Recipes: What to do with sour cream

Something is wrong with me this week. Either I am way to busy or I am losing my mind. Twice in the last four days, I have tried to buy cottage cheese (so good with pepper!) and ended up with something completely different. The first mistake was a little more understandable. I didn’t realize that Safeway organic cottage cheese was a horrible, disgusting, not-even close approximation to the non-organic versions.

The second mistake was caused by the packaging of sour cream and cottage cheese being identical. I bought a huge container of what I thought was cottage cheese last night and didn’t realize it was sour cream until I dug in my fork. Darn it! What am I going to do with all this sour cream? Here are some ideas:

• Black bean and turkey tacos – It’s on the menu for tonight’s post-kickball dinner. This is approximately where I run out of ideas for using sour cream and start looking online
• Sour cream and lemon poundcake – That sounds pretty tasty. Maybe with some fresh strawberries.
• Roasted squash, red pepper and jack cheese quesadillas with chipotle lime sour cream – Overkill? You bet! But it is Cinco de May after all.
• Blini with sour cream and caviar – Heaven forbid that I throw out the sour cream. I’ll just have to buy some caviar instead.

Maybe this cottage cheese incident wasn’t so disastrous after all! Share your own sour cream recommendations in the comments section below.