"Ice Cream" from cottage cheese
I just tried this recently and it actually tasted good.
Start with 8oz cottage cheese (I used 1% fat kind) and warm until all of the curds melt, I did this in a teflon coated frying pan on the stove with medium heat stirring the entire time (this took about 5 minutes) but I would think that you could microwave it but haven't tried it yet this way.
Pour the melted mixed cottage cheese into a bowl and add a little artificial vanilla flavoring as well as (here's the worst part) about 8 packets of equal sweetener.
Put in freezer, allow to freeze, and then you have "ice cream"
It's really good if you have had a very strict diet and are dying for a sweet treat.
REVISED "Ice Cream" from 1% cottage cheese
OK this is the one, a winner, the real deal and I'm telling you to try it (if you don't like plain old cottage cheese as I can't stand to eat it that way).
So take 1 cup 1% cottage cheese and put it in a blender and well blend it.
While blending add 1 tsp artificial vanilla flavoring (I prefer artificial flavoring over true vanilla extract because the real stuff contains corn syrup)
Also while blending add 8 packets of equal.
This blending process will take about 4-5 minutes to do correctly but it's ready when there are no longer curds and it looks fluffy in the blender. You may need to agitate or pulse the blender as it will probably create an air pocket by the blades that will slow the process.
At this point you have something that is the consistency of fluffy yogurt. You can eat it now (and it tastes great) but I'm going to try to freeze it to see if it turns out like ice cream. I'll post later tonight to let you know how it is frozen.
(The only reason I heated it previously was to melt and blend the curds, this way is soooo much better and easier)
To freeze or not to freeze
So I tried this 3 ways, (1) refrigerated (2) half frozen, I let it freeze so that the outer part of the container was frozen, the inner part was still soft, I then stirred together, giving the consistency of soft serve ice cream (3) frozen rock hard. I didn't like it completely frozen that much, the "soft serve" was pretty good, but my favorite was the refrigerated version. My girlfriend tried it that way (refrigerated) and she really liked it. So in hindsight maybe I should have titled the thread "High protein low carb yogurt substitute" or "High protein low carb fruit dip" It was a work in progress, give it a try, it taste great! (blender method)