Jolene's Recipe Journal

Z is for Ziti! This year I'm participating in a bi-weekly challenge with some blogging friends to post recipes using all of the letters in the alphabet.  It  can feature a food that begins with the letter of the week or the recipe name can contain the week's letter. I'm wrapping up with Easy Ziti Bake from Taste of Home.  The hardest part of the whole dish was actually getting the ziti!  First my grocery pickup substituted rigatoni.  My husband nicely offered to pick some up and came home with more rigatoni.  Third time was the charm!  The original recipe called for two pounds of ground beef but I used one pound and a pound of ground mild Italian sausage.  I browned them in the same skillet and then drained them.  You can use homemade sauce if you like but in keeping with the "easy" theme I used store bought. We are Ragu fans, for this I used a chunky sauce that already contains herbs and garlic. If yours doesn't, add 1 teaspoon of Italian se...