Mark's Baked Ziti

Ingredients:

• 1 lb. Italian sausage & 1 lb. beef ground together
• 2 eggs
• 2 tbsp. fresh parsley (chopped)
• 1 lb. cut ziti pasta
• 1 lb. mozzarella (sliced)
• 1 qt. marinara sauce
• 4 oz. grated Romano cheese
• 1 lb. ricotta cheese

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. In a bowl, mix together the 2 eggs with the ricotta cheese, 2 tbsp. of chopped parsley and 1 oz. Romano cheese. In a skillet, brown the sausage/beef mixture. Add 4 oz of the marinara sauce to the brown sausage/beef mixture in the skillet and cook for another 10 minutes then let cool. In a large pot, boil the pasta for 7 minutes and then strain and rinse with cold water. Add the ground meat mixture to the ziti in a large bowl. Take a baking dish and add a layer of marinara sauce to cover the bottom of the pan. Then, add a layer the ziti and ground meat mixture. With a table spoon, add about 12 spoon fulls of the egg/ricotta mixture on top (it does not need to spread out, it may look as though 12 dollops are scattered on top). Add a layer of the sliced mozzarella and repeat this process 3 times. Finally top the dish off with marinara sauce and bake for 45 minutes.

*Serves approx 8 people