How to Cook an Easy, Inexpensive Comfort Dinner: Make Spaetzle (Egg Dumplings) in Bacon-Cheese Sauce
These are rich dumplings in a richer sauce, and the whole creates an amazing dinner. Spaetzle are little egg dumplings popular in parts of Europe, especially Germany, Austria, Switzerland. You can make spaetzle from scratch (see at the very bottom, below, for homemade spaetzle), but you also can find commercially made noodles marketed as spaetzle at places like Lidl and Aldi. The commercial noodles aren't up to the real thing, but they're just fine when you're in a hurry.