
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Juiced. đ
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Mixing the strained cottage cheese with the orange zest.
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Still looks like cottage cheese to me. I should have run these through the blender.
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Using the extra strawberries from 14-22: Strawberry-Peach Cobbler.
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Sliced strawberries.
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Final plate. It was weird, and I wouldn’t suggest it. Leave this one in the past. Yet another swing and a miss for cottage cheese as interpreted by Simply Delicious.
Grade: C-