My mom has always historically made baked ziti with coin-sliced sausage.

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Anonymous wrote:It's the pioneer woman baked ziti - it definitely calls for meat.

She goes a bit overboard on everything for my taste.

Yes, she's pretty ham-handed with her ingredients IMO (pardon the pun).

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Anonymous wrote:I don't eat meat and cheese together but that just seems like a lot of meat to Pasta ratio.

Are you Kosher?

yes

Anonymous wrote:I use 1lb meat to 1 lb of pasta.

+1. Pioneer Woman is feeding ranchers and shit...that's probably why she uses the 2:1 ratio.

Anonymous wrote:I use 1lb meat to 1 lb of pasta.

+1 usually what I do too

And many people DO use meat - ground beef, italian sausage - in baked ziti.

I usually use 1 lb. of meat per 1/2 lb of pasta. I found that it really did not make that much of a difference. We still had pasta in every bite.

I use 1lb meat to 1 lb of pasta.

Anonymous wrote:I don't eat meat and cheese together but that just seems like a lot of meat to Pasta ratio.

Are you Kosher?

if you like it better with less meat, then there's your answer. make it whatever way you prefer and who cares what everyone else does?

Anonymous wrote:It's the pioneer woman baked ziti - it definitely calls for meat.

She goes a bit overboard on everything for my taste.

Is this a s/o of Lawnman Tickled My Daughter?

It's the pioneer woman baked ziti - it definitely calls for meat.

I don't eat meat and cheese together but that just seems like a lot of meat to Pasta ratio.

Baked ziti doesn't have meat. Are you sure you're not accidentally making lasagna?

So, the recipe stated 2 pounds of meat for 1 pound (box) of pasta... The first 2 times I made the recipe, I only had a pound of ground beef, so that was all I used and it turned out great... Yesterday, I had 2 pounds and put them both in and its SO heavy now. Just seems like too much... But maybe this is how it is supposed tobe?

What are you meat to pasta proportions?