Did you know the easiest homemade pasta recipe is actually from… Germany?!

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1. You can also scrape the doug from a cutting board with a knife or from a plate with a spoon. That's how I learnt it. 😊

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2. Is milk ever used in spaetzel? I’ve seen some recipes with it

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3. Späetzel is delicious and great with cheese or buttered sauces and you can add various things, it’s great.

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4. Looks comforting. I’m going to need garlic bread.

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5. Spaetzlefied Cacio e Pepe is inedible. Also just mixed with mornay and baked like mac and cheese. Best struggle meal ever. I have an old spaetzle board my great great grandmother brought from Germany that has somehow survived her immigration to Tennessee then Texas in the 19th century. I have only used it once and I managed to gouge it with a cleaver when I was doing the dishes so I can’t bring myself to hunt it back out of my storage unit and risk damaging it yet again. I’ve looked at several modern versions in kitchen supply stores but they were all smoothly finished by machine and wouldn’t have created the same craggy texture the old one did so I haven’t gotten one that’s functional yet. I make do with a slotted ladle I found at a Willian’s Sonoma factory outlet. It works great when I’m making spaetzle from a loose batter but I kind of prefer something slightly doughier the Old German one was great. You just put the board on the edge of a pot of boiling water and flicked bits of the dough off of a grooved/roughened section of wood to get totally randomly sized bits. it made PERFECT little noodles and it was easy to do literally hundreds of them in like 5 minutes.

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6. Spätzle is my favorite pasta 😊

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