CLEVELAND, Ohio – My cousin Tamar and I exchange very good cooking ideas - and very bad puns. So when the topic of DIY ricotta came up, I immediately texted her for a consult and received the reply: ...

In a medium bowl, use your hand or a rubber spatula to combine beef, ricotta, Parmesan, parsley, egg, nutmeg, salt and pepper. Form mixture into 8 meatballs, transferring them to a plate as you go.

Cooking from scratch is an ideal I aim for, but sometimes it is not practical. Either the food takes an enormous amount of time to prepare, or it needs a skill that takes a lot of practice to acquire.

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 ...

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 ...

Joining sourdough and Dalgona coffee, homemade ricotta has become one of the Instagram recipe stars of the pandemic, with thousands of home cooks sharing pictures of their curdled milk products ...

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 ...

Homemade ricotta is creamier and more indulgent than its store-bought counterpart, and it’s easy to make, too. It’s a great way to use up milk that’s approaching expiration (older milk curdles more ...

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, ...

Berry explains that ricotta is made from the residual whey from cheesemaking. "Italians first crafted ricotta to make use of Romano cheese's leftover whey," she says. "They cooked the whey until the ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (Mass Appeal) 20% of the milk consumed in the state each year is from a MA farm. Claire Morenon Program Coordinator at CISA, (Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture) showed us ...

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 ...