I’m an Italian American who cooks a lot—and I use quite a bit of ricotta. It’s practically a staple in my kitchen, along with olive oil, garlic and basil. I make trays of lasagna for the holidays, ...

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.

It takes just 3-ingredients to make homemade ricotta cheese. Make this from scratch in your kitchen, where you control the ingredients used, and it tastes even better than buying it at the store. Use ...

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 ...

I found myself giggling as I stood at my stove. I was using the end of my candy thermometer to stir a mixture of milk and cream in my heavy, turquoise-colored saucepan. Its enamel-coated interior is ...

You open the fridge and nothing inspires you: a half-finished container, spinach, a couple of eggs. Now what? Ricotta can sort out that chaos, bind a sauce, give body to a filling or save a simple ...

What’s the best-tasting ricotta? The ricotta you make yourself. Free of stabilizers and preservatives, homemade ricotta is much easier to make than you may think. The fresh-tasting results are leagues ...

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.