What I ate in Austria...hiccup...

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Mainly cafe food and homemade things, since we were staying with family...

Thin, crispy and delicious Wiener schnitzel the size of a hubcap, with potato salad and vinegared cucumber salad.

Apple ice cream.

Wildberry ice cream.

Eiscafe (coffee + ice cream). Times 5.

Mozart ice cream (chocolate-hazelnut-mint flavored).

Cheese rolls.

Rolls that looked and tasted like a big soft pretzel.

Lots of cheese.

Sliced meats at heurigen, family-owned summer restaurants that feature their homemade meats and breads...and desserts.

Bean salads with pumpkin-seed-oil vinaigrette. (This pumpkin-seed oil stuff is incredibly good; it tastes like toasted pumpkin seeds! Halloween on a salad!)

White wine in ridiculous quantities.

Cider.

Little sandwiches from the Tresniewski buffet in Vienna!

Sacher torte and a kleiner brauner at the Braunerhof Cafe in Vienna (writer Thomas Bernhard's favorite).

Ok, lots of kleiner brauners, really.

Babovka I (cake in a Bundt-like pan, with a swirl of chocolate).

Babovka II (with rum and almonds). (These aren't Austrian; made by my aunt-in-law, who's Czech.)

Apricots from my aunt- and uncle-in-law's garden.

Apricot jam.

Apricot cake.

Sausages studded with cheese.

There were some vegetables in there, somewhere, but I'll be darned if I can remember what they were...

How do they eat so well?! And what explains the cult-like appreciation of ice-cream concoctions?

And does someone have a gym membership I could borrow?! I brought back a lot of Austria with me... smileys/wink.gif

 
oooooh! i don't think it's possible to eat with mediocrity in austria without supreme effort.

 
Exactly what I was thinking when I visited Mimi's travel and world cuisine link! How sad for us all!

 
Relatives live in Mautern, across the river from Krems an der Donau ....>>

My uncle-in-law is a wine enthusiast. smileys/smile.gif It would be hard *not* to be, in that part of Austria!

We took the train down from Prague, and we ended up making an unexpected detour in Niederosterreich, for auto repairs, and miraculously wound up in front of a fantastic restaurant, the Waldviertler Stuben, just as night was falling.

We mainly went back and forth from Mautern to Stein and Krems, with a two-day trip to Vienna.

In a previous life, I think I ran a heuriger. smileys/smile.gif

http://www.waldviertler-stuben.at/

 
Oh my, that is such a beautiful area...

Did you get to visit Melk or Dürnstein? This is also the area that gave birth to the Niebelungen saga of Siegfried and all that teutonic mythological lot; not in Germany as some would like to believe ; )

How lucky you are a day's drive.

Keep us posted on all your Czech, Austrian, and European (food) travels.

 
My uncle-in-law delights in showing visitors around....

...so he took me to Melk, Gottweig, Durnstein, Artstetten, and Challaburg (I think this is the one with the Niebelung exhibit in the basement), over the last three summers.

Since he was diagnosed with liver cancer, last spring, he no longer tools around the Wachau to such a degree. That's why we didn't budge much from Krems and Mautern, this time.

You're a wealth of information on Austrian and European cuisines, so I always look forward to your posts. smileys/smile.gif

Cheers! Erin

 
and there is something

so wonderful about just staying put and soaking up the ambiance. I've told all my friends that I am no longer leading any tours of Europe. LOL I just want to go and take up residence in a little alpine village or some such.

I have German ancestry, minored in German language in college, and did part of my college in Austria, where I immediately fell in love with Austria and Bavaria. I absorbed as much of the local culture and cuisine as I could. I went to school in Graz, another beautiful city.

 
I'm all for slow travel...

...on the other hand, I hope to do a biking trip along the Danube, one of these days. I figure I've gleaned enough local knowledge to cut the costs way down. Map + bike + lodging + maps-to-food. Oh, and ponchos.

I hope to explore more of Austria, over the next few years.

And I must eat out more, in Vienna, to find this green sauce... smileys/smile.gif

 
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