Meaty Ballzagna!

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs! They are EVERYWHERE! You want to tell me "OMG my Great/Grandma/Mom/Aunte has the best recipe in world!" story, but I'd rather just make it up instead. If you know, have/had or read the meatball book, you get a million extra credit points (now bake yourself some cookies!)

So what is this about? It's about two things we love. Meatballs & Lasagna. Yes, Italians everywhere are going crazy over this! Ok ok, I have no clue if this already exists but we just made it up and not we are going to try it!

I started by making the meatballs which was pretty easy in itself, but I searched a bit for "grandmas special recipe" for a few tips.

2 eggs
1 lb of your ground meat choice (BEEF HERE!!!)
(use your imagination here with the spices or make grandmas fave!)
pepper
garlic salt
garlic powder
fresh red pepper
oregano
2 slices of toast made into crumbs. Double toasted them on light just to get them crisp then crumbled them.
1 clove of garlic (baked at 300 for 10 min approx)

The garlic will become soft and just squeeze out of the skin. Chop, mash, and make it into small pieces along with the onion.

Mix all together in a bowl (beat eggs first duh), roll into balls and cook in a skillet at medium heat. The trick here is to make them golf ball size or smaller as the lasagna is going to get very tall!

This is after only one layer


Once the balls are done you can build your Meaty Ballzagna!
layer of sauce, noodles, sauce, meatballs, count how many you have, take half and space them out across the first layer, add a dallop of cottage cheese on top of each ball or where necessary. Sprankle on the mozzarella cheese then layer again with the noodles. Two layers and it will probably be overflowing like mine. Toss in the oven 350 for 35-45 min. Drink some wine while you wait.

Done! Now enjoy your Meaty Ballzagna!!! Don't forget It's always Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs!