Pasta with Green Beans and Ricotta

This pasta dish with green beans and ricotta is a wonderful side dish or even a great main dish. The pasta and the beans are tossed with lots of Parmesan or Romano cheese and herbs, and then combined with generous dollops of ricotta cheese. 

This pasta dish is pure comfort food. It's creamy, a little bit spicy, and loaded with freshly blanched French green beans cut into one inch pieces. You can even eat it from a bowl with a spoon while streaming your favorite show. 

Blueberry Lemon Ricotta Tea Cake

This Blueberry Lemon Ricotta Tea Cake is so moist and delicious. Everyone loves the combination of blueberries and lemons, and the ricotta helps make the cake extra tender. It's perfect for serving with tea or coffee. 

I love baking with ricotta cheese. It makes everything so soft and tender. Add it to cookies and you end up with little mini cakes. It's also wonderful in bundt cake recipes.

Lasagna for Two {or Three}

When you want classic lasagna for dinner, but do not want to make a full casserole of this hearty dish, make this lasagna for two.

This lasagna for two is wonderful for folks living alone, newlyweds and empty nesters, as well as families with small children. It would also be a wonderful treat to deliver to couples who are bringing home a new baby.

Sausage and Cambozola Pizza with Arugula and Grapes

This hot Italian sausage pizza, topped with Cambozola, ricotta, and Fontina cheeses, as well as grapes and shallots, is magical, and the roasted grapes add a savory sweet compliment to the three cheeses in the pizza.

I'm sure you're thinking, "grape pizza? That's weird!" Not so! Just think of it as artisan bread, wine, and cheese! You definitely need to give it a chance.

Slow Cooker Lasagna Soup

This Slow Cooker Lasagna Soup tastes just like your favorite Italian layered casserole, but with less than half of the calories.

This Crock-Pot Lasagna Soup includes hot Italian sausage, marinara sauce, lasagne noodles broken into pieces, and a topping of ricotta mixed with parmesan and parsley.

Ricotta Chocolate Chip Cookies

These ricotta chocolate chip cookies are so soft and cake-like. They are pretty much little cakes in a cookie form.

While most chocolate chip cookies are either crispy or chewy, these ricotta chocolate chip cookies are tender and soft. They get this way from the ricotta cheese. It's pretty magical.