Recipes & Nutrition Bits

that is.. homemade, gourmet Käsespätzle sauce and store bought Spätzle. How could I spend another hour making the noodles when there’s perfectly good, fresh Spätzle in the store.. calling my name, Hees saa?

It’s fantastic! I could eat buckets full of this stuff. I jazzed up a typical cheese sauce recipe with Max’s “Ente Mehlschwitze”(Duck rue) (about a 30g/30g flour to fat ratio) and a splash of Vermouth before adding 250 ml Milk and 200 ml of water.

The story goes back to about two weeks ago during a dinner engagement at Max’s. He pulled out all the stops to impress us with a roasted duck and traditional Bavarian fixings. One thing he forgot to make in his all-too-tiny kitchen was a sauce for the duck and potato dumplings. So we together whipped up something of half-ready Roux with all of the fat to make enough for two gallon of sauce.

I rationed out just about the right amount of Roux for the evening and coyly asked Max if I could take some left over Roux home with me (Roux stores forever frozen and about 1 month in the fridge). I imaging he thought I was just trying to help him clean up the leftover chaos, but that stuff he had in the pot was worth hours of sweat over precious flavor and potentially heavenly sauces.

I could barely contain myself when he gave me a jelly jar full. Score! Still, because of time constraints (sauces take forever but the results are worth it) my sauce that evening was a bit too flourly. Still it was fun spending time with Max and Veronika.

My Käsespätzle sauce has about 150 g of Gouda and about two slices of some cheese called ‘old Amsterdam’, (a hard cheese, mildly sharp) but you could stick to Gouda or add some cheddar if you’re lucky. I added sliced cherry tomatoes and green onions to a pan of hot butter before browning the ready-made Spätzle and smothering it was my cheese sauce.

Did I mention? This isn’t diet food. It’s next to heart-attack food. Make sure you have your stationary bike near by if you attempt to make this dish. Happy Monday and Happy Eating.

P.S. Yes, I could tell you how to make homemade Spätzle but that burns too many calories for this post.