Originally it was planned to make enchiladas but we didn't have all the ingredients, so we went for the next best option: Kaese Spaetzle! It's a German specialty consisting of homemade pasta in a thick cheese sauce. Well, traditionally it's obviously supposed to be cow cheese but by now y'all should know that I'm not going to be a dumbass and use cow cheese :)
My Mom started preparing the dough for the pasta (for 4 people) by mixing 700 g (according to my online
Spaetzle maker (Google)
converter that's around 17.5 ounces) of spelt flour, 700 ml (~ 3 cups) of water (it was a little bit too runny so you might want to use a bit less), 2 tablespoons more of spelt flour (you can also use corn starch or any other kind of flour of course), a pinch of salt, pepper and a few tablespoons (just try until it starts to taste a bit like something) of dried vegetable broth. Then moving on to the cheese sauce I poured some rice milk into a frying pan, because...well...because my Mommy told me to do so haha. I was quite skeptic if this was going to turn out anything like it's supposed to, because rice milk has a significantly lower level of fat than cow's milk or even soy milk. Since I didn't have soy milk I just had to use rice milk. You wait until the milk is boiling and then you sprinkle the (vegan) cheese (I used the same kind as I wrote about two posts ago) in the pan. I used about six slices of it and in the beginning it really didn't look too well, because it seemed like it didn't want to melt the way I needed it to. After waiting, stirring and letting it boil a while more it turned out quite gooey and cheesy! While working on the sauce you might want to get the water boiling for the Spaetzle. To make this kind of pasta you actually need a Spaetzle maker, but you can get one of those in pretty much every department store or you just improvise. Glazed onions taste really (and I mean REALLY) great with this meal also, so if you can live with shedding a few tears over this meal you should cut up some onions and
gently fry them in a pan. You place the Spaetzle maker on top of the pot of boiling water and just slice them right in there. Let them cook until they come swimming back on top and then put them in the sauce pan. Stir, season with salt, pepper, the onions & a few cut up tomatoes and TA DAAAAA you have some cheesy, traditional German Kaese Spaetzle with a hint of American Mac'n'Cheese.
I hope I don't bore you guys with these food posts. If you ever try this recipe I'd love if you would let me know how it went! Or not. That's fine too... Seriously though, you won't regret trying this out! Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you around here again someday! Katie Lynn :)
It's no secret to anyone who knows me that I spend quite a bit of my free time (= about 85%) on YouTube. Maybe that's weird, but I don't think so. It's not like I pass my days watching funny cat videos (not that there's anything wrong with that), but I watch all kinds of videos. From music videos over cooking shows to documentaries, there are so many different facets of channels on YT. In case you ever get bored or just want to check out what's out there, I'll introduce you guys to my Top 5 favorite YT channels out of the 123 I'm subscribed to so far. Admittedly, I'll probably end up mentioning a few more channel names as I'm having a hard time deciding which ones to include and which ones not to include. But let's get going! (These are in no special order) 1. JennaMarbles (& MaxNoSleeves)
Jenna Marbles is a comedian who talks about literally everything. If you have little kids around and would not like them to learn several cuss words in a period of about 3 minutes, you might want to make sure they are out of hearing reach. I have always enjoyed her videos, but lately she seems to be running out of ideas which I guess is just natural. My all time favorite video of hers is probably this one (a song about being a grown up) to your right. MaxNoSleeves is Jenna Marbles ex boyfriend as after starring in her videos quite frequently he eventually started his own channel and the style of the videos is pretty much the same as hers. As you might have already figured out by his channel name, he barely ever wears a shirt that still has its sleeves. He does not have too many videos yet, but I really enjoyed this one called "Cell Phone Problems":
2. JacksGap This channel was originally created to show what this certain Jack is going to be up to during his gap year. Things went viral after he introduced his twin Finn and since then the two English boys have become quite popular (most likely also due to the fact that they are not the ugliest people on the planet). I was introduced to this channel by a girl who was in my English class
last semester and in case you're reading this: Thank you :D! They do all sorts of funny videos and my favorite so far was their "British Slang" collab video with Tyler Oakley (you'll be introduced to him later on):
3. Tyler Oakley He is just so adorable and funny, PLUS he's from Michigan so I'm basically besties with him (he just doesn't know about it). I don't know what else I could say about him...he's just awesome and the only kinds of videos I like more than his are the ones with him AND Jack & Finn! My favorite video of Tyler is probably the one in which he (sarcastically) explains why he loves the TLC show "Honey Boo Boo":
4. Zombie Gate This is a vegan cooking channel owned by John the Vegan Zombie. I'm not into all of this Zombie Apocalypse stuff, but he incorporates just the right amount of it in his cooking videos to make them fun and not like any others. He has lots of recipes, but he takes quite a while to make new videos. My favorite video would probably be one of his Blooper Reels, but from the ones about food I really like the Tamales one (although I haven't even tried this recipe out yet):
5. Louis Theroux
Louis Theroux is a journalist from the BBC that makes very interesting documentaries. He doesn't have all of them on his YT channel, but from the ones he does have on there, the one I like best is the one about the Westboro Baptist Church. You can also just type his name into the search bar and you will find more documentaries that he doesn't have on his channel yet.
Alright, these are my favorite 5 channels, but like I said above I'll tell you about a few more that I watch regularly.
