I've talked about Freid's before ... they are a local, mom and pop, truck-stop-like restaurant in Mandan, ND. In my opinion, they have the best knoephla soup on earth. Bon Appétit magazine agrees. This winter, their restaurant was flooded due to a pipe break and they've been closed ever since. Until today.
Corey, Grandma Rene, Grandpa Darwin, and I celebrated the reopening with dinner at the restaurant.
I had knoephla soup. Knoephla soup is a dough dumpling thing with some small potato pieces in a creamy broth. I'm told it's a German food. Or maybe it's a 'Germans from Russia' food. Whatever its origins are, I will also classify it as a WNDF (Weird North Dakota Food) because it is readily available in North Dakota and I didn't find any in Germany. So there you have it - knoephla soup. Once you've had the knopehla soup at Fried's, all other knoephla soup becomes just not quite good enough. Thanks grandma for being my wonderful hand model.
For dinner I had knoepla and kraut (sauerkraut). Knoepla soup and knoephla and kraut for dinner ... wow that's a lotta knoephla. I eat mine with a bit of ketchup. Yeah, I'm cool like that.
Here's a recipe for Knoephla Soup
6 comments:
THat looks SOOOOO good! I saved a copy of the recipe to my file so I can make it next winter--or this weekend if this crazy weather doesn't change!
It must be the german word for delicious gooey chewy carbohydrates.
"delicious gooey chewy carbs" haha that is exactly what it is!
i just stumbled upon your blog through a quilting blog and i just love you blog. i grew up in jamestown and moved out to boise, idaho 8 years ago. I've been making knoephla soup for all my friends out here and they love it. i'll have to try your recipe.
oh, and i love the skirt, i've been debating on making it for sometime now...i think you've talked me into making it...so cute.
You are so fruity, I am assuming you grew up somewhere else.
Fruity???
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