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I still have enormous difficulty finding
thing in Vienna.
Today my quest was to make a pumpkin and
goat’s cheese salad - with tahini and
sesame seeds. Well you can forget tahini – it is probably available at
Naschmarkt – but that may be the only place in Vienna.
(I expect that Merisi will now tell me that
it is available in her local Spar – which is indeed far superior to mine - and
focuses on alcohol and chocolate).
It took me ages to find sesame seeds. After
scouring the spice and condiments shelves in Interspar in Simmering I finally
realized that they were probably in the baking section – and they were indeed.
You can only buy a half kilo bag.
And the German word for parsley is
petersilie – but this does not grace the shelves of any stores I have seen. One
has to look for peterkraus – which is entirely Austrian word and does not
appear in my German dictionary.
The problem is of course that I am using
Australian cookbooks. If I switched to Austrian cookbooks I would probably find
all the ingredients quite readily.
But Austrian food generally is a bit stodgy
and lacking in imagination.
And the last word on the Olympics.
I was watching a morning show on SKY today
and they were wittering on about how wonderful the British Olympians were and
how badly the Australians did. (Giggle).
They went further to say that – while they
came third overall in the medal tally – the really came first because their
population is much smaller that of the USA or China. Oh really?
Based on that premise – with a population
of 65 million and 65 medals – it equates to one medal per million Poms.
Australia – with a population of 22 million
– won 35 medals which equates to 1.6 medals per person.
So there
I should report that front page of a local
paper reported last week that an Austrian narrowly missed out on a bronze
medal. It would have been their first and only medal.
But they are terrific at the winter
Olympics and currently have the best ski jumpers in the world.
I will report further on the Olympics in
2016.
2016? If I have to wait that long I should relax, so I reclined the chair. Ah, much better. I did have to turn the car around 180 degrees because she left me sitting in the sun. Otherwise it would have got up to 180 degrees F. So as I was turning a big U-turn in the parking lot I suddenly noticed my son running beside the vehicle, so it was a good thing I didn't run over him.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't find tahini here for the longest time. It is Oklahoma after all, and anything more exotic than meatloaf throws these people off and traumatizes them for years. Last week I saw it--Lo and Behold!--on the shelf at Walmart, of all places.
ReplyDeleteThere is something to living in the boondocks, we have all the good stuff on the supermarket shelves. ;-)
ReplyDeleteI love it when you do math.
ReplyDeleteI remember a time here when no one would eat Tahini as it contains sugar and that was bad that year.
I see the Kiwis got another gold medal overnight thanks to the original winner of the ladies shotput failing a 2nd drug test. Wonder where that would put NZ in your mathematical calculation??? I'm sure they've worked it out.
ReplyDeleteesb: It would be poor form to run over your son. Glad you noticed him.
ReplyDeleteSK Waller: That's a bit too far for me - I will try to find it locally.
Merisi; I knew it!
fmcgmccllc: I remember that year - thank goodness we move on to salt or bread or cheese or something.
Sandy: I think the Kiwis have won easily
haha!
ReplyDeleteone thing i'm really looking forward to about going back to england is the SUPERMARKETS!
angiv: I have yet to find a really good one in Wien.
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