German pancakes! and the best thing ever, spaetzle!
The recipe is basically the same, eggs milk and all purpose flour and a little salt to taste, I have HBP so I skip any salt.
For pancakes, shoot for the consistency of like a really really stout beer maybe as thick as like, warm honey.
For spaetzle you want, dough so way way more flour and honestly you can almost leave the milk out entirely.
Warm a nice skillet, a little oil, and ladel out the pancake batter just as thin as possible, and just barely cover the bottom of the skillet in batter, flip once, and on to the next pancake. I believe the french call these crepes? But screw the frogs my family is from Germany so these are German pancakes by george. Of course where they live France is an afternoon drive, about 1 hour to the border.
Use your imagination with the pancakes, we usually just sprinkled some sugar, honey, jam, molasses, whatever we had on them, rolled them up and ate them. They also make a damn fine soup! cut them up, make a broth, throw in whatever, taters, onions, bacon bits, nothing at all, whatever, and make a soup.
For the spaetzle, flatten out the dough and cut the smallest strips you can cut, I've also used a cake icing piping bag and the THINNEST tip I could to press it out, and cook them like any noodle in boiling water with lots of salt and some sort of oil to help it not stick. When they float, they're done.
With the spaetzle make a nice BROWN gravy, just put anything in there you like, chopped peppers, meat, mushrooms, onions, or make it just plain and brown whatever floats your boat.
Or make (my german spelling is atrocious)Verheirateh (marriage basically). Make a nice clear broth, add the spaetzle, chunks of potato, bits of bacon and some onions. Salt and spice to taste. This should be a fairly soupy soup, not like, chili more like chicken noodle soup.
The recipe already given for potato salad is pretty much what my mom does, and remember, WARM, not hot but definitely warmer than room temp!
And when you have this party, round up all ketchup bottles, and put them away somewhere, hide them, because some CRETIN will inevitibly try to use it on their potatoes or wursts and that's a cardinal sin, punishable by ridicule.