When I was young, I sprinkled bits of bacon into the cottage cheese. It wasn't real bacon, but made from soy beans, and it came in a jar and was intended to garnish salads. The crunchy bacon taste combined with the cottage cheese was great. If that product is no longer made, then use vegetarian bacon that you cook yourself.

Currently, I like to chop sweet pickle into my cottage cheese.

Or chopped fresh tomato and green onions.

Sometimes I add sliced radishes to the above.

And I've added pine nuts and sunflower seeds.

Darcy