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                                            Prep Time: 15 Minutes Cook Time: 0 Minutes  | 
                                            Ready In: 15 Minutes Servings: 6  | 
                                         
                                        
                                     
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                    An easy, quick salad or starter/appetizer. From the Mississippi Valley chapter of the United States Regional Cookbook, Culinary Arts Institute of Chicago, 1947. Ingredients: 
                    
                        
                                                8 ounces cottage cheese or 8 ounces ricotta cheese  |  
                                                salt and pepper, to taste  |  
                                                1 teaspoon minced chives (fresh is best, more to taste)  |  
                                                2 heads endive  |  
                                                paprika  |  
                                                8 stuffed green olives (more or less, to your preference)  |  
                                                oil-and-vinegar dressing (we prefer french dressing (not catalina style))  |  
                                                
                     
                    Directions: 
                    
                        
                            
                                1. Season cottage cheese with salt, pepper and chives. 2. Clean endive and pull leaves off; dip tips into paprika. 3. Fill leaves with cottage cheese and arrange in a petal fashion on a round plate; fill center of the  flower  with olives. 4. Serve with dressing.                              | 
                         
                         
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