A recipe for when you really miss winter sports

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: cheese spaetzle.

If you go skiing every year, you probably know this delicious cheesy dish: cheese spaetzle. You can eat it in just about any (mountain) restaurant in Austria, but you can just as easily make it yourself.

Spaetzle
Maybe you already knew about spaetzle: small pieces of dough, actually a kind of pasta. Combine it with cheese and you have the ultimate comfort food. A kind of Austrian mac and cheese, then. For the dough, you only need flour, eggs, and water. You shape it by pressing the dough through a colander with a wooden spoon. Or if you really want to take it seriously: get a spaetzle grater. You press the dough from the grater or colander into a pot of boiling water. When the spaetzle floats to the top, they are ready and you remove them with a slotted spoon from the pot.

Mountain cheese
After that, you can start building the cheese spaetzle: place a layer of spaetzle on a plate or dish and sprinkle a layer of mountain cheese (like Emmental or Gruyère) over it. Keep repeating this until you run out of spaetzle. That was easy, right? Want some extra crunch on your dish? Then add crispy bacon or fried onions. Got a taste for it? Then try this recipe and serve it as the ultimate cheese snack at your next party or spoon it away while watching a series on the couch.