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 baking, soup, sweet, vegetarian, tagged asparagus, pie, rhubarb, soup on March 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I don’t know about you, but when I read “Spring Food Sensations” on Abby’s blog, my mind immediately sprang to rhubarb. Rhubarb is to me the ultimate spring messenger, and a delicacy to boot!
When I was little, I used to eat it in a preserve, or a sponge cake with rhubarb pieces on top (delicious!). [...]
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 egg, sweet, vegetarian, weird austrian food, tagged egg, pinze, easter, easter food, ostern, osterpinze, austrian, austrian food, sweet on March 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Ooh, do I ever have a backlog from stuff I did this weekend. Expect some spam today!
On Saturday, I attempted to make a traditional Austrian easter bun, called Osterpinze. It’s a soft, sweet yeastdough bun that’s usually presented with a dyed easter egg baked into the middle.
You can find a recipe and a much better [...]
Posted in bento, mediterranean, sweet, vegetarian, tagged bok choy, egg, phyllo, pie, pumpkin, pumpkin pie, recipe, spinach, strudel on March 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Bento eleventy-one! (<-huge geek)
Strudel made from bok choy and feta, green salad with pickled grilled bell pepper, pumpkin pie.
Spinach and Swiss chard strudels are simple, but lovely. I tried it with bok choy (chinese cabbage) this time, which gave the whole thing a very nice, firm texture.
How:
Wash one medium-big head of bok choy and cut [...]
Posted in sweet, vegetarian, weird austrian food, weird swedish food on February 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In Austria, the traditional Fat Tuesday food are hole-less donuts filled with apricot marmelade called “Krapfen”.
In Sweden, the traditional Fat Tuesday food is a yeast dough bun hollowed out and filled with almond paste and whipped cream. It’s called a “Semla”.
Do you celebrate Fat Tuesday? What’s the traditional Fat Tuesday food in your country?
Photos not [...]
Posted in british, guest post, sweet on December 24, 2007 | No Comments »
WereRabbits got a Christmas present in the shape of a guest post! The lovely Cheryl sent it to me. It contains a delicious Christmas sweet from the British islands. Thanks, dear!
What could possibly heighten the Christmas spirit more than carols on the radio and the warm scent of Christmas cooking wafting through the house? Here [...]
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 dessert, fruit, sweet on November 27, 2007 | No Comments »
…actually sharing those ripe, luscious strawberries. In November.
Posted in swedish, sweet, weird swedish food on October 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »
October 4th is Kanelbullens (Cinnamon rolls) day in Sweden!
Have you had yours yet?
I didn’t bake any though because my company and a consultant company both invited me to one already. Mmm, freshly-baked, aromatic cinnamon rolls…
I’d have taken a picture of the tray but they were gone faster than you could say “plague of locusts”. But [...]
