{"id":1082,"date":"2020-03-28T19:14:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T19:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2020-03-28T19:14:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T19:14:33","slug":"comfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/?p=1082","title":{"rendered":"Comfort"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last night the Minnesota Governor’s stay home order went into effect. Honestly we have been home for a couple weeks already, so at the beginning of the official stay home order I am already feeling antsy. In a lot of ways things have settled a bit and I am hoping with more Minnesotans staying home things will settle down at the grocery stores and some missing items will be stocked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in times like these I am falling back on my comfort foods. I did buy a 25 pound bag of white flour and some smaller bags of whole wheat flour when this all began. While I have been trying to eat more gluten free, Keto meals I rested comfortably in the fact that I could easily make my own bread, noodles, crackers, cakes, cookies, etc. with just this small staple. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So this week I was already tired of chicken breast and ground meat so I decided to do a traditional German dinner with some homemade sausage a friend had given us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Homemade sausage, sauerkraut, spaetlze (German egg noodles) with onion gravy and mustard
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I used to make Spaetlze regularly but finding the right tools to get the egg drop shaped noodles right isn’t so easy. I used to have a pot with a strainer that fit inside and I would push the dough through with the bottom of a cup. Admittedly not the best method and then when I had to throw the pot away I though “no more spaetlze.” Of course at the time I was young and broke and it never occurred to me to buy a spaetlze maker<\/a>. But then I remembered I had a potato ricer<\/a>. It worked beautifully, now I am thinking I will have to bring this back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the recipe I got when I was in Treffpunkt Deutsche (German youth club) at the Germanic American Institute <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spaetlze<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 eggs, beaten
1\/4 cup milk or water
1 cup all-purpose flour
1\/2 tsp salt
Dash of pepper<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mix eggs, milk, flour, 1\/2 tsp salt and pepper. Batter will be thick. Heat 2 quarts of water with a teaspoon of salt to boiling. Press batter through colander a few spoonfulls at a time into the boiling water (I used the potato ricer). Stir occasionally to prevent sticking. Cook until dumplings rise to surface and are tender, about 5 min. then drain (or use a slotted spoon to remove if you need to keep cooking). Garnish with butter and parsley (garlic is also amazing!)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course everyone has different types of food that bring comfort. It is still cold and damp in Minnesota and soups\/stews are what I crave. Proeun puts up with my cravings and I do try to make some foods that are comforting to him as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week I will be working on sourdough<\/a> with all that white flour that I have. And luckily our 4H<\/a> cheese order from Ellsworth Creamery<\/a> still came in. So plenty of good comfort food around here. I can’t wait till the nettle and dandelions are up and my comfort food can switch to some fresh items as well. What foods are bring you comfort right now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some of our favorites from the cheese order<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night the Minnesota Governor’s stay home order went into effect. Honestly we have been home for a couple weeks already, so at the beginning of the official stay home order I am already feeling antsy. In a lot of ways things have settled a bit and I am hoping with more Minnesotans staying home […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}