This is a traditional Polish recipe.

For 4 servings:

1 lb. egg noodles- wide or twist. Klusky noodles are best
2 large containers of cottage cheese
4 large onions
3/4 lb. butter

Fry onion in butter until brown. Turn off heat.
Boil noodles and drain.
Add noodles to onion/butter, mix well and add more butter to taste
Add cottage cheese, sprinkle with black pepper (if you desire)
Mix well and cover for 5 to 10 min.

I'm watching "The French Chef with Julia Child" DVD - reruns of her 1962 cooking shows. Those were the days when Julia was bringing French cooking to the ignorant American masses and she was more down to earth and a little awkward.

They didn't do a lot of editing on these shows so if she dropped the cake on the stove burners in the process of getting it out of the pan, she'd make some comment like 'Oh well, you're alone in the kitchen. Just gather it up and put it together and nobody the wiser.'

She suggests that you assemble all the ingredients on a big cookie sheet so you know you have them all before you start and you can see if you have forgotten to put anything into the batter. I've done that before, but my common mistake has been when I was trying to cut a recipe in half, I'd forget for one of the ingredients, and then I'd have to make it a full recipe.

My mother baked 30 loaves of white bread at a time, and always wrote out the amount of each ingredient for the quantity she was making, a very good idea. She also pre-measured the amount of flour it was supposed to require into a bowl so she wouldn't lose count of the cups of flour in the heat of mixing up the recipe.

I'm going to go make these noodles, but by the time I cook up that bunch of onions, I might take a right turn and make onion soup instead.