Christmas Cookie Bake-Off with Devil’s Food and Austrian Linzer Cookies

Dessert Recipes, Exotic World Recipes, Recipes from food films and TV

It’s time for my annual Christmas holiday cookie bake-a-thon! 297 treats were made and I am sharing two recipes: Devil’s Food and Austrian Linzer Cookies. My friend Catherine and I got together for the 3rd year in a row and baked up a...

Styrian Potato Field Salad | Erdäpfel Vogerlsalat

Salad and Soup Recipes, Evelyne's Unusuals, Exotic World Recipes

The Styrian potato field salad, or Erdäpfel Vogerlsalat, is the ultimate Austrian salad. The tangy potatoes are topped with field salad, speck and a heavenly dose of Styrian pumpkin seed oil. I have waited one long full year to post this recipe. I...

Husarenkrapferl, an Austrian Christmas Cookie

Dessert Recipes, Exotic World Recipes

Time to shake up your holiday cookie roster? How about a batch of Austrian Husarenkrapferl cookies? This gorgeous almond shortbread, dusted with icing sugar and finished off with a dollop of jam, will be the talk of the dessert table. OK people the holidays, less than...

Punschtorte, an Austrian Punch Cake

Dessert Recipes, Exotic World Recipes, Travel Guides

The Punschtorte is a classic Austrian cake with a big boozy punch! A thin cake sandwiches a rum punch filling, and finished off with a thick pink fondant icing. No one knows for sure the origins of this Punschtorte cake but it may have been introduced to...

Curious about Spätzlesalat (Cold Spätzle Salad)?

Salad and Soup Recipes, Exotic World Recipes

Want to surprise guests with a new kind of cold salad? Then try this Spätzle Salad, a special egg noodle, served with fresh veggies, bacon, cheese and a light dressing. My new food obsession is spätzle (or spaetzel)! I consumed large amounts of it during my...