Binging with Babish: Ziti and Lasagna from The Sopranos

Gabagool!

Needs sauce layer layer boo

I knew a béchamel was coming.

I’ve been making this for years, but only putting the (roughly chopped) basil under the very top layer of cheese and not using fresh mozzarella inside. Just on the top.

20 years in da can. I wanted lasagna, I compromised and watched Babish videos instead.

"F*ck you talking about!" That always gets me😅

Four years, and we're STILL waiting on Phil's classic recipe: grilled cheese off the raadiator

This Babish definitely has the making of a varsity athlete

YEAH YEAH VERY NICE! I ate grilled cheese off the radiator instead. I compromised....

Should really be Ziti and Manicotti, as thaie are the two most eaten/mentioned. They almost never talk about lasagna. That one scene is basically they only time they talk about it.

Love the father Phil reference 😂

I too share the ricotta disdain lol

Missed an opportunity to call the sauce gravy. Madone

Cottage cheese and bechamel?
And you thought Germans were classless pieces of s**t!

Bechemel Ziti was Artie Bucco's idea, served it with instructions about shelf life. That said, if legendary, will only last one sitting.

I just watched this episode the other night, and the description was so specific that I thought "I'm sure Babish has made Carmella's lasagna."

Back when this man wasn't a sell out

Concealing your own lack of cooking skills by misappropriating Carmelas lasagna in order to woo a newly widowed man, that is truly an act of Janice.

Not topping a lasagna with a bechamel or mornay sauce is just insane to me.

So what, no f'n ziti now?!

Shoulda been manigott!!

I feel my heart stressing just watching this. I’ll probably make some baked ziti.

Babish: Puts Rigatoni instead of Ziti
AJ: “So what, no f-ing ziti now?”

The last recipe you made is just like how my Nonna does it and I love it! Thank you babish

You killed it with the basil 😢

KARANS LAAASSSTT ZITTTIIII

I'm gonna do another Ziti for Sunday Dinner, It's gonna be the one.

When you're putting a shitload of cheese on something there is no reason to add salt more salt. Cheese is super salty already. The only reason to do that is that you are only taking one bite from the monstrosity and spitting it out.

No soffritto, non buono...

“Did someone just say that’s too much cheese? I’m gonna ask you to leave”

Sorry Andrew, I’ve seen the Cooking with Jack Show, there is definitely such thing as too much cheese, thankfully, you didn’t cross that line here

Looks great... but it's not 'Carmella's lasagne' as described by Junior.
-"Sweet sausage in little pieces" suggesting it is already cooked and chopped into little pieces before adding to the meat sauce. "and a layer of basil leaves right underneath the cheese"... not on top of the cheese, and not with every layer.
Sorry to be a pedant. 😂

Just so happens I’m having a soprano style homemade lasagna evening tonight that just means extra cheese and extra sauce! 😂😂😂😂

But I’m randomly having this for the first time in two months and Amazon and it just pops up and I didn’t even type anything in my phone!

They are constantly listening to us ants!!!! 😂😂😂😂

Stop making us all make béchamel!!!!

I gotta ask…. What do you have against ricotta?

Imagine being a neighbor and getting this food 😭😭

I always imagined the basil layer to only be under the last layer not all of them

Thats everything but a traditional italian Lasagne. The ricotta version is only popular among italians in the us. In Europe theres is no Ricotta in the Lasagne. They use bechamelsauce

Ima make the zit tomorrow 🔥

As a Piemontese, using ricotta for lasagna in general is a capitol sin. Besciamella supreme

Yes, please

Babish never had makings of varsity pourer of sauce

You have an ad of you before the video. Not bad 👍

I’m gonna need to know why you hate ricotta so much, my dude.

My only conplaint is pouring over the handle lol

Love you babish, but it doesnt make any sense to you for them to just add the meat to the onion cuz you are very "extra" lol. Its probably just a way to minimize dirty dishes and just make things easier. Your way is probably better but for us lazy cooks we just throw stuff in haha

Basil under the cheese lasagna Thank you Junior.

So what cheese do u recommend?

so glad you didn't add sugar to your sauce... so many mungiacakes out here sweetening their sauce with straight white granulated sugar.

Now do Manicott' and compromise by making grilled cheese off the rādiator