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Freeze cottage and ricotta cheese mix?
« on: April 30, 2012, 08:37:46 am »
Hi
I have made a lasagna for dinner tonight but have heaps of the cheese mix left over. It is uncooked and has cottage cheese, ricotta cheese, parmesan, nutmeg and a small amount of milk. Can I freeze this? I can't think what else I would make with it.
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Re: Freeze cottage and ricotta cheese mix?
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2012, 08:58:22 am »
Not sure, sorry.
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Re: Freeze cottage and ricotta cheese mix?
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2012, 09:01:32 am »
What about a pasta or potato bake for another night soon to use up the cheese sauce?
Otherwise I guess if your not going to use it then would be worth trying to freeze it to see if it works ok.

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Re: Freeze cottage and ricotta cheese mix?
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2012, 01:03:50 pm »
Reading this I would say yes Kerryn.  I have frozen one or the other before (can't remember which one it was, ricotta I think) and as long as it is used in cooking (eg lasagne) it should be fine.

You could try Brazen's chicken & ricotta crepes using your mixture in place of the plain ricotta.

Then there is CC's stuffed pasta shells which could be adapted to use up your mixture. 

I do one similar to this but not the same  ;) by precooking large pasta shells for 3 mins, cool then drain. Fill with ricotta & cottage cheese mixed with cooked and well drained spinach.  Combine some vegie stock with tomato pasta sauce, pour 1/2 into the bottom of a large casserole dish, top with filled pasta, pour remaining sauce over the top and sprinkle with parmesan. Cook mod oven 1 hour. Serves 6 people if you use 30 large pasta shells. I can give you the correct quantities if you want to try this one.
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Re: Freeze cottage and ricotta cheese mix?
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2012, 07:14:43 pm »
Brilliant Judy. Also could use canalloni tubes. Once cooked you could then  freeze it successfully.

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Re: Freeze cottage and ricotta cheese mix?
« Reply #5 on: April 30, 2012, 08:34:57 pm »
KerrynN you can freeze the mixture or you can add some bacon,eggs and some spinch and make a  quiche
i don't need a recipe i'm italian

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Re: Freeze cottage and ricotta cheese mix?
« Reply #6 on: April 30, 2012, 10:07:53 pm »
I've frozen bechamel sauce before so it should be fine or make one of the dishes suggested. The quiche sounds yummy.

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Re: Freeze cottage and ricotta cheese mix?
« Reply #7 on: May 01, 2012, 12:11:07 am »
I have frozen something similar and reheated successfully. On one occasion I found that when reheated it seemed to want to curdle/split so I gave it a quick zap in the TMX and all was fine.

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Re: Freeze cottage and ricotta cheese mix?
« Reply #8 on: May 01, 2012, 07:22:52 am »
Thanks everyone! JD that dish sounds yummy too! I am completely snowed under with study and work and sick kids at the moment so will pop it in the freezer for a calmer time. Am relying heavily on the menu planning to eliminate one extra thing to have to think about each day, and I don't have the extra head space for figuring out anything else I could do with it first.
Thanks again!
Kerryn