Posted in article, austrian, swedish, weird austrian food on January 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Happy new year 2008!
For myself, 2007 was entirely too stressy for my own taste. I hope that 2008 brings, if not relaxation, then stress of the positive, challenging kind!
While Christmas is pretty much the same everywhere (the only difference being that the presents are opened on the 24th evening in Austria and Sweden, and not [...]
Posted in article, sweet, weird austrian food on December 17, 2007 | No Comments »
I got a packet in the mail. It was from grandma!
Wouldn’t it be nice to picture the joker household… me in a cute dress, lovingly arranging cookies on a plate, to snap a few pictures with ease and then serving them to my love…
Instead, the whole affair is sweateningly frustrating. I still can’t handle that [...]
Posted in article, swedish, weird swedish food on December 15, 2007 | No Comments »
And here they are, the saffron cakes! They are actually yellow, much more so than normal cakes. The smell of saffron is now an integral part of my christmas… mmm!
Posted in article, austrian, weird austrian food on December 14, 2007 | No Comments »
I could write a long post listing the ways I love Vanillekipferln, one of my favourite and most traditional christmas bakeries.
But then, Meeta from What’s For Lunch, Honey? has already written an article about them to which I can’t add much more. And the photos are making me want to lick my monitor, too…
Check it [...]
Posted in article, swedish, weird swedish food on December 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Now that I’ve written so much about Austria, I should write something about Swedish christmas traditions too.
Today in the morning, I tiptoed into my work’s garage, where in the dark, surrounded by test cars, prototype engines and various tools my colleagues sat at tables by candlelight, drinking mulled wine on work time.
December 13: St. Lucia [...]
Posted in article, austrian on December 5, 2007 | No Comments »
December 5: Devil’s Day
It’s the dark time of the year, and the devil is stalking the street, stealing children! Is everything lost?
Oh no, not this time.
The devil, or Krampus, as he is known in Austria, is only the helper of good old St. Nikolaus, or as the English know him, Santa Claus.
Now Mr. Nick doesn’t [...]
Posted in article, austrian on December 4, 2007 | No Comments »
Back from work-related travel once more. I’m going to post an advent calendar of sorts - probably won’t make every day, but it should be enough with all the special days in December to at least get an interesting short article every other day or so!
December 4: St. Barbara
This is an old custom from my [...]
Posted in article on November 29, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m feeling the winter blues, but luckily christmas time is approaching with huge steps! Going to be away next week again, and on a seminar the week after. In the meanwhile, I’ll probably post my food photo backlog, just so the blog isn’t completely deserted.
While you’re here, check out the great article Nupur posted on [...]
Posted in article on October 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Follow the recipe. Don’t be stingy.
Especially not with fat, it doesn’t work.
Don’t believe what the recipe says, believe what your eyes say in amount of flour.
Halving the recipe never works (see point 3). Learn to live with ending up with 25 buns that need to be eaten :)
Call it a success if you can at [...]
Posted in article, japanese, restaurants, stores on October 6, 2007 | 3 Comments »
After a long week of hard work I do what every geek girl likes to do: relaxing with a shopping tour through the nearest big town!
Well, first I start by having a looong, nice sleep-in. Then I go on tour. And since by “then”, I mean “well into lunch time”, the first stop is defined [...]
