Posted in austrian, sweet, travel, weird austrian food, tagged austria, ice cream, eiskaffee on July 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Hey all, I’m back!
Sorry for the dearth of posts recently - I’ve been on a much needed vacation first to Austria (where apparently Meeta has been as well - view her travelogue starting here) and then chilling with family here in Sweden.
I’ll be back in full swing soon with new ideas I’ve picked up on [...]
Posted in austrian, baking, sweet, weird austrian food, tagged austrian, baking, bread, cake, osterpinze, pinze on March 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Osterpinzen are a traditional Austrian easter bakery made out of soft, sweetened yeast dough.
Austria is primarily catholic, so there are a lot of traditions around easter! For example, on Easter sunday, this sweet bread, some hard-boiled eggs and a piece of ham or smoked meat are brought to Easter mass, so that the priest can [...]
Posted in austrian, bento, egg, mediterranean, tagged strudel, egg, phyllo, bento, easter, easter egg on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
The BF ordered more of that delicious chard and feta strudel, so I was happy to oblige.
Other than that, the box contains Maché salad, a red easter egg and a cut-up slice of Osterpinze with grandma’s homemade apricot marmelade.
Posted in austrian, bento, pasta, soup, tagged pumpkin, bento, pasta, soup, wholewheat, pumpkin soup on March 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
With a title like this, what do you think the main ingredients of this bento are? *grins*
The small container contains wholewheat pasta spirals with pumpkin seed pesto (from a dry mix) and some crushed pumpkin meat. Parmesan and thai basil as decoration.
The thermos contains lovely pumpkin cream soup decorated with a splash of cream, a [...]
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, 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 austrian on December 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Sorry about the post confusion just before. Something in WordPress isn’t working as I thought it would…
The typical contents of a St. Nicolas present bag! Nuts of all sorts, mandarines and other citrus fruit, apples and candy. The only thing missing is a chocolate Nicolaus - I didn’t manage to buy one.
Chocolate St. Nicks look [...]
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 austrian, egg, vegetarian, weird austrian food on September 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I guess it’s just fair that after poking fun (or at least amazed amusement and amused amazement) at Swedish food I should also take a shot at Austrian food, my home kitchen.
What do you get when you take an empire, let it span from Italy over several slavic states to Hungary, and let them all [...]
