i'm slugging vodka and eating leftover spätzle. there's a quiet, unostentatious german restaurant near where i work that makes spätzle i could happily live off of for the rest of my life. it's that damn good.

You should try "Frankie's 'lil Europe" at the corner of Garland and Buckner in Dallas. Awesome spätzle, among other tasty bits.

Tell me more about that thing that I'm too lazy to find umlauts for. I've always been curious about it, but I don't think I've ever had any. Is it like kugel?

you can also spell it spaetzle. they're basically egg noodles. what i was eating last night was actually krautspätzle: spätzle mixed with sauerkraut, onions, ham, and maybe some other stuff. i think i've been there once, antigone. but i might be confused.

I seem to remember eating egg noodles with beef stew a lot in Germany. Is that also spaetzle?

I'm not eating anything as romantic as inter-continental cuisine, I'm getting ready to chow down on good ole McDonalds egg mcmuffin and hashbrowns, certainly not healthy, but regardless, mighty damn tastey! [And, technically, it might qualify as inter-continental cuisine, as I'm sure its readily available in Germany] I wish I had some leiderhosen.

I made spätzle once while dating the baroness when I lived in Munich. You take the very basic flour/milk/salt/egg dough and squeeze it through what looks like a giant garlic press into a pot of boiling water. It's kind of bland without some gravy, cheese, or whatnot on top.

from that description, it sounds like spätzle is more like a cross between a noodle and a dumpling. i think that's why i like it - it's lighter than a noodle and makes a great "base" for those german dishes. blast from the past, markus.

Antigone , it is in Casa Linda area?? My grandparent lived in that area.

I grew up there. Forest Hills.

dig it, my spätzle-makers were voted one of the "best bites of 2007" by the fort worth star-telegram: A yummy taste of Europe Greenwood German Restaurant No polkas, just great food in a civilized setting, thanks to Offenbach native Peter Gruenewald and his Yugoslavian* wife Vlatka. Try the sauerbraten with buttery noodles, spaetzle with smoky ham and sauteed asparagus. spätzle über alles! *don't nobody be pedantic - it was yugoslavia when they married.

Antigone. I used to live in Lakewood area on the side of White Rock Lake and my Grandparent used to live on the other side of White Rock Lake. Do you know the story about a lady drowned in the lake a long time ago?

Yes. She would catch a ride with you on Lawther, then when you got to her destination the only thing left in your back seat would be a puddle of water.

I knew it! :-)

Why? Were you the one that killed her long ago?

Antigone,she died a long, long time ago , long before I was born. since they found a wet puddle of water. This may indicate that some one was sitting on the back seat where she was driving at that time, might be a killer! Antigone, I think you did it...

CHUPACABRA?

I got her wet, if that's what you mean.

No... I mean, I think you strangled her....

The only thing I choked was the chicken.

I was just...kidding :-)

So was the chicken. I choked a chicken in Reno...just to watch him die...

CHUPACABRA!

JACK THE CHUPACABRA!!!!!!!!!!!! WHOOO HOOOO!!!! L.M.A.O!!!!!!!!!!! BWHAHAHAHAHA!

what does this have to do with the price of spätzle in texas?

I think they are implying that you can add poultry to your dish. Tastes just like chicken.

It's all making me want spatzle, or spaetzle. I just looked up a vegetarian recipe.

Hindu ppl are vegetarian ppl too...B.T.W. Happy New Year to all of you!! including Chupacabra!

you are hindu, pepper? neato i could eat a lot of things right now. hurray for the new year and staying in with friends.