{"id":410,"date":"2007-06-04T15:05:42","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T20:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=410"},"modified":"2007-06-04T15:05:42","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T20:05:42","slug":"What's Cooking... Southern Living's Baked Ziti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=410","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Cooking&#8230; Southern Living&#8217;s Baked Ziti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Baked Ziti<\/strong> from Southern Living<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1\/2 med onion chopped (I used onion flakes)<\/li>\n<li>1 T olive oil<\/li>\n<li>2 garlic cloves, minced<\/li>\n<li>1 lb lean ground beef or turkey<\/li>\n<li>1 26oz jar of tomato-and-basil pasta sauce<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 tsp salt, divided<\/li>\n<li>1 16oz box of ziti pasta<\/li>\n<li>3 T butter<\/li>\n<li>3 T flour<\/li>\n<li>3 cups milk<\/li>\n<li>1 c grated Parmesan<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 t pepper<\/li>\n<li>1 8oz pkg shredded mozzarella cheese<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Saute<br \/>\nchopped onion in hot oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat 5<br \/>\nminutes or until tender.&nbsp; Add garlic, and saute 1 minute.&nbsp; Add beef,<br \/>\nand cook, stirring until beef crumbles and is no longer pink.&nbsp; Drain<br \/>\nbeef mixture and return to pan.&nbsp; Stir in pasta sauce and 1\/2 tsp salt.&nbsp;<br \/>\nSet aside.<\/p>\n<p>Cook pasta in a large Dutch oven according to pkg directions. Drain and return to Dutch oven.<\/p>\n<p>Melt<br \/>\nbutter in a heavy saucepan over low heat; whisk in flour until smooth.&nbsp;<br \/>\nCook, whisking constantly 1 minute.&nbsp; Gradually whisk in milk; cook over<br \/>\nmedium heat, whisking constantly, until mixture is thickened and<br \/>\nbubbly.&nbsp; Stir in Parmesan, 1\/4 tsp remaining salt and pepper.&nbsp; pour<br \/>\nsauce over pasta in Dutch oven, stirring until pasta is evenly coated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Transfer pasta mixture to a lightly greased 13&#215;9 baking dish.&nbsp; Top<br \/>\nevenly with beef mixture; sprinkle evenly with mozzarella cheese.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Bake at 350 for 20-25 min or until cheese is melted.&nbsp; Let stand for 10 min. before serving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baked Ziti from Southern Living 1\/2 med onion chopped (I used onion flakes) 1 T olive oil 2 garlic cloves, minced 1 lb lean ground beef or turkey 1 26oz jar of tomato-and-basil pasta sauce 3\/4 tsp salt, divided 1 16oz box of ziti pasta 3 T butter 3 T flour 3 cups milk 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-6C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}