You gotta do the cooking by the book. You know you can't be lazy!

In among the various end-of-year parties I managed to inherit around $50 of food and food-ingredients from a friend who was moving out of his apartment--it' s a good mix of stuff, from pesto to cornstarch to fish sauce. Which is great, except that it's also a lot of duplicate stuff and I only need so much olive oil and white vinegar.

As such, I am looking for recipes which will use up these ingredients, or even just favorite recipes in general. All suggestions are appreciated, as long as they are vegetarian and thus do not contain animal-related items.

*is a dork*

You know you may love your cat too much when you go to use the toilet, look down, and think, "Aww, kitty footprints. But I don't want to urinate on them! They might wash away!"