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The Cottage Cheese Craze: Your New Protein-Packed Lunch Hero

1/13/2025

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If there’s one ingredient that’s been quietly making a comeback in kitchens everywhere, it’s cottage cheese. Once considered a retro diet food, cottage cheese is now being celebrated as a versatile, nutrient-packed powerhouse—especially for those looking to boost their protein intake. Whether you’re meal-prepping, snacking, or building a balanced lunch, cottage cheese deserves a spot in your lineup.

Why Cottage Cheese?

Packed with high-quality protein, calcium, and essential nutrients like vitamin B12, cottage cheese is a superstar for anyone looking to fuel their body and stay full longer. One cup of low-fat cottage cheese packs around 28 grams of protein, making it an excellent addition to your midday meals without overloading on calories. Plus, it’s a blank canvas for flavors, so it works in both sweet and savory dishes!

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The perfect queso with a twist

11/4/2024

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We found the perfect new queso recipe for you to try and it has a secret ingredient... cottage cheese!
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Only three ingredients make this quick, easy, and delicious. The cottage cheese packs this queso full of protein, making it the perfect after school or afternoon snack to keep you full until supper.
If you haven't jumped on the cottage cheese train yet, now is the time. Cottage cheese is full of protein, vitamins and minerals making it a great healthy snack on it's own, but it's creamy, mild flavor makes it great for adding to some of your favorite recipes.

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Making Cottage cheese

1/2/2020

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Ever wonder about what it takes to make that container of cottage cheese you grab off the grocery store shelf? Maybe not, but I bet you'd be surprised to find out it takes 10-11 hours to turn a vat full of milk into your cottage cheese!

We usually start filling our cottage cheese vat around 2 AM. The pasteurized (but not homogenized!) milk that is pumped into the vat is what will eventually become the "curd" part of the finished product. It gets a few ingredients added to it, a little stir and then it sits for HOURS while we wait for the magic to happen.

Meanwhile, we begin working on the dressing, which is the liquid part of cottage cheese. Milk and cream in our raw room is mixed up, pasteurized, cooled and then stored in a tank until the time comes to mix it with the curd.  Then we head back to the curd vat...

And magically the curd has appeared! It is all one giant mat of cheese and needs to be cut with special cheese knives, to make the tiny curd pieces you find in your cottage cheese container. After we cut it then it has to be cooked, so we stir and cook, and stir and cook, and stir and cook for a couple more hours. Finally, we get to start draining the whey off the curd and eventually, we have a giant vat of cottage cheese curd that is ready to be mixed with the dressing. Dressing is added and then we package our finished product into the containers that you pick up at your local store!

Want to see the process in action? Come visit us and take a tour of our processing plant! We can't guarantee that you will get to see cottage cheese being made, but we process our products almost every day, Monday-Friday, so chances are pretty good you will be able to learn about how we make our non-homogenized milk, cheese curds, butter or ice cream. To set up a tour give us a call at (563)568-4950 or email at [email protected].



Looking for our non-homogenized cottage cheese near you? Check out these local stores. Don't see your store or town listed! Let us know where you would like to see our products and we will do our best to get them to you.

Waukon - WW Homestead Dairy Retail Store, Fareway Waukon, Quillins
Decorah Fareway - Decorah, IA
Timbe Ridge Country Market - Osceola, IA
Iowa Food Cooperative - Des Moines, IA
Steve's Country Meats - Genoa, WI
Moore Family Farm - Maquoketa, IA
Country View Dairy - Hawkeye, IA
HyVee Asbury - Dubuque, IA
Cresco Fareway - Cresco, IA
Udder Brothers Creamery - Boscobel, WI
By the Spoonful - McGregor, IA
Unionland Feed & Food Market - West Union, IA
Local Oven Bakery - Prairie du Chien, WI

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    WW Homestead Dairy Team

    We love cows, curds & ice cream!!!

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