Grandma's chicken noodle soup

There's definitely no chicken in here.  I remember my grandmother's delicious golden broth with homemade egg noodles and parsley very fondly.  I also remember that when I was done eating it, leftover in the bottom of my bowl would be pieces of chicken.  I'm not saying I never liked meat, I guess I just really didn't like it that much. (I also remember loving Thanksgiving dinner at my grandma's house, and putting turkey on my plate just because everyone called it "Turkey day", and then leaving it on my plate when I was finished with everything else.  Turkey was always my least favorite thing about Thanksgiving.)

I had a craving for it yesterday.  She usually made it with home made egg noodles - spaetzle.  (Sometimes she would buy frozen egg noodles and we'd all be slightly disappointed but not say anything.)

I was making a bunch of other things while I was doing this, so it kind of got away from me.  But it's delicious, and this is what I did.

cook one tiny onion and one lg shallot in a bit of olive oil until they're beginning to be translucent.
add about 10 baby carrots.  cook for another minute or two.  add a hefty teaspoon of garlic salt (I'm almost out of garlic) and stir for a minute.  then,
add 4 c vegetable broth (I had some from Costco that was heavy on the carrot, which was good for this recipe) slowly to deglaze pan at first.  Bring to boil.
Add some herbs - a bit of tarragon and sage, and a hefty handful fresh parsley.  Add lots of pepper.
Add about 3/4 c diced seitan (i made homemade seitan last week, otherwise I would've used something else.  I kind of like it, though.)
Cook for awhile why you

Mix 1/2 c whole wheat flour with 1 egg.  Add water/milk if needed or more flour to create a very sticky dough.  Force dough through a grater using the largest holes you can find to create spaetzle (about a 1/2 inch at a time, atmost), drop in boiling soup.  The noodles will probably stick to the underside of the grater - use a knife to cut them free.  Cook until noodles are done (float to top.)

Adjust for seasonings, add water if necessary throughout process (as in, if you have let it boil down too much and ran out of liquid!)

I was afraid my spaetzle was all going to stick together because I did it so precariously, and there are some noodles that are rather large and a couple stuck together, but it turned out alright.  As in, delicious.