Cassie hasn't been eating dairy because it bothers Hanna.  The problem with that is Ziti needs cheese and a lot of it.  So to make it so I can have a ton of cheese on my Ziti and Cassie can limit her cheese, I came up with the idea of a Personal Pan Ziti.

A Personal Pan Ziti is supposed to be made by you to your liking.  I am going to give you a recipe, but this is a recipe that I used and do not expect you to follow it exactly.  You can easily not put in certain items and put in anything else that you feel will make it better.  The first few ingredients are things you should put in, just so you can call it Ziti, but even those are negotiable.

Ingredients:

• Ziti, cooked just shy of how long the box suggests.  It will continue to cook when you bake it, so you don't want it fully done yet.
• Marinara sauce
• Mozzarella cheese
• Ricotta cheese
• Parmesan cheese
• Eggplant, chopped up into cubes the size of dice or you can go with strips
• Spinach
• Jalapenos, I used pickled.  You probably can go with fresh, but i would dice it up small
• Basil
• Dried oregano
• Small loaf pans, I got a set of 3 made of aluminum in the baking section.

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350
2. While the pasta is cooking, heat up the sauce and saute the eggplant in some olive oil until lightly brown
3. When everything is done its time to assemble your PPZ.  This can be done any way you want - this is how I did it.
4. Spread a layer of sauce on the bottom of the loaf pan to prevent sticking
5. Then start layering. I layered the ziti, eggplant, ricotta, mozzarella, jalapenos, ziti eggplant, sauce, mozzarella, parmesan and then oregano
6. Cassie did very similar but she didn't use the jalapenos and she used less cheese because she is still cautious about using a lot of cheese.  She might have also used more spinach because she likes it a lot.
7. Put the PPZs in the oven for about 30 mins.

On a sad note, my camera broke.  So the picture above is by Cassie using her camera.