5th birthday! 🥳

Once upon a time, an Irish girl tried to make gluten-free spätzle for her German husband. She tried, and she tried, then she finally nailed it on 3/11/17.

That’s how it all started. I found out in 2010 I couldn’t have gluten anymore due to medical issues. Ironically, a year later, Marty found out he was gluten intolerant. After following my strict gluten-free diet, it made him sick when he did try to eat it. Very sick. We both loved food so much; this really sucked for us.

We could find shitty bread, bagels, pizza, and pasta. When I say shitty, I mean shitty—products with terrible texture, taste, and shelf life. The gluten-free food industry has improved by leaps and bounds over the last ten years.

As I said, we could find all the essential gluten-free items we missed, but I couldn’t find spätzle anywhere. I couldn’t find a recipe or product anywhere in the world. That’s when it became my mission to make a gluten-free spätzle for us.

Over the next seven years, I developed recipe after recipe to come up empty-handed. I used various gluten-free flours and grains, different liquids, and mixing methods. Every time I thought I had it, the spätzle disintegrated in the pasta water. You know me by now; there are still curse words out there floating around the galaxy.

Then on March 11, 2017, I had an idea and tried something new. I was getting closer and closer each time I tried, so I crossed my fingers and held my breath as I pushed the spätzle batter through the spätzle press into the simmering water.

It held together! It floated to the top of the water when cooked like it was supposed to! It tasted delicious! I said out loud, “This is the birth of the Vermont Spätzle Company!”

I drained the spätzle and sautéed it in some butter, put it on a big white platter with pork schnitzel, and served it to my family. Marty took one taste and said, “We need to share this with the world.” The rest is history!

This morning I made us pineapple upside-down gluten-free pancakes to celebrate. Our productions plans have changed with making deliveries yesterday and today instead of making product for the farmers market tomorrow.

We decided to stay home from the market due to the impending snowstorm, which is forecasted to be at its worst with one inch of snow per hour while we would be at the market. High winds at 40 phr are also predicted, making us nervous that our power will go out again. At the end of the day, the hour drives there and back with the thought of what we may find when we get home isn’t worth the stress and anxiety involved.

I hope our customers who venture out won’t be too disappointed we won’t be there and will understand we live an hour away with more snow in the forecast in VT. It’s always tough to call closing your business due to weather, which is definitely something we don’t like to do.

Happy Friday! Today I will be making deliveries, doing chores, getting ready for the storm, and possibly losing power…again. Be safe and stay warm, everyone!