587 cottage recipes

Simple European fruit cake with pastry crust topped with sliced apples or stoned plums. Bake until golden, then dust with sugar for a rustic dessert that highlights seasonal fruit.

A no-bake chocolate hazelnut cheesecake: a buttery cookie crumb base under a creamy, gelatin-set filling swirled with choc-hazelnut spread and cookie pieces, dusted with cocoa. No oven required, just chill and serve.

Layered noodle bake with wide egg noodles, crumbled Italian meatloaf, ricotta, and mozzarella in spaghetti sauce. A lasagna-style casserole using pantry staples.

Italian-American lasagne with layers of seasoned ground beef, ricotta-egg filling, mozzarella, and sliced hard-boiled eggs. A family recipe with a from-scratch tomato-basil meat sauce.

Layers of wine-braised lamb, silky eggplant, and creamy ricotta béchamel bake into this classic Greek casserole. Warming cinnamon and nutmeg make it unforgettable.

This is a great topping for yogurt or low fat cottage cheese.

Hearty lentil, rice, and barley soup with corn, evaporated milk, and sweet basil, topped with cottage cheese. A thick, creamy vegetarian grain soup with serious staying power.

Pimblett's shepherd's pie: ground beef (technically cottage pie) with thyme, sage, carrots, and Dijon under a nutmeg-scented mashed potato crown. A classic British pub pie baked bubbling golden.

Irish scallop pie with sweet sea scallops, mushrooms, and a sherry-laced cream sauce blanketed under golden mashed potatoes. A pubby seafood twist on cottage pie that bakes up bubbling and rich.

Traditional Slovak pirohy (pierogi) with a tender egg dough boiled and bathed in browned butter. Choose from cottage cheese, dill potato, or sweet-savory cabbage filling.

Food processor guacamole with mayonnaise for extra creaminess, onion, lemon, and crushed chilies. Pulsed to a chunky cottage-cheese texture in under 5 minutes.

Jamie's summer vegetable lasagna: asparagus, peas, and broad beans cooked with garlic, mint, and lemon, layered with cottage cheese and pasta sheets. A fresh, fast green lasagna for warm nights.

Prize winning shepherd's pie made with ground roast beef, mushrooms, red wine, and a splash of cognac. Slow-simmered filling under egg-washed mashed potatoes, baked golden. The cottage pie elevated.

Florentine lasagna layers savory Italian sausage meat sauce with a creamy spinach-ricotta filling and melted mozzarella. Hearty, cheesy, and built for Sunday dinner.

Randy Pollak's persimmon salad is a molded gelatin salad with orange Jello, hot grapefruit juice, and strained persimmon pulp. A vintage fruit salad served on lettuce with cottage cheese.

Stuffed manicotti with spinach and ricotta filling, sliced mushrooms, tomato sauce, and melted mozzarella. Plus an alternate ground beef filling for a heartier take.