This recipe is the best. My Grandma Geoffrion (my mom’s mom) used to make this and it’s terrific!  I suggest if you are trying to lose weight NOT to eat this. Substituting for low-fat ingredients just takes away from the great taste!

Grease 2qt casserole dish. Cook 2 1/2 cups egg noodles, drain. Blend with 3TBSP butter, cover with clean dish towel and put in warm place.

In a big bowl, mix 8oz Breakstone cottage cheese, 6oz softened Philadelphia cream cheese, and 1/3 cup Breakstone sour cream. Add 1/3 cup minced onion, 2tbsp chopped green pepper, 1tbsp pimiento, 1 tbsp fresh chives, 1/2 tsp salt and 1/2 tsp Accent. Mix together and set aside.

Brown 1 pound ground beef (I use 93% fat-free to cut down on the grease). Drain fat. Stir in 2 cups Hunts tomato sauce, 1/2tsp salt, 1/2 tsp Lea & Perin’s Worchestire sauce and 3(or more - to taste) drops Tabasco Sauce.  Stir.

Now it’s time to layer: Put meat sauce on bottom of casserole(just a little) - half the noodles over that, next all of the cheese mixture, then the rest of the noodles over that and finally the rest of the meat sauce over that. Make sure the noodle are covered. bake covered at 350F for 50-60 minutes. Uncover the last 5-10 minutes.

ENJOY!