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"Hey 'Mantha, eat your baked ziti!"

Hunkering down has meant, so far, a lot of cooking and a lot of eating.  Since we aren't able to really be in contact with others beyond immediate family members, I have been cooking for my kids, even though none of them actually live at home anymore. This baked rigatoni is a fabulous, simple, creamy, comforting and easy pasta dish that everyone in my family loved.  I had the cudighi sausage in the freezer from a previous trip to Ralph's Italian Deli in Ishpeming.  This was the perfect use for it. Our first confirmed case of COVID-19 is here in Houghton County.  We are not at the top of the curve yet; likely not for a while.  It will get worse before it gets better.  Stay safe, fellow foodies. Oh, the quote in the title is a funny one liner that has become an idiom whenever I make rigatoni or ziti in my kitchen.  My cousin Joe told his daughter, Samantha,  to get in line for dinner one Christmas Even at my house probably about 12 years ago, ...