Three-Cheese Polenta Pie

With its bright yellow crust, creamy herb and cheese filling and chunky tomato topping, this eye-catching plate is an ideal vegetarian lunch, brunch or supper. For even lower fat content, choose part-skim mozzarella and low-fat ricotta.

Whole Grain Rotini With Lamb Ragout

Whole grain pasta is rustic enough to stand up well to a thick lamb-andtomato sauce. Topping it with creamy ricotta and fresh mint adds a touch of elegance. Serve with cracked black pepper and a simple green salad.

Slow Cooker Beef Ragu

This hearty sauce is best served over a short pasta with lots of nooks and crannies it can tuck into and cling to. This ragu also makes a delicious lasagna filling when layered with sheets of fresh pasta and ricotta and mozzarella cheeses. Cost: $2.15/cup

Potato, Goat Cheese Lasagna

One evening I had a potato lasagna while out for dinner with my husband, that I truly enjoyed. My daughter loves lasagna but is unable to eat ricotta cheese, and adores goat cheese. I decided to combine the two ideas and continued to play with recipe until I came up with this one, enjoy!

Lasagna

This recipe, in a slightly different version, was given to me by a co-worker 40 years ago. Over the years, I have adjusted it to include the shredded mozarella, adjusted the spices, replaced cottage cheese with ricotta and added the Parmesan. The meat sauce is also the same sauce I use for spaghetti and the base for chili. It is the most frequent request of one of daughters and my husband for birthday dinners.

Moussagna

I thought about making a healthier version of lasagna with vegetables instead of pasta and thought of using eggplant instead of the lasagna noodles to come up with "Moussagna" (Moussaka and Lasagna combined). I've eliminated the bechamel sauce to cut back on the fat and used the tomato based sauce from the lasagna recipe to make it low fat. I also used low fat cottage cheese instead of the full ricotta cheese.

Cheesy Pasta Casserole

Lemon Watercress Soup

Lemon Chicken Lasagna