Cottage Cheese and Peaches – Barefeet in the Kitchen

Creamy cottage cheese topped with juicy, sweet peaches, plenty of fresh mint, and a drizzle of honey is about to become your new favorite thing. Please, please, please, can peach season last just a little longer?

Peaches with Cottage Cheese

The mint and the drizzle of honey are transformative here with the cottage cheese and peaches. I’m soooo hooked on mint, friends. I’ve been making extra trips to the grocery store just to make sure I don’t run out of mint. (That’s not a joke, my friends. I have a slight mint addiction going on here.)

And can we talk for just a quick moment about the awesomeness of local, small batch honey? I met Leah Latshaw at my gym a couple of years ago. Her family produces the Latshaw Apiaries honey that I’ve bought countless times in local shops and at the farmer’s market.

I love all of their whipped honey varieties, and Latshaw’s plain honey is truly the tastiest, most flavorful honey I’ve ever bought. If you’re near the Granville Farmer’s Market or any of the local shops where the honey is sold, I can’t recommend it highly enough. We love it.

Cottage Cheese with Peaches

I know that cottage cheese is having a whole moment and I’m here for some of it. That said, cottage cheese eaten as actual cottage cheese is forever going to be my favorite – now that it’s something I truly enjoy eating!

Cottage cheese on the internet right now reminds me of a few years ago, when cauliflower was being added to just about everything and substitutions were rampant in everything from rice to pizza to cheese dips and sauces.

Cottage cheese + sweet, juicy peaches + a sprinkle of fresh mint + a drizzle of honey = an absolutely fantastic and irresistible breakfast, snack, lunch, or dinner for this girl. Depending on my mood, I might pair it with something else, but often this is the whole meal, especially if I’m not super hungry. It just plain satisfies every time.

For what it’s worth, in my very humble opinion, all cottage cheese is not created the same. Try them out until you find one that works for you. My personal preference is full-fat (4%), small curd cottage cheese.

I’ve tried pretty much every name-brand cottage cheese and (strangely enough) I tend to like the store brands best. Kroger and Meijer happen to be two of my favorite store brands.

If you’re looking for a few more things that are actually worth the effort of making with cottage cheese, this berry swirled cheesecake ice cream with an extra boost of protein is a winner with my whole family. (And we’re firmly established ice cream snobs over here, so you can trust that it’s tasty!)

Cheesy scrambled eggs are an easy, protein-packed breakfast that our whole family enjoys. Loaded with extra cheese and spinach too, my boys have been requesting these “power eggs” and showing off their Popeye-inspired muscles since they were toddlers.

And yes, you’ll want to add mint to your berries and cottage cheese now, too.