This was a good recipe~was looking for a "lasagna" recipe,but wanted to use penne pasta instead, since it is what I had on hand. These are the additions and changes that I made (only to suit our taste on experience/ not because of any possible flaws in your recipe). I added 2 tablespoons of the zest dry italian seasoning to the meat, as well as fresh mushrooms, while it browned.... and fresh sliced zucchini. I mixed some of the pasta sauce with the noodles (3/4 lb) of penne, laid it at bottom of baking pan, then spread the ricotta mixture, put remaining meat sauce on top of that, and lastly the mozzarella with a few shakes of parmesean .

Mmmm, this is so good. I put some sauce on the bottom of dish (9 x 13) to just cover and I also mixed the sauce (homemade from this site "Homemade Tomato Sauce I") into the pasta instead of the ground beef. If you don't want this to dry out and have a crunchy top then cover with foil while baking. This is a keeper. Thx.

Family loved it! I used to make something very similar but my wife said this was better. The only change i made is I add more cheese then suggested and I used Cottage Cheese.

Loved this one. Thanks for sharing.

Everyone loved it! At thte last minute I invited my Italian mother in-law for dinner and she approved and asked for the recipe!

This was excellent. Quck and easy, the entire family loved it!!!

Really good and easy to prepare when you are having a crowd over for dinner. Everyone loved it. Thank you for sharing.

Kinda dry tasting.

Very good recipe. Thanks for sharing!

This was easier to make than regular lasagna. I used home made meat sauce and some small rigatoni. With ricotta I added an egg, parm and mozz chesse, parsley (just as for my lasagna), and some S&P. Makes it more spreadable this way also. Tasted just like my lasagna so thats always good.

it was great, but the boyfriend said a little cheesy. that may have been my fault though b/c i love cheese!

This gets 5 stars for flavor,and 5 stars for the low cost but I have to rate it four stars for originality. This came out like baked ziti with penne noodles. I did cook a diced onion, garlic and red pepper in some olive oil first and add it to the sauce. I also doubled the recipe and we ate it for dinner 5 days in a row. No one complained everyone loved it.

This recipe is so much easier than lasagna and just as yummy! My family enjoyed it with garlic bread and salad. We doubled the recipe and substituted cottage cheese for the ricotta, but other than that, followed the recipe exactly. My husband said it only needed mushrooms to make this a 5-star recipe! Will definitely put this in the rotation!

Pretty average. But good.

Very tasty! To make this suitable for my "meatatarian" man, I used 3/4 lb. ground beef and only about 1/3 of the pasta. I also replaced the ricotta w/ cottage cheese. We both loved it! This was simple and easy for a weeknight.

Added some fresh mushrooms as well to the sauce. It was easy to make and tasted great!

Tasted very good, and this was MUCH easier to make than traditional lasagna!