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Boy, that recipe has my mouth watering...those meatballs sound just wonderful...I am writing it down now, and going to do this, the next time I make spaghetti and meatballs...I love spaghetti and meatballs and italian sausage...

I also use Ricotta cheese in a pie recipe...I am trying to remember it off the top of my head, but I mix eggs, parmesan cheese, ricotta cheese, and spinach...mix is all together, and bake in a pie crust, and cover with a pie crust...some people also like to add a bit of meat, usually some sausage, but we like it without the meat...

Its great for a snack, or a side dish, or just sometimes in the morning for a change...

Thats what I really like about Ricotta cheese...it has such a wonderful consistency, and is so bland, that it just takes on the flavors of whatever else is in there...

One of my husbands Italian aunties, used to make her own canollis, which from what I understand is really a pain...she made her canolli shells from scratch, and then filled them with the most wonderfully sweetend and flavored Ricotta cheese, along with I think miniature chocolate chips, and candied cherries...It was heavenly...

Every time I see the movie the Godfather, when Clemenza leaves the house to look for mattresses for the upcoming gangwar hideout thingey, I always remember his wife standing on the front porch, telling Clemenza, not to forget the canollis...and after Clemenza and his driver kill off Paulie, Clemenza tells the guy to leave the gun, take the canollis...

And then after seeing that exchange, I think of my husbands auntie, and her wonderful canollis...