Amish Soup/Casserole

[Terrasanct]

I ate at an Amish restaurant in PA years ago and had a casserole with noodles, flour (I think) and maybe potatoes. Very starchy and filling. I know I've read about this particular dish before--it was made specifically to be filling. I think the name has something to do with the word "filling" if I remember right.

I'm sure someone here can help me remember what it's called. Thanks.

[rlibkind]

Could it have been chicken pot pie? The way the Amish make it, it's essentially a thick soup with big flat squarish egg noodles on top, no crust as you'd traditionally think of it.

[Terrasanct]

No, I don't think so. There was a German name I'm trying to remember. I'm not positive it's just Amish--it could just be German. They added flour to whatever it was to make it thicker and more filling.

[rlibkind]

No, I don't think so.  There was a German name I'm trying to remember.  I'm not positive it's just Amish--it could just be German.  They added flour to whatever it was to make it thicker and more filling.

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something mit spaetzel?

[ruthcooks]

The Amish make a potato filling to stuff poultry. Basically it is mashed potatoes with the seasonings you'd put in dressing/stuffing, and some bread cubes also, but I don't know of any with noodles.

Nothing else is known as "filling" that I know of, so maybe it was potpie, which could contain both noodles and potatoes. Or a rivel soup, but the "noodles" would be more like tiny, irregular dumplings.

If it was German, they make a dumpling of potatoes with bread cubes in the center, but again, no noodles. Was there meat served in it or with it?

[Terrasanct]

I don't recall if there was meat, just that there were at least two or three types of starch, not something you'd usually see. The noodles could have been rivels or spaetzle, but there were potatoes and flour, I think.

[lleary]

I ate at an Amish restaurant in PA years ago and had a casserole with noodles, flour (I think) and maybe potatoes.  Very starchy and filling.  I know I've read about this particular dish before--it was made specifically to be filling.  I think the name has something to do with the word "filling" if I remember right.

I'm sure someone here can help me remember what it's called.  Thanks.

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Could that have been Haluski? That is basically noodles and cabbage, I think. I first heard of it when I moved to Pennsylvania.

[lleary]

I ate at an Amish restaurant in PA years ago and had a casserole with noodles, flour (I think) and maybe potatoes.  Very starchy and filling.  I know I've read about this particular dish before--it was made specifically to be filling.  I think the name has something to do with the word "filling" if I remember right.

I'm sure someone here can help me remember what it's called.  Thanks.

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Could that have been Haluski? That is basically noodles and cabbage, I think. I first heard of it when I moved to Pennsylvania.

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Oh, and I think it can contain potatoes, too.

Hope this helps!

[chromedome]

It sounds to me like a variant on a dish my wife's German/Mennonite grandmother makes. It's called kartoffeln-mit-kloessen (sp?) which means, logically enough, potatoes with noodles. The noodles are made out of the same dough as her verenike wrappers, cut by hand into long strips like fat fettucine (smaller than pappardele, though).

My wife's grandmother usually serves hers with greens from the garden, bacon bits, onions, and a little splash each of the bacon fat and some vinegar. If you remember a thickened sauce on the ones you had, it may be that this specific Amish woman thickens the "pot liquor" she cooks her veg in, and serves that with the dish. I haven't seen it done quite that way, but it is certainly the sort of notion that would appeal to farmwife frugality.

[Terrasanct]

It could be something like that last one, since it probably did have both potatoes and noodles. I still haven't remembered the name though, which hasn't come up yet.

Don't you hate it when you're trying to remember something and you just can't?