Orzo Casserole with Vodka Sauce

So my first meal that I cooked when I got back home was a kind of Orzo casserole (or "hot-dish" for you Minnesotans)  made with vodka sauce and ground turkey. Like everything I cook, I just looked through our cupboards to find random ingredients that might taste good together. If some of the ingredients seem kind of random, it is because they are -- I'm just trying to use what we have.

No picture of the meal today unfortunately, I hadn't thought that far ahead.

Ingredients:

• 1 lb Ground Turkey
• Sliced Prosciutto
• Banana Peppers
• Vodka
• 1 can of Bertolli Vodka Sauce
• 1 lb of Orzo pasta
• Butter
• Grated Parmesan Cheese
• shaved Italian cheeses

So here's the deal: 

In a pan, cook up the ground turkey, some prosciutto and banana peppers. Pour some vodka into the mix while the meat is cooking to kick it up a notch. Dash some Italian seasoning in there. Once the turkey is cooked, stir in the can of vodka sauce, turn down the heat, and let simmer.

In another pot, have your boiling water rolling, and cook your Orzo, per the instructions on the box. 

Once the Orzo is done cooking, strain it and throw in some butter and grated parm into the mix while it is still hot.

Now in a large casserole dish, pour a base layer of the pasta sauce in the bottom. On top of this, add a layer of the buttered Orzo pasta so that it covers all the sauce. Add some more Parmesan cheese to the top of the pasta layer. Then, pour the remaining sauce over the top of the Orzo. Hopefully, this is not spilling out of the dish yet. on top of this, lay down some prosciutto slices and generously sprinkle some of the shaved Italian cheese mix (Parmesan and mozzarella) on top of that. 

Stick this casserole into an oven heated to 400 degrees F, and cook until the cheese starts to brown and the prosciutto is sizzling. When done, set it on the table, and enjoy! It should be kind of layered, almost like a lasagna. We ate it with bowls, as it is kind of sloppy. It could serve about 6 people in theory. There were four of us, and we ate most of it, with a good amount left over for my lunch the next day.