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When we were in Germany we had a dish called Spaetzle  - a dumpling like noodle covered in cheese sauce. We’ve tried to duplicate the recipe since being home, but the cheese sauce never comes out quite like we want it. The noodle however are WONDERFUL and so easy that’s it’s a little ridiculous.

The noodles are think and soft. mmmm so delicious. 

Here is the recipe.

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup milk
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon pepper

(if you are making these noodles for soup, leave out the nutmeg)

Mix all the ingredients together until you get a smooth dough. Bring 6 cups of water to boil in a deep pot, I like to add a chicken bouillon cube for every two cups of water. It gives the noodles just little extra flavor. Because I don’t have a spaetzle maker, I poured the dough into a zip lock bag and cut a little snip off of one corner.

Squeeze the your bag of dough over the boiling water until you have a string of dough the desired length of your noodle. Then with a clean pair of kitchen shears, just cut the sting! For the soup I made longer noodles. When we make meat or cheese dishes with them, we like plump short noodles.

The dough will sink to the bottom of your boiling pan. When it is cooked through it will float back up to the top.

As you cut more noodles into the pot, scoop the cooked noodles that have risen to the top in to another bowl of cold water to cool them. Then move then over to a strainer.

 

 When we make meat or cheese dishes with them, we like plump short noodles like these. YUM.

We tossed them in to some HM chicken noodle soup and they went together wonderful.  We're still working on the cheese sauce. :)

The train ride from Vienna to Prague was seven hours. Looong. So we listened to audio books, watched shows on the iPad, slept as much as we could and looked out the window. 

But we finally made it. :)
Here are a few things we saw.

Powder Tower. Built in 1475 under the reign of King Vladislav II Jagiello in case you were wondering.

 We went to Old Town Square or Staromestske

The statue of Jan Hus - The Martin Luther of the Czech Republic (Martin Luther as in religious reformation, not African American rights...)

The Clock Town and Astronomical Clock. Hundreds of people gather here every hour on the hour hear the clock chime and statues of the 12 apostles nod their head in approval.

The Church of Our Lady before Tyn

The tower leading to Charles Bridge from Old Town Square

A view of Prague castle from the bridge

A man with a monkey music cart. :)

a little street

The love lock bridge. Lover write or engrave their names and the year on a lock, then attached it to this bridge. How fun!

The Lennon Wall. Very cool.

More of Prague to come!

Schonbrunn Palace and the Gloriette

The Gebiet Market

Eating at the Schnitzelwirt - trying Schnitzel. Good thing we ordered two.....

St. Stephens Platz and Stephens Dome

We toured the treasury of the Hofburg Imperial Palace

The Austrian Crown Jewels

I will take one of each please

Reliquary with a Nail from the Cross

This was one the most interesting things I think we saw. Its not very clear in this picture, but housed in the center is supposedly the nail that pierced the right hand of Jesus Christ. True? False? Who really knows. But it has been inspiring people for hundreds of years.