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Skillet Lasagna

So I've been holding out on you guys... I have a lot going on right now (all good things!), one of which is that we're moving! If all goes according to plan, we'll be closing on our new house at the end of this month. Woot! As excited as I am to have a big backyard and a bigger kitchen, that comes with a price - cleaning and packing up our current house - and our lives for the last 9 years. As you might could imagine, this will be no small feat with two small children underfoot. Caroline loves to "help" me pack, which roughly translates to "ooooh look I found my favorite toy! " (some random ball that she hasn't touched for 2 years) and "Can I play with this book of 2000 stickers that you're trying to pack? I promise not to make a mess!"

So needless to say, the less I have to pack and take with us, the better. Which brings us to this lasagna. I'm trying to pare down my pantry, fridge, and freezer. The less we have, the less we have to pack or throw away. I always seem to have several boxes of half-empty pasta, so this made the perfect dinner to use those up. I actually did have some partially full boxes of lasagna noodles, but really any small or medium pasta would work well here.The beauty of this dish is that it really does taste like lasagna, but it comes together in right around half an hour and is completely cooked one skillet. Joey even ventured to say that he likes it better than traditional lasagna.