Tasty Tues-- What's for dinner Oct. 25th?

[sunshine]

We're having:

chicken and noodles (homemade noodles)
peas from the garden
jello with fruit (from the orchart)

[Admin]

~goulash
~tossed salad
~garlic bread
~fruit

[braided-rug]

Never had goulash, that I can remember, and never got the hang of spatzen, if that is what you mean by noodles.

We had Aussie meat pies, beans and mashed potato.

[sunshine]

Here's how I make homemade noodles. . . now off to figure out what "spatzen" means

HOMEMADE EGG NOODLES

2 eggs
4 tbsp. water
Flour
2 tsp. salt

Mix egg and water; add enough flour until doughy. Flour surface; roll out thin. cut into strips, whatever width and length you desire. Dry 2 hours.

[Admin]

BR, goulash is elbow macaroni pasta, with tomatoes and tomato sauce, and ground beef. I use Italian spice in ours and we like ours thin so it is saucy. You can put onions in it as well.

Your meat pies sound good.

[braided-rug]

Well, I've eaten goulash at least a 1,000 times then! lol.

We call that spaghetti bolognaise. I always thought goulash was like some sauerkraut related thing!

Tomato sauce may be our tomato paste, it is thick. We always put garlic in everything around here, whatever we can put it into it goes into.

I think spatzen is the same, only not dried.

[braided-rug]

On second thoughts your recipe does sound like homemade pasta sunshine.

[braided-rug]

So basically you both had Italian meals. One chicken fettucine, and the other spaghetti bolognise with garlic bread.

www.kitchenproject.com/kpboard/recipes/Spatzen.htm

You can have baked ribs covered with water and throw the dough in the water, an hour for the ribs, then add sauerkraut and later the spatzen, although I haven't done it in the water yet. I am learning as I go along. The first ones I did on the stove I wasn't completely happy with.

[sunshine]

Well, I always think of fettucine as having cheese sauce, and our chicken and noodles is with just broth. . . .

Have you ever had German fried noodles? Yummy? My grandmother from germany used to make those. . . . soooo good!

[braided-rug]

No I haven't, but I try alot of German things so I could try those.

Fettucine is strips of pasta. I am amazed at why the two countries use similiar pasta and use different names for them.

I usually buy spaghetti, macaroni, sometimes elbow macaroni, trivelle (twists), sometimes farfelle (bows), penne (small tubes with the ends cut at an angle), fettucine, rigatoni sometimes (larger tubes, but not too large) sometimes shells.

We have fettucine carbonara or alfredo, maybe that is what you were thinking of. It is the fettucine with carbonara sauce, which is apparently bacon and eggs the Italians say, but usually in America or Australia it would have cream.

I made homemade egg noodles at school in a holiday program once. I loved it. The Italians mainly do it here and own pasta machines to do the cutting for them. I have one but don't use it. I would like the kids to have a go. Sometimes they get to do it at school I think.

[braided-rug]

I know what you mean about broth. We tend to cheat in Australia and buy chicken noodle soup in a packet.

[lynn]

yum, Denise! I'm printing this out. I have long wanted to try my hand at making my own noodles. I have some cooked chicken in the fridge.....so I may just try it tomorrow.

Thanks and love your title....Tasty Tuesday!