Whether you’re a cook, a baker or a professional snacker, you know how versatile cottage cheese is. This protein-rich food can be packed into pancakes, baked into vintage biscuits and even churned into cottage cheese ice cream. Bottom Line: While Trader Joe’s is quite reliable everywhere else, its cottage cheese missed the mark pretty hard for me. Prairie Farms Emiko Franzen For Taste Of Home Much like its Great Value brethren, I found the Prairie Farms cottage cheese to have a standard cottage cheese taste. It has a classic cottage cheese taste with a bright pop of tangy tartness.