One dairy product that hasn’t reached the artisanal crowd at farmers’ markets is local organic cottage cheese. That you can rarely find it might be reason enough. For a while Lauren Pignatello of Swallowtail Farm and Creamery used to offer her farm-made cottage cheese. I loved it for its marvelously creamy texture and its inimitable tang and sweetness from cultured raw milk. I would buy it at the farmer’s market each week along with Swallowtail’s prized Greek Yogurt. I didn’t use the curds for anything fancy as in baking or other dishes but rather found it a great snack, swiping a spoonful or two when the mood struck to relish the purity of flavor that this simple curd cheese displayed. It’s also not very fattening and has loads of protein and calcium making it the ideal food for healthy eating.
Hood Dairy’s Original Cottage Cheese
Alas she stopped making it. “Too much trouble, not enough time (or money in it).”
