You've seen the neat little drawings of the placenta -- your baby's life support system in utero -- but you'd... You've seen the neat little drawings of the placenta -- your baby's life support system in utero -- but you'd be right to realize that those diagrams don't look all that much like the real thing.ou've seen the neat little drawings of the placenta -- your baby's life support system in utero -- but you'd be right to realize that those diagrams don't look all that much like the real thing.
Besides being higher in calcium than cottage cheese, ricotta cheese is also lower in sodium, with 123 milligrams per 1/2 cup compared with 420 milligrams in a serving of cottage cheese. Use ricotta cheese as a substitute for cottage cheese in lasagna or spinach pie.
Today Iâm sharing an Italian cheesecake recipe made with cottage cheese and Greek yogurt instead of ricotta and cream cheese. Cottage cheese, when blended, makes a great substitute in most recipes calling for ricotta. It looks the same and has a bit more tang. Greek yogurt adds a nice creamy richness to the cheesecake making this recipe lighter in calories and lower in fat.