The only changes I made were to cut the salt and sugar in half. I usually don't put sugar in my pasta sauce, but I wanted to follow as close as possible. I simmered the meat sauce in the crock pot for a couple of hours the night before I actually served it. I used the no-boil noodles and they were fine without pre-soaking. The amount of ricotta was perfect, not overwhelming as some lasagna tends to be. The day we ate it I thought it was good, but not sure if it was worth the trouble and expense. Two days later this recipe had earned it's 5 stars. The flavor was incredible! I strongly suggest preparing this a day or two in advance and allowing the cheese flavor to really sink into the meat and noodles. Fortunatley I doubled the meat sauce so I'm going to go ahead and prepare another pan to freeze for later use.

Reviewed On: Nov. 10, 2009

This recipe was fantastic! I usually use packaged gravy but didn't have any on hand. I looked online for something i could make with ingedients I already had at home and of course I ended up coming to allrecipes.com. I didn't have the beef cubes so I used chicken instead. it was phenomenal! Thank you so much!

Reviewed On: Aug. 26, 2008

I decided to try this because I don't eat crab meat and I have not been able to find a restaurant that has only cream cheese. so of course I eliminated the crab and also the chestnuts and I added some scallions. I baked half the batch and then fried half and of course everything is better when it's marinated in grease! so long story short, I will definately make these again.

Reviewed On: Apr. 25, 2008