Cottage cheese + Neufchatel cheese
Cottage cheese and neufchatel cheese are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.32) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.26). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "Processed convenience pantry products" mode.
What do these scores mean?
Cooks-with (technical name: Cooc) measures how often the two ingredients appear in the same dish across 4M recipes. Tastes-like (Chem) measures how much aroma chemistry they share via FlavorDB. Blended (Core) combines both. All are cosine similarities in 300-D space — practical ranges differ per axis, so see the per-row context to read them.
Ingredients that go well with both cottage cheese and neufchatel cheese — candidates for completing the dish.
How this is ranked
Each candidate scores against both ingredients in the recipe co-occurrence embedding. We sort by the worse of the two scores, so the result fits the weaker partner — not just one of them.
Clusters that contain both ingredients — click through to see everything in the mode.
- Cooks withProcessed convenience pantry products
- Cooks withSweet fruits, liqueurs and dessert flavors
- Cooks withSpirits liqueurs and creamy dessert bases
- Cooks withAged and semi-firm savory cheeses
- Cooks withBitter Mediterranean herbs and pungent spices
- Cooks withEuropean artisan cheeses
- Cooks withSweet confections and dessert ingredients
- BlendedMediterranean aged cheeses and mushrooms