You may have seen a recipe making the rounds of Facebook for a Cottage Cheese Blueberry Bake. It looked somewhat intriguing, so I decided to try it. I used this recipe.
Here's what it looks like.
The primary ingredients are cottage cheese, eggs, blueberries and oatmeal, flavored with cinnamon, honey or maple syrup and a little vanilla. Sounded pretty good. Sweet things are still tasting wrong to me, so I cut the honey in half. Taste is OK... nothing wonderful.
The real problem in my mind is the texture. It's very rubbery. That's a deal breaker in my book, coupled with the fact that I'd rather just eat the cottage cheese with some blueberries or cook the eggs, or make some oatmeal and add the fruit to it. A lot less fuss, no messing with the oven and dirtying multiple dishes.
On the plus side, it holds together well, and can be eaten hot or cold or reheated. So if you wanted to bake a week's worth of to-go breakfasts to take to work, they could be packaged up and grabbed from the fridge each day. Other kinds of berries can be substituted, or chopped apple. And if one used gluten-free oats, it would be safe for people with that issue to eat.
However, I'll pass on making it again.
I wish I had grabbed this graphic when I saw it today. Maybe I'll see it again. It was a typical British farm family menu for a week in 1912. Pretty bleak. A lot of bread and butter, suet pudding, one roast of meat. Tea, cocoa, and milk to drink. I was surprised at the lack of eggs or foods that could have been gathered and prepared like jams or home canned/dried vegetables. Perhaps the wild foods were much more available on our side of the pond.
I slept almost none last night, but felt pretty good today anyway. I managed over 2 hours of work screen time, but I think I've had enough now.
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