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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When the winter comes to its end, the desire for the spring to come becomes stronger and stronger. The snow melts, tiny little green leaves pop up the ground. It’s wild garlic, and for me it is the real sign that spring is knocking on the door. Where does it grow, and how does it taste? Wild garlic (Allium Ursinum), or also called Ramsons starts growing in February-March and gets flowers between April and June. Here in Austria it grows [...]
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Today it is All Saints, and in Austria this is an official day off. The weather forecast for today said that it would be foggy in the morning with the sun coming though in the early afternoon. So I thought, let’s go on walkabout in the outer districts of the city to make some photos. I rang a colleague, and off we went! Photographing at the Alte Donau First I went to the “Alte Donau” in Floridsdorf, where I hoped [...]
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