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 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 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?
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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, 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, 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 [...]
