What a day! For starters, I had cottage cheese for the first time ever:
It’s under the peaches, sorry. I got the whipped 1% kind and I thought it was okay. It’s not something I’d eat for pleasure, but I can suck it up for the protein. However, if anyone has suggestions for ways to make it taste better, I’m open. I kind of have a lot left.
Then I made this for dinner:
Recipe here.
And if that isn’t enough excitement, I also discovered that I am apparently unfit for travel to other countries. Remember a few weeks ago when I had my passport photo taken?
Well. Today I get a letter that says that my application has been delayed because “the identification I provided is not sufficient for passport purposes.” After calling and speaking with a nice man named Fred, I learned that there are “a thousand” reasons why they might consider a drivers’ license insufficient, and that I need to somehow find five things that either have my name, picture, and a date, or my name, signature and a date.
This is harder than it sounds. Fred told me that I could submit five signed credit card receipts, and I couldn’t even find that. Then I started thinking about how it was rather absurd that five credit card receipts were going to verify my identity, so I called back and learned that – yep – Fred was wrong.
So tomorrow, I have to go and make a photo copy of my yearbook, because apparently, that is acceptable. I will also be photo copying my gym membership contract, a signed receipt from when I took my computer for repairs at the Apple store, an application I submitted to rent this apartment nearly four years ago, and a freelance contract I managed to scrounge up from the depths of my junk drawer.
All of this, according to Fred, will “probably” prove that I am, in fact me. But it might not. Because he didn’t know. And neither did his supervisor. It’s quite the operation they are running there. I also have to send the addresses of all former residences, the names and addresses of every school I’ve ever attended, and my complete employment history, including the names and phone numbers of my supervisors.
So. I am fairly certain that the man who may or may not be named Jason who I think was my boss at Dairy Queen back in 1999 no longer works there. But I guess we’ll find out, won’t we?
I use the whipped cottage cheese like cream cheese and put in on bagels with some jelly, Its the only way I’ll eat it. I tried it with fruit the first time also and I just wasn’t a fan of it without the bagel
I quess carbs make everything better.
That dinner looks lovely! I am assuming that you got home okay, since you have not returned my calls. I guess I will forgive you, if the next time I see you, you will make me that dinner!!!
OK – almost every weekday at about 10:30 or 11am I get really hungry and here’s what I have: about a cup or more of cottage cheese, mixed with a T or 2 of vanilla yogurt, a sliced up banana, a handful of granola, a bunch of crumbled up pecans, and blueberries (if in season)… and/or sometimes a handful of dried cranberries. Yum!
forgot to give you my sympathy for your passport problems. xo
I like your mom’s cottage cheese idea. I used to eat it a lot until I had a bad experience with some warm cottage cheese. Ewww.
Once when someone stole my wallet at the TCBY on Franklin Ave. in Nutley, N.J. (give it back whoever you are) the only thing I could find with my name on it was my college diploma so I arrived at the NJ DMV with a giant diploma and was still rejected. Go figure. Anyway, maybe a diploma will get you a passport.
I think the BEST cottage cheese out there is actually the Lactaid brand cottage cheese. For some reason, it just tastes SO MUCH better and has a much better consistency than other kinds. I would recommend it to people who arent even lactose intolerant.
ew, that totally blows. i hope everything gets straightened out!
That is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. A yearbook? Wow. That’s just crazy. I don’t even have my senior yearbook anymore… haha. Hope you get this straightened out!
I combine cottage cheese, plain yogurt, honey, and then either peaches or pineapple. Mix it all up and it’s pretty good. I like it that way and in all my 31 years never liked cottage cheese until just recently when I tried it like that. Good luck on the passport!
Ugh passport issues are the WORST! Hope you get it all straightened out.
I like to eat the whipped cottage cheese with crackers (Kashi Honey Sesame are my fav) as a dip, or spread it on toasted bread…pretty much carbs pair well with it if you just aren’t diggin the fruit combo
cottage cheese for the first time ever?!? whoa.
and that dinner looks like something i could eat for weeks straight.
Wow, they sure are strict on passports aren’t they. That’s brutal. I hope you get it worked out.
As for the cottage cheese, I don’t have many ideas since I like to eat it plain, but if it gives you any motivation at all, I think it’s kind of an acquired taste. I used to HATE cottage cheese and wouldn’t touch it. Now I love it. It helped that I started eating the fat free stuff… just a thought.
cottage cheese + pumpkin + cinnamon + honey = swoon
You have to try the Breakstone’s 2% cottage cheese. It was recommended to me by a nutritionist and it’s really the yummiest I’ve ever had.
Try that kind before you decide cottage cheese is gross.
And really? You never had it before?
My daughter lives on the stuff.
I think I need to give cottage cheese a chance… I don’t know that I’ve ever had it either and it kind of grosses me out but I have a feeling I’d probably end up liking it. We’ll see.
Um that’s ABSURD about your passport!! are you sure these people are legit that are calling you?? that sounds really ridiculous…
hmm do you have your birth certificate? would that work?
You are not you.
I just found your blog and I love it! I just wanted to comment that I feel exactly the same about cottage cheese. I even tried the whipped kind because everyone said how much better it was, and it was slightly better, but still kinda made me gag.
Good luck with the passport situation!
i dont like cottage cheese with fruit, i like mine savory. i usually eat it with tomatoes and some salt and pepper.
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mmmm…I just found a love for cottage cheese after never trying it.
-mixed with cinnamon and a mashed up banana on top of kashi golean blueberry waffles.
-mixed with hot sauce, black beans, salsa, corn, avocade and eaten as a dip with corn chips.
-using it in calzones.
I love cottage cheese with a mashed ripe banana and peanut butter all mixed together. It is excellent.
Megan,
I was thinking it might be good on a bagel. Might have to try that this weekend.
Larissa,
I did so!
Mom,
Thanks for the recipe and the sympathy.
Hangrypants –
Oh god. Don’t tell me about it.
Patrizzle –
I will try it.
Melissa S. –
Me too! Thanks.
Rose -
I know. Mine is buried in the back of a closet somewhere, I have to find it.
Audrey –
It was better with the yogurt.
jenngirl –
I tried a little bit on a cracker and it was good. I used to dip wheat thins in cream cheese and it kind of reminded me of that.
alexa-
I get wigged out by foods easily.
Kristie -
I think you’re right. I like it a little more every time.
gretchen -
Sounds like a plan. Not a big pumpkin person, but I’ll give it a try.
Kristen -
No. The little curdy things scared me. I think Breakstone’s is the kind my mom gets.
Anne P -
Yep, I’m sure. I got a letter in the mail and I actually called them.
rhodeygirltests -
Yeah, I already had to give them my birth certificate. In fact, they have it right now. But thanks.
apollocreed –
I know. Are you nervous?
Laura –
Thanks! It’s growing on me. I haven’t had the unwhipped so I don’t really know if I’d like that.
Grounded -
That, I’m not sure about.
Meghan -
Oh! Calzones. Like instead of ricotta?? Can you heat it?
Allison –
That’s next.
I love cottage cheese but I even find some types that are disgusting. If there’s a glimmer of hope that you might like it one day, just keep trying different brands/curd size/fat content until you find one you like. This sounds gross, but I like to mix mine with applesauce. I’m slowly cutting out dairy and cottage cheese was one of the first things to go. I miss you cottage cheese.
Thanks for the mention(s); very useful, informative and comprehensive.