Grandma Guarnaschelli's Lasagna with mini beef meatballs

While my family and I thought this very good they said they liked my homemade lasagna better. The mini meatballs are a bit time consuming but I loved her tip of spreading the meat out and up the sides of a large bowl then sprinkling other ingredients over to evenly distribute throughout while mixing. I couldn't find veal so just used all lean ground beef. I also subbed cottage cheese for ricotta since we like that better.