You open the fridge and nothing inspires you: a half-finished container, spinach, a couple of eggs. Now what? Ricotta can ...

Ricotta is incredibly versatile, and you don't have to reserve it for lasagna. These creative alternatives show how ricotta excels in sweet and savory dishes.

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Cookbook author Samin Nosrat of “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat” fame dishes about how pasta water can help you make better-than-boxed mac and cheese in just 15 minutes.

I’VE BEEN teaching cooking classes for about a decade, and one of my favorites is cheesemaking. In the most basic class we start with the simplest cheese, ricotta. Seeing it come together for the ...

Ricotta is one of those dream ingredients that makes your food taste so much better. It's no wonder the Italians add it to so many of their famous dishes. It enriches pasta sauce making it taste ...

When you think of ricotta, what comes to mind? For years, the first thing that came to my mind was the mounds of white fluffy cheese I would purchase from the deli counter that would become the cheesy ...

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I am a little late to the ricotta party. For a long while, this Italian whey cheese has been relegated solely to lasagnas and other filled pasta dishes. Aside from that, ricotta has not played a role ...

GRAND FORKS – I am usually all about keeping things in the kitchen as easy and “real life-ready” as possible. Most of time, that involves buying some prepackaged foods and adding my own flair to it.