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    Bread Dumplings

    Dumplings are a typical part of Austrian, German, Hungarian and Czech cuisine. You can serve them as a side dish (for meat, in soups), as a main course (filled dumplings, dumplings with scrambled eggs) or even as a dessert (sweet curd dumplings, dumplings filled with fruits). You can make dumplings out of many different ingredients but the most popular ones are made from bread or potatoes. I like the bread dumplings the most, as they perfectly absorb meat juice. They [...]

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    Wild garlic pesto

    Wild garlic pesto

    Here in Austria they make a lot of kinds of pesto. Some include most of the traditional ingredients like basil or pine nuts, others are completely different. But mostly they are green and share the same consistence as normal Italian pesto. Pesto made of wild garlic is one of the more popular products made in spring. It has the same spicy taste as normal pesto and is also made with pine nuts. You can of course use different nuts like [...]

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    NEFT: Russian vodka made in Austria

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    Last week I was lucky. Very lucky, because I participated a sweepstake on a vodka blog and won an exclusive barrel of vodka from NEFT. I guess you think now probably:”A BARREL, WTF??”. Yes, I won a 0,7 liter sized metal barrel, filled with vodka, and in this short blog post I will write a bit about it. The vodka is in a barrel because of the name “NEFT” what means “oil” in Russian. According to their website NEFT was [...]

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    My first single malt whisky tasting

    Whisky tasting

    Friday evening I went to a whisky tasting evening in the Highlander pub in the 9th disctrict of Vienna. The first hour was pure theory where we got to learn more about the history of whisky, which countries produce it and how it is produced. Some info I already knew, but I also learned a lot of new things. The selection of single malt whisky My personal tasting notes This was the first time that I went to a (beginners) [...]

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    An easy to make and delicious wild garlic soup recipe

    Wild garlic soup

    On of the few dishes I always make when the wild garlic season starts is soup. You can use any kind of stock for it, but I use most of the time chicken or vegetable stock. It just depends what I have in the freezer. And if there is nothing in the freezer, I just take a stock cube. If you also want to use a stock cube, be careful then with adding salt. Less is more I always start [...]

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