Egg Salad with Cottage Cheese

Cottage cheese gives a classic egg salad a little something extra. The fresh herbs lend a welcome springy punch.

I sat in front of the television with my husband as he flipped through channels recently. He stopped when colorful pocket knives appeared on the screen, prompting the comment, “They’re still around–how many knives can they sell?” We’ve been in this very situation before, channel surfing and landing on a home shopping program, wooed by the assortment of knives (with no intention to buy), pausing the surfing for a few minutes, beguiled by the calm, friendly voice of the gentleman trying to convince us that we need to own a set of three pocket knives. My husband attests that they are quite useful but he prefers a utilitarian over decorative design. I don’t know if this is the same gentleman whose voice we’ve heard the past twenty years but it was nice to run across the soothing, friendly sound again.

I read once that the interview process to be a host for a home shopping program involved being given a simple object–a pencil or an eraser for example–to see how effectively the candidate can sell it to an audience. Which brings me to today’s recipe.

This egg salad had been at risk of languishing in my drafts folder because I didn’t know how to present it. The recipe isn’t new or exciting or exotic. I don’t prepare egg salads very often but when I have one I’m reminded how much I like it. Not giving it much thought, I default to a classic preparation with mayonnaise, mustard, relish, celery and onion.

Until recently. A tub of cottage cheese made it into my shopping cart though I had no idea what its end use would be. It turned out to be this egg salad, my old-fashioned egg salad made over with cottage cheese and a healthy dose of fresh herbs. The cottage cheese added substance while the herbs gave it a springy punch. A classic with a little something extra…or an old-fashioned salad with just a little oomph. This egg salad with cottage cheese could be the star of your next potluck gathering.

How am I doing? Do I have what it takes to sell on television? Or even just this egg salad?

No? Well, I would agree. Even the new SEO rating feature that’s recently appeared on my WordPress dashboard is giving this post a C+ rating so there seems to be a consensus.

But it’s okay. We’ve enjoyed this egg salad several times over the past few weeks and I dare say that revamping my classic recipe was a good decision..even if I lack the charm of the shopping network’s knife guy.