Cheese recipe collection

Open-faced strawberry cream cheese sandwiches with lemon zest and chopped nuts. A fresh, no-cook spread for tea sandwiches, crackers, or light snacking.

Orange Jello salad with just cottage cheese and whipped topping. No boiling, no setting, no cooking at all. Dry Jello powder dissolves straight into the cottage cheese for a fluffy potluck side.

Chocolate Halloween cupcakes with a hidden orange cream cheese center that oozes out when bitten. Spooky fun for the kids and a riff on the classic Black Bottom cupcake.

Creamy, nutty and chocolaty cake, everyone loves it!

Paradise salad: a molded lemon Jello salad with sour cream, cottage cheese, and crushed pineapple. A retro gelatin dessert-salad that chills into a creamy, tangy mold.

Creamy salmon pasta with melted Fontina cheese and heavy cream. A simple three-ingredient Italian sauce tossed with hot pasta for a quick, rich dinner for two.

One-pot egg noodles cooked in golden onion soup broth and tossed with garlic bread crumbs, parsley, and parmesan. A pantry-friendly Italian-style pasta ready in 30 minutes.

Chicken and broccoli pasta with garlic, white wine, and chicken broth tossed with bow-tie pasta. A quick one-skillet weeknight dinner ready in 30 minutes.

Pasta with chicken, tomato, and Romano cheese ready in 40 minutes. Spaghetti tossed with chicken strips, fresh tomatoes, olives, green pepper, and broth reduced into a light savory sauce.

No-tomato pasta with Italian sausage, spaghetti squash, mushrooms, and fennel, finished with an egg stirred in carbonara-style. A lighter, brothy pasta dinner with hidden vegetables.

Halloween Penicillin Pizza: English muffin pizzas topped with green-dyed Parmesan that looks like mold. A fun, spooky kid-friendly party snack ready in 20 minutes.

Light Pennsylvania Dutch cheesecake with low-fat cottage cheese and beaten egg whites for cloudlike texture. Sinks in the middle to cradle fresh berries or peaches.

Sloppy Joe-style pizza burgers with ground beef, pepperoni, pizza sauce, mozzarella, and mushrooms on toasted buns. All the flavors of pizza in a handheld meal.

Pineapple cream cheese pizza on bread dough with a sweet cream cheese and crushed pineapple filling, strawberry jam, and toasted almonds. A dessert pizza kids and adults love.

Pineapple-walnut dip: creamed cottage cheese and sour cream blended with crushed pineapple, toasted walnuts, and lemon. A versatile sweet-savory dip for fruit, cookies, or chicken.

Dessert pizza topped with homemade pistachio custard cream and fresh fruit. A from-scratch pistachio milk custard spread over a baked pizza shell.