Baked Pasta with Mozzarella and Ricotta 

I just wanted to come back and clarify something. Earlier I said that this was way too much ricotta and that next time I'd use a lot less. Apparently I bought a 2 lb container and used it all, so yeah, definitely don't do that.

absolutely in love with this guy and his cooking ive learned so much! new subbie

Love how your channel is blowing up. I love that you teach amazing Italian dishes without complicating things. You preach personal preference. Cheers!

You can’t claim to be New Yorker without knowing this recipe. Ok maybe you can if you don’t have Italian friends but still. This is a must. A rite of passage. Good job. Bravo.

My comment is this: I have never made a single recipe from your website that wasn’t AWESOME! THANK YOU!

Baked Ziti is the Italian-American version of the Italian-Canadian dish called Pasta al Forno. 😋🇮🇹🇨🇦

I was never a huge fan of baked ziti, maybe I never understood it. But yours looks bomber. 👍👍

My daughter ALWAYS asks me to make this dish ....she loves Momma's cooking .....lol

Another mouth-watering dish! You are an awesome cook 👍

“What to make for the next episode…….” ANYTHING!!!!!

Man I've been watching you tonight for like 3 hours now. I needed a red sauce for spaghetti and I came right to you because I discovered you earlier in the week and I knew you'd have just the ticket. Spaghetti has been done for hours now and I just can't stop watching your content. Love your approach to cooking!

When I was a kid every Sunday we would have dinner at my grandmother's house and she would always make baked rigatoni with braciole, meatballs and sausage. The kids weren't allowed to have the braciole. I made sure to empty the bottom of everyone's wine glass after the adults left the table.

Oh, boy, another "gotta try this one!" recipe! I love pasta with just butter and olive oil as a sauce, but add the cheeses and sauce, and it's a different level of "life is great!"!

I am _so_ glad you ditched the reversed ball cap look! 👍👍👍

Would love to see an oso bucco show. Also polenta, and things that can be made from it. My MIL would put leftover polenta in a baking dish and slice it in the morning, fry in butter, warm syrup for her grandkids breakfasts before they went off to their parochial school for the day.

Tks , for showing how to eat Italian on Sundays ,it’s been a longtime since I’ve been with my Italian family in Wichita❤🦋

I lived on baked ziti when I moved to Philly to go to college. Delicious and filling. And it didn't make me fat because I wrestled. LOL!

Wow, that dish is just dripping with cheese. Awesome

I’m making this right now 🙂 the only thing I did differently Is I added some things to the ricotta before mixing it with the pasta but I’m super excited to try it 😋

Very Nice! DIfferent than my baked ziti vid. So many ways to make it! 👍👍

Shoutouts to Uncle Giuseppe's, I'm in the food industry and they're one of my best customers. Great products there.

Pasta is really delicious

Thank you for another great recipe. Since I just found your channel, I'm still getting through videos and will watch some sauce recipes next. I'm looking for a meatless sauce. Your channel is wonderful!

as soon as I start watching I have to head straight for the kitchen to see if I have the ingredients, your videos are soooo good thank you for sharing :)

These are the foods I grew up on. That baked ziti looks so delicious.

My nona would make a Bacalhau dish on fridays, along with squid, crab, anchovies & octopus. Although she did teach me some of her dishes and i just learned alot by watching all the time, there were some dishes i didnt get to see her make enough or that she didnt teach me to make. Her Bacalhau was one of them. And god, what id give just to have that dish again. She'd make fritters and i can kind of get those down, but she would also make almost another dish with the cod. Had a bunch of onions, potatoes, sometimes olives, sometimes not. It was one of my favorite soups that she would make, But i cant find out what this dish is. If anyone happens to know what it is PLEASE 🙏 🙏 🙏 LET ME KNOW! ive searched all over the internet, asked every family member & friend i can get ahold of and unfortunately noone knows what it was. They will remember eating it, but noone knows what it was called or how she made it. My grandmother was italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and swiss heritage. So maybe it wasnt an italian dish? Maybe someone else knows about this dish? Maybe its popular in their country/family? It was a thick-ish soup, but at the same time it felt very "fresh", almost light, almost salad like. I know that doesnt make any sense. How does a soup feel salad like lol. Salad isnt the correct term. It was hearty, but at the same time it was light, wasnt heavy like a long cooked stew. If anyone can make sense of my gibberish and happens to know what im referring to PLEASE PLEASE let me know! Any help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!

Love the way you explain everything! I am learning so much! Enjoy watching your kids helping out also!

I would love to see more in this series. Will you consider adding to it?

Love this!!! Thank God for you, so glad to have found your channel, so many recipes that also look AMAZING! I will be sure to like and comment on each one💕 thank you for sharing and for all you do. 😊💕God bless!

I made baked ziti off the web site. Used my own sauce and boars head mozzerella. Used the good ricotta that starts with a G that you talk about and Moi! It was DELISH!!! This will have to become a regular meal! How do you think this would freeze?

Yummy! Maybe how to make Spinach crespolini next

Can you make a Italian beef stew . Or Italian pot roast ? . Ty , Sharon 😋😊🙋🏻‍♀️👍

I had an Italian boyfriend whose family was from Bari, on mainland Italy. It was interesting to eat his family’s version of Italian food. Baked ziti was pasta with a red meat sauce and peas. No ricotta, just mozzarella on top. Not better than American baked ziti, just different. Another really good thing was poached eggs and parsley in a thin, watery tomato sauce, kind of like a soup. I didn’t like all of it, though. One thing is mom made was a sort of ravioli with aged ricotta, which smelled so bad and tasted worse. She had to go all the way to Hoboken to buy this aged ricotta. I guess it would be considered an acquired taste….but, frankly, it was disgusting.

I'm a little confused about what exactly the Sunday Sauce is. Is it sauce that just has the tomatoes, paste, onions, olive oil, salt, pepper and sugar? Or is it the leftover sauce after you made the sauce with pork chops, meatballs, braciole or sins other meat having already been cooked in it? For example, in this ziti recipe ; has the sauce your using in this recipe had meat cooked in it already? Or is it just the sauce, onions, oil, seasonings etc? Thanks!!!

Ya know, my Italian grandma taught me all I need to know about sauce. But ... that sauce in this video looks rich and thick and tasty. I"m going to have to watch that next. And I definitely want some baked Ziti this week!

Made the sauce on Sunday (it’s so good), now using the the leftover sauce for baked ziti tonight.

I left a comment below yesterday, but wanted to add something. I've watched this video a few times now and am pausing the video so I can cook along with you :) As I'm typing this, my pasta is bubbling and my cheese is grated. I've got two casserole dishes out and ready to layer once my pasta is al dente. I thought I'd make two so I can have one for my husband and I to enjoy and then I can take one to my grandchildren's home tonight. They are Italian, pasta loving kiddos. I'm absolutely loving your channel and am watching as many of your videos as I can fit into my day. I recently found your channel, so I'm late to the game and have a lot of catching up to do. Lastly, you asked for suggestions and I'd love to see a polenta recipe. I grew up eating polenta but only had it when my grandmother made it. She's since passed, but I once asked her how she made it. Her description was vague because she seldom wrote recipes down because she said it was all in her head. She would make a savory creamy polenta and then she also made a cold polenta with fresh, raw, and very finely chopped kale. She would serve this version cold. It was delicious! I'd love to see your take on this. Thank you.

I'm 100% Italian American and used to eat this and was always sick, why IBS.....haven't had this in years but if you put this in front of me I'd take the hit and be sick for a day or two.

I just made this it looks amazing. This baked ziti also tasted great.I used four cheese also, I buy parmigiana ragiano, and pecorino romano and grate it myself. I have a suggestion lasagna, it’s a layering dish completely. Thanks

That looks exactly like my grandmother's ziti except she would throw in a few of her meatballs.

I made your recipe today. OMG it was so good!!! i looked at other's recipe but I chose yours and I'm glad I did. I have to check out your Sunday Sauce although I make a good sauce.

I love your channel. Can I just use Victoria marinara sauce instead of Sunday? Too lazy for that. It’s on sale at Costco right now.

Very similar to Alison Roman's technique - that's how you know you both are doing the classics

Do make sense to use butter when first mixing with gravy??. Excellent video as always

Make whatever you'd like as I am loving it all. I have to adapt recipes (whole wheat, chickpea or lentil pasta) as I am diabetic but the sunday sauce is perfect!

Did you make osso buco yet?or coq Au vin?

Hey quick question. is the Sunday Sauce just the tomatos/onions etc without the meat? I saw the first video, but unsure what you mean when you say "Sunday Sauce"

Love the channel! Great stuff here. I was wondering if you know what these things my grandma used to make are. She would make these things (I don't know the right spelling) but they called them "Caleshoon". I think it was like a lasagna noodle cooked then filled with cheese (probably parmesean and maybe something else) then sealed, egg washed and baked. I've never seen them anywhere and I never really learned how to make them - so the above is just speculation. It might have been something she just did, but maybe you might know more about it. Looking forward to more videos! Cheers

I miss Polly-O mozzarella and ricotta, have d to find in Pennsylvania. Dececco is easy to find.

Hi Sip and Feast guy. I love the videos. What did you do with the Sunday sauce meat, the pork chops and sausage. Did they give up all their flavor to the sauce.

Your recipes are great, BUT if you can introduce slowly what cheeses you use that would be Easier. Otherwise your recipes are really hard to follow.

So easy and so good! Used Rao's sauce and came out great. Maybe make sauce from scratch next time but not necessary if pressed for time. Great video.

Thank you for the simple video. I have watched so many and got more confused each time🙏🏽

Oh yes! I'm making this weekend. I've done it before. So you inspired me

Love your videos. I grew up in NJ and worked at a pizzeria for 10+ years. Now I'm in Denver and most of that food is nowhere to be found. These are the recipes that bring me home. Thanks for making them.

I really appreciate the straightforward clear no BS approach your demo/teaching style is. Thanks

Love baked Ziti, its a perfect classic dish! How about some ravioli recipes?

I just made your Sunday sauce two days ago so it had time to cook and than made this recipe last night. OMG....it was amazing and so easy, my two favorite things with a good recipe. I invited my friend over last night who is quite a good cook herself and she said that it would give any restaurant in the area a run for it's money. I love your series and can't wait to make more and more of your great recipes. Keep them coming! Your newest fan.

Can you make an eggplant dish soon? It's my favorite veg

Thank you so much for this recipe. I made it for the first time and my family loves it keep up the great work.

looks good have you ever tried non wheat pasta like cauliflower or chickpea pasta ? love your videos but need to watch amt of wheat based pasta I eat

Just made this and it was outrageous!!!Subscribedddd😍

Excellent presentation, making this tonight…thanx..

Love the videos. Your pizza series inspired me to try my hand at making my own pizza. I have to say for my first time making pizza it wasn't to bad. Your Sunday dinner series reminds me of the times I would go with my parents and siblings to my father's parents house. There was braciole, meatballs and sausage in homemade sauce and pasta. At Christmas my Grandmother would make the Seven Fishes feast. That was fantastic. With the holidays coming up would that be something you could culinarily explore? Thank you and keep this going. Italian traditions, especially around food are very important.

I love all the recipes and I am working on the ones with Sunday sauce

Been awesome watching these videos. Can't wait until I can get a bunch of folks together again and try all these recipes out!

Oh, my! Just found you, so exciting, looks so delicious!

I love your accent … especially when you say soass (sauce)😂 keep up the excellent work!

how to make deep-dish pizza without the crust being too dry?

Ugh, can't get Polly-O in CA. :(

Please make your best meat lasagna

Made this for dinner last night & it was sooooo delicious ! creamy ricotta adds a nice richness . One of my new faves now. ( Your recipes are all excellent ! Appreciate the tips & info on your preferred tools ).

This loooks divine! Greens would be good inside too! Artichoke dip!

Locatelli and pecorino is the BEST !!!!

Make more pulses, like the ones they would have eaten in the village decades ago. Please.

Looks fabulous, can’t wait to make it myself!

Now I'm going to watch how you make Sunday sauce

My Sicilian partner of 4 years pronounced it "ray koh tah", and he was born in upstate New York, his father from Brooklynn. Sounds like you are saying it 'ree go tah"... His dad is from blocks away from you, and I wonder, do you ever run into locals who pronounce it "ray koh tah"? It's interesting that dialects continue to evolve outside of a country of origin, similar to the differences of speaking American, Canadian, English and Australian...and NZ (&parts of India)! It's just me, I'm into language variants.

I agree I thought they would like the fried meatballs the best.

I absolutely love watching you! ❤

Excellent video! Thank you!! ❤

i want to move to America and hire you as my personal chef 😄

Is there a problem using fresh mozzarella?

pasta came just as pictured but I had to bake it half hr longer

Ok…this guy is killing me…looks amazing….I’m subscribed..!!

This is wonderful. Thank you so much

Great stuff man! I’ve watched just about all your chicken videos. I was nyc earlier this and had a chick dish called “chicken contadina” the restaurant was called carmines. Is that stuff the same as chicken scarp?????

I enjoy your videos. Thank you for the effort sir.

I made your chicken franchise, it was delicious. All my guests wanted to recipe. Thanks for the video

It is 7:47am I’m having my morning black coffee. Have not had breakfast and watching your video of this wonderful ziti pasta. I’m trying to eat well for the most part and lose some weight. Problem is I LOVE pasta one of my favorite dishes. I’m Latina so I love to cook. Your one of my fav’s. I’d say #1 on my list. I am salivating watching you prep this wonderful dish. I wanna cry I can just imagine tasting it. Yet not a reality at this point. Will make soon. TY for sharing sir. I absolutely have to make my own Sunday sauce will check your recipe. Keep ‘em coming. 👏🏼🙌🏼👍🏼🥹😋😛

I've never made baked ziti. I know feel confident that I can make it. I love your tutorials.

Second time watching this video, following along making myself. It's * perfection *

Excellent.I made it tonight.

It’s the first time I’m watching, I love the way you show your steps of cooking, I’m making this dish today, 👍👍 from New York

Hello from Ireland, Can't wait t try this and some of your other recipes. Keep up the good work! Cheers, Eamon :-)

I’m enjoying your videos tremendously!! Thank you for the inspiration😊

Thanks Jim! I wish I wasn't doing Keto... love the recipes!

Love your videos...Italian American is one of my fave cuisines...and I love the authentic dishes too. So glad I found you...I used to live in NYC and I really miss not seeing some of these dishes where I live now...Oregon. Let me throw a monkey wrench into things...I stopped using ricotta for pasta dishes a long time ago. I don't know...the texture bothered me sometimes. I use large curd cottage cheese now...seems so much creamier.

Is there anything more satisfying than homemade sauce and pasta? And cheese? And then you throw in those crispy browned edges! What more could anyone possibly want? Maybe meatballs. Sometimes I sneak teeny tiny meatballs into my baked ziti. But that's just me. I'd sit at your table and feast on your dishes any day!

Do you have any good Italian salad receipes? Love the channel…I’ve made a couple so far, and they are amazing…