Pumpkin Baked Ziti

I love fall.  Or, I love the food that comes in the fall... like pumpkin, for example... it's just inappropriate to eat pumpkin in the summer, but it's delicious.  So now it is fall, and I can eat pumpkin without being inappropriate.  Better yet, it's fall break so I actually had "time" to cook.  Kind of.  Anyways, I kicked off my fall cooking season with Paula Deen's "Pumpkin Baked Ziti."  Keeping to my tradition, I mixed up the recipe just a smidgen.  I used fat-free half and half in place of the heavy cream.  Otherwise, I used the healthier options that Paula has for the recipe.  Also, I didn't mess with ramekins.  I made this a one-dish thing except for the pot I cooked the ziti in.  Brilliant, right?  I mean, who wants to mess with ramekins? And who wants to mess with cooking the sausage, taking it out, cooking the other stuff, and adding the sausage back?  Not me.  It still turned out delicious and creamy and wonderful.  Everyone enjoyed it! (But who wouldn't? Paula + pumpkin = two of the best things ever).  Here it is with steam-in-the-bag sugar snap peas on the side:

Okay, it's not much to look at...but, trust me, you want to eat it.

I think that's all I have for now!  I better start working on the homework I've been neglecting over break.  Oops.