So, how's the zucchini out by you these days? Here in sultry New Jersey it has us surrounded, which is as good an excuse as any to make this zucchini pasta with ricotta recipe ...and which in turn lets me indulge two of my favorite things to do; using my lethal weapon of a mandoline, and making yet another pot of fresh ricotta. Neither one of which should scare you off, since you can make this dish perfectly nicely with a regular knife and ricotta from the store, but I'm just saying.