I have nobody that cooks for me - even when I had a partner, my wives did not cook all that well, so my mother sent me a Viennese cookbook many moons ago, and I learned. I called it "Self-defense cooking", lol. Now that I am on my own, I still like to cook, and I am quite good at it, but I find it boring just to cook for myself, so I need a friend (or friends) to share it. My latest success was a Szekely Goulash
(this comes close to mine: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/hungarian-szeged-or-szekely-goulash-52546811) which fed 25 people at a birthday party.
I don't know if this is useful to you, but the amount of meat can be varied - more Sauerkraut and less meat works also, if you are on a diet.