Skillet Lasagna

This lasagna recipe is even EASIER than my lazy lasagna recipe.  And it is sooo good!  Here is the original recipe that serves 6.

1 lb ground beef
small onion, chopped
garlic, 3 cloves
1 can diced tomatoes, undrained
1 1/4 cup water
8 oz tomato sauce
1 TBS parsley
1 tsp basil
1 tsp oreganol
1 tsp salt
2 1/2 cups broken lasagna noodles
1 cup cottage cheese
1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
1 egg
shredded mozzarella

In a skillet (with a lid) brown the beef with the onions and garlic.  Add tomatoes, water, tomato sauce, spices and pasta.  Bring to a boil stirring occasionally.  Reduce heat, cover and simmer 20 minutes til pasta is tender.
Combine cottage cheese, parmasan cheese and egg.  Drop on pasta by spoonfuls.  Cover and cook 5 more minutes.  Sprinkle with cheese til it melts.

I generally just adapt recipes to my way of cooking, like not measuring spices and putting in what I like to cook with.  Tonight I made this for the missionaries and this is how I adapted it, and it was my best batch of it yet!

2 lbs ground beef
1 onion, chopped
1 or 2 tsp minced garlic
1 can chopped tomatoes, undrained
1 large can of spaghetti sauce
2-3 cups water (I just made sure the noodles were covered)
broken lasagna noodles....I didn't measure, just put them in til it looked good to me.  You could use other kinds of pasta.  I am thinking of trying spaghetti noodles sometime.
So, I got the beef and onions sauted and browned and then added the rest of the ingredients up to this point and got it boiling good then reduced the heat and simmered it 20 min til pasta was tender.
Then I spread a good layer of grated cheese on that and dolloped the cottage cheese mixture which was the same as the original recipe only I doubled it.  And then sprinkled a bunch more grated cheese over the top of that and let it cook 5-10 min. with the lid and then another 5-10 min. without the lid to let it thicken up good.  It turned out amazing!!
I served it with Susie's French bread and a green salad.