Tulln Garten

(old post transferred to new website) Back a few years ago, my Mother In Law asked me to go to Tulln Garten. And when an Austrian Mother In Law requests something, what do you do? Of course I said yes. A few days later, we set the Navigator/GPS and roared down the highway towards Tulln….

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Finally! Fried Chicken!

(old post transferred to new website) As you can tell by the title, we are going to talk about Fried Chicken today. Fried chicken can be made anywhere in the world. It doesn’t require any specific equipment or any really special ingredients and today, all sorts of things can be bought online. Don’t be intimidated….

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Cooking is becoming a bit easier these days, but also less fun.

(old post transferred to new website) When I first got here, in the late summer of 2009, I felt completely adrift. I was on a different planet, everything I was used to, food-wise, was not here. Grocery shopping was like watching your favorite movie in a foreign language. (there is a reason I am a…

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American Cole Slaw

(old post transferred to new website) From all of the American foods that I share with my friends and co-workers, this is pretty much the most popular. Right behind Twice Baked Potatoes. Everyone loves coleslaw, but for some reason,  people outside of America think it is rather difficult, even people that I know for a…

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Parking Brake

For the parking brake I used two aluminium pipes which fit into each other.The two pipes are connected at the end with a spring and I cut a kinda U shaped slot into the outer one.Together with a switch we got a parking brake: I printed two pieces to mount it under the switch panel…

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Switches below the yoke

For the light switches , as well as the ones for the fuel pumps and pitot heat I decided to make a wooden bar and mount it below the yoke.They are basic 2 positon switches from Amazon, nothing fancy. I also added a momentary button and wanted to use that one for the XBarometer plugin…

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Cattitude, my Honda CBF

In 2006 I bought my current bike, a Honda CBF 600 S ABS.She was one of the showroom bikes / rentals from my Honda dealer.I got her when she was one year old and had close to 8000 km on the odometer.She is Interstellar Black and I named her Cattitude! Here some technical data: CBF600…

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Eiernockerl

(old post transferred to new website) Eiernockerl is one of the best comfort food dishes ever invented. It’s like a hug on a cold, grey day. Peter had been feeling bad for the past few days, and it is a chilly, grey, foggy day. So I made him some Eiernockerl, and I took pictures. Like…

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Castle Hochosterwitz

(old post transferred to new website) Peter knows that I love castles and whenever we get to go somewhere on a vacation or a day trip, he tries to include a trip to some castle for me. The last one we went to has really stuck in my mind more than any other (even more…

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Käseleberkäse with Jalapenos

(old post transferred to new website) Peter loves this stuff and buys it by the kilo, which surprises me, because he is so very Austrian about food. To use a very sweeping generality, they give spicy the stink eye. But this stuff is made in Austria, and is based off of Käseleberkäse (Leberkäse with bits…

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