Baked Ziti - Blame it on The Sorpranos

I have been obsessively watching The Sopranos on hijacked HBO and all they do is kill people and eat pasta.  They talked about Baked Ziti a whole lot and it made me want to make it.  So I looked up tons of recipes (who knew it was so popular?!) and took a little from all of them, and added a few touches of my own.

It was so effing good.  Seriously.  One of the easiest, best things I've ever made.  It however, made a ton.  Kyle and I ate it for 7 days straight.  Two friends came to visit and they each ate it twice.  But, we were all happy to eat it each time.  We ate it with salad to pretend we were being healthy and some yummy baguette.  I for some reason didn't take any pictures except for the end result.  Sorry.  But please enjoy this and try not to get too fat.


Ingredients:

• 1 pound dry ziti pasta
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 1/2 lb Italian sausage
• 2 (26 ounce) jars spaghetti sauce - I used Newman's Own Sockittome and added 1/4 stick of butter into my sauce as it cooked
• 3/4 lb provolone cheese, sliced
• 1 1/2 cups sour cream
• 1 bag mozzarella cheese, shredded

Actual Work:

- Boil your pasta until it's done.
- In a skillet, brown your Italian Sausage and onion.
- Add your sauce and butter to your sausage and let simmer for about 15 minutes.
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- Put a layer of ziti in bottom of your baking dishes.  Add sauce on top of the ziti and mix together.  Add a little more sauce.  Then layer your provolone on top of the pasta mixture, then a nice thick layer of sour cream.  Next, add a layer of mozzarella.  Then the ziti/sauce mixture, and then top with provolone and mozzarella.  You should have enough to to do two dishes. 

It really doesn't matter the order, as there are many conflicting arguments, but this is what I decided to go with and it worked well for me. 

- Bake at 350 for 30 to 40 minutes until all melty and bubbly. But, PLEASE - don't forget to cover it when cooking! Yay!

(I ran out of cheese on the on the right)