It's a love meme!

Because November is hard for lots of us, and in particular is something I find hard (my not-quite-month of mourning begins tomorrow, officially); because it's spring in the southern hemisphere and the days just keep getting shorter in the northern; because I talked to my counsellor yesterday about all of the shapes and forms that value takes.

This post will close to new nominations at the end of the month (because November), though I'll keep unscreening comments after that point if any new ones do come in.

Love meme

♥ Nominate yourself or someone else, anonymously or logged-in, by putting your/their username in the subject line of a comment to this entry. If you do not know for certain the person's preferred pronouns and they do not list them on their DW profile, please use gender neutral pronouns as a default. Other people can then reply to that comment with goopy declarations of love, reasons that person is awesome, sparkly expressions of admiration, etc! All comments are screened, and I'll unscreen them as they arrive. (So, if your comment doesn't appear right away, please be patient; I'll leave my online status at the bottom of this post to keep people updated on whether I'm unscreening or not.)

♥ If you don't want to be nominated, or don't want comments referring to certain things [body/appearance, wrong pronouns, etc] to appear on your thread, please let me know; I won't unscreen any such comment or nomination. If I make a mistake in unscreening something, if you want a comment to your thread unscreened or deleted, if you have any concerns you need to raise -- please just tell me, and I'll attend to it as soon as I can. If there are any inappropriate comments made to a thread, I will check with the person being referred to before unscreening.

♥ Share the love: please do send people over here (and to your own thread!) Words-and-deeds it up if you like, but that's not obligatory!

♥ These guidelines are modeled on dingsi's love meme guidelines, with modifications by jjhunter and wording lifted from surpassingly.

♥ That's it -- happy posting!

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[food] Spaetzle!

I had my second attempt at making Spaetzle! It worked! (The last time I tried was in my... second year at university? It did not go well, and I was discouraged.) Both my useless ex and sebastienne nommed it enthusiastically, once I'd got my act together with respect to working out the best way to use the tools I had to do the things I wanted to.

I pretty much used this recipe from BavarianKitchen.com -

400g fine/00-grade flour
1 tsp salt
3-4 eggs
250ml water

Flour and salt combined. Eggs added one by one and beaten in. Water added gradually and beaten in likewise. Mixed well, then set aside for 20 minutes.

Pot of water brought to rolling boil. Batter dropped through colander to form small droplets in the water, one ladle at a time, encouraged through with a spoon. After each ladleful rinse out the colander and leave it to dry; once the Spaetzle are floating, move them out into a seive or colander or something to dry. Repeat until you've used all the batter.

Congratulations! You have Spaetzle. Now you want to do something more interesting with them.

So what I did was: before I started making the batter, I stuck a finely sliced onion in some butter over high heat and got it brown and crispy. I left it to sit while I put everything else together. Then I dropped another spoonful of butter in the pan and stuck in the Spaetzle, letting them sit and brown before flipping them over. Once they are sufficiently at-least-in-part browned, dump a bunch of grated cheese and some finely-chopped parsley and some ground pepper over the top, and then it is FOOD.

(Served, on this occasion, with some token green beans and some much-less-token red cabbage cooked with cloves and apple.)