This casserole makes a quick, well-balanced meal with things you have on hand! If you don't have spinach you can substitute it for a vegetable you do have!
Be sure to buy good-quality dried porcini mushrooms (with large white cross sections). Cheaper ones are dark and shriveled and have an overly pungent aroma, which will give the stew an off taste.
Serve your family this baked bacon, ham, kielbasa, Muir Glen organic diced tomatoes and rice garnished with thyme sprigs to make a hearty dinner for six. Perfect if you love Cajun cuisine.
This is the best baked ziti I have ever tried...and I have tried a lot. This is from the March 2009 issue of Cook's Illustrated and has been thoroughly tested by them.