Things Austrians Eat

Moved to Austria from NYC and feeling like I'm in the set of Green Acres. Love the people, getting to "understand" the food.

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Semolina cake with berry sauce. Have to admit I'd never eaten semolina as a dessert before.

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Is that a pig's ear in my salad?

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Zwiebelrostbraten mit Kartoffelpüree und gemischtem Salat

You don't even want to know....

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Gefülltes Putenfilet mit Schafskäse und Spinat dazu Nudeln

Stuffed turkey breast with feta cheese and spinach with noodles

Always noodles. I know we're close to Italy, but pasta with every dish?

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Spatzle. LIke little noodles or something. Tried to make it from a package. Not in my immediate future again. For some reason they ended up chewy and unlike packaged food from America, did not come with a nice flourescent orange powder to create a cheese sauce.

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Geröstete Knödel mit Ei und gemischtem Salat

Dumplings. Yeah.

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Schweinekotelett "Zigeuner Art" mit Pommes frites und gemischtem Salat

Pork cutlet and fries.

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Mixed grill plate. Every type of meat imagineable with fries. Perhaps since it was Friday, it was clean out the fridge time?

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Gratiniertes Kotelett mit Gemüsereis und gemischtem Salat

Meat rolled with pork and stuff inside.  Really glad I ordered the salad.

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Not this. When trying to make kaiserschmarrn at home goes terribly wrong.

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If your curious as to what options there are each day for lunch.

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Topfennockerl mit Zwetschkenröster. Literal translation curd dumplings with plum sauce.  But a num dessert nevertheless.  Plus, you know, it comes after goulash for which anything tastes good.

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Goulash. Yes, goulash. Tasted just about as bad as it sounds.  Will take a pass next time.

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Chia samen or chia seeds. This is the big health food kick at the moment.  Everyone, including me, has a giant jar on their desk.  It basically turns into this weird jelly when you add water.  Interesting.

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It was an officemate's birthday and her mom baked some awesome cakes and jelly type rolls. Please note the butter on the banana cake/bread. Weird or not?

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What do Austrians eat? Apparently everything. My officemate joined the clean plate club finishing off the Erdbeerpalatschinken strawberry crepe thingies.