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[_ducks]

Okay, you. I need your help. I want to cook more, but I'm shamefully inexperienced at it and very tentative. But being on my own means it's okay if whatever I'm making goes horribly wrong so I'm trying to be more adventurous

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[cindala]

For Kugel
1 lb. medium or wide noodles, cooked and drained
6 eggs, beaten
1 pint sour cream
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 lb. butter or margarine, melted
¾ lb. cream cheese, softened
1 lb cottage cheese
Optional: Add extra spices to batter: cinnamon nutmeg, etc

For Topping
1/4 lb. butter or margarine
4 cups corn flakes, crushed
1 cup sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon

Preheat oven to 350*

Beat together eggs and sour cream. Add sugar, vanilla, and butter/margarine, keep beating. Add softened cream cheese, beat some more. Add cottage cheese, get arrested for battery from beating the food so much.

Spread cooked Noodles evenly on the bottom of a greased 9x13 pan. Pour cheesy goodness over noodles. Mix together.

*Optional: Cover with foil and let it sit in fridge overnight and bake it next day.

Make topping. Spread topping evenly over kugel.

Bake for 1 hour.

Enjoy!!

Tastes like mac & cheese, but a more desserty version. Any time I make this one it disappears fast when served to my friends. They especially love the topping. Keeps and reheats well, too.

[cindala]

More recipes may be coming, this one's just saved to my hard drive. Also, I'm American so temps are in fahrenheit, and I'm too lazy to figure out the equivalent, sorry! This also serves 20 comfortably so feel free to figure out proportions for a smaller batch (or make and freeze and take out small portions when you want to eat it).

[cindala]

ok so I've nothing better to do:

Great grandma's banana bread (super easy and delicious- what else are you gonna do with brown bananas?)
1 cup Sugar
1/2 cup butter
2 eggs
1.5 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
pinch salt
1 tsp vanilla

mix above ingredients together. Take 2 good sized brown or spotty bananas and mash in a dish. Add a little lemon juice (optional). Add to mixture of all other ingredients. Mix well. Pour in 8"x8" greased pan. Bake at 350*F for 30 mins. Enjoy!

[cindala]

I'm also going to recommend a cookbook that's out of print but that you can buy on Amazon.coms marketplace for used books. Its called "Follow Your Heart's Vegetarian Soup Cookbook" every soup in it is 100% vegetarian, thick and chunky, and works as the entire meal. My dad whose a major carnivore loves all of the soups and doesn't even miss the meat. I'm vegetarian and think all of the soups are amazing. Also, I used to live on my own and would make a soup and it'd last me a week.

It'd be great for you as a former veggie as well. Also, most of the soups are easy and they've included easy to follow instructions in the front of the book in case you get confused. Sorry, its once again American made, so you'll have to convert some of the instructions, but as they're all made on a stove it shouldn't have too much for you to have to convert. I just looked at 5 recipes and none of them had anything that should make you do any math.

Hope you find a copy and enjoy! And if not, I was about to start typing some of them up for you and realized it'd be better for you to get your own copy, so feel free to let me know if you want to try any of the soups and I'll give you a recipe for one of the best!

[_ducks]

Thanks for all your suggestions. The Kugel sounds delicious. And banana bread recipes always come in handy, because I like my bananas only-just-ripe, so I always end up with a few that have gone softer than I like and I have to work out what to do with them.

I will keep an eye out for that recipe book! I have gone back to eating meat but I don't need it in every meal, and I'm always happy for new veggie ideas.