Carinthian Reindling

Hey y'all,

I hope you had a great time celebrating Easter with your loved ones and ate as much as I did during the last few days? Since y'all know what a typical Austrian "Osterjause" looks like I would like to tell you about one delicacy you probably don't know about (unless you are from or have relatives in Carinthia!): The "Carinthian Reindling".
My mom comes from Carinthia and half of my family still lives there (so no bad jokes about Carinthia when I'm around! ;)) and Easter without this delicious sweet bread just wouldn't seem right to me.

Ingredients

Yeast dough:
• 500 g flour
• 20 g yeast
• 50-100 g butter
• 1/4 l milk
• 1-2 eggs
• 50 g sugar
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. anise

Reindling:

• 50 g butter
• 100 g sugar
• 2 tbs. cinnamon
• 100 g raisins

Preparation

Step 1: Prepare yeast dough

1. Dissolve yeast in 2 tbs. warm milk, add 1 tbs. sugar and 1 tbs. flour and mix well. Let rise in a warm place until doubled in bulk.
2. Put flour, sugar, salt and other spices in a large bowl.
3. Melt butter and add milk. Blend in eggs and mix well.
4. Now add yeast-mix to the bowl with flour and then add all the liquids.
5. Beat at low speed until smooth.
6. Place dough in a bowl and cover with a little bit of flour. Cover with a cloth and let rise in a warm place until doubled in bulk.

Step 2: Reindling

1. When yeast dough doubled in bulk, knead well and roll the dough out on a floured board (~ 1 cm thick)
2. Coat dough with melted butter and sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon and raisins.
3. Roll in dough and put into well greased Bundt pan.
4. Bake for 50-60 minutes at 150° C.

   

Step 3: Enjoy

1. Enjoy your Reindling with ham and horseradish.

HAPPY EASTER!! :)

With enough coffee I could rule the world!

Alright guys, those of you who know me are probably well aware of my biggest addiction: I'm a coffeeholic! The first thing I do in the morning is getting myself a good cup of strong coffee, I love meeting friends for coffee and my favorite place at University is the coffee vending machine.

While living in the United States I left quite an amount of money at one of the most famous coffee shops: Starbucks Coffee. In bigger cities like NYC there is a Starbucks at every corner and even in Raleigh, where I lived, you can't go by car for more than 10 minutes without driving past at least one Starbucks.

Now, half a year later, I just can't believe that we don't even have ONE single Starbucks here in Graz and I miss my "Venti Skinny Vanilla Latte" a lot.

Therefore you might understand how excited I was when I saw the green-white-black Starbucks label at Penny Markt a few weeks ago.

One of the so called "Seattle Lattes" costs about 1,70€ and although it's not the same as my "Skinny Vanilla Latte" I was on cloud nine.

Are there any other coffeeholics out there? If so you will definitely agree with me and Boromir:

More than McDonalds!

Hey guys,

as you all know we got a bunch of questions about food, restaurants, diets, vegetarianism - well, the list goes on forever. Since I couldn't decide which one I should blog about I simply combined the following two:

• What kinds of international cuisine do you like?
• What is your favorite restaurant and why?

I don't want to bore you with my favorite international cuisine too much but I have to say that I'm in love with burgers. No, not the disgusting, fatty burgers you get at McDonalds for 1€ - but the good ones, which you can get at one of my favorite American restaurants here in Graz: Granola.

Granola offers American as well as Austrian/German food and its address is Bahnhofgürtel 89, which is just opposite of the main railroad station in Graz. Their prices are just right (about 8€ for a burger + fries) and you really get something for your money.

You can go there for breakfast, lunch, dinner or drinks but also to get a good cup of coffee and enjoy one of their delicious cupcakes or cheesecakes.

 

Give it a try and let me know how you liked it. Until then: Enjoy your meal!! :)