A couple of my Austrian friends are coming over for a meal this evening and I have to brag about it because I’ve never done a meal like this before (my girlfriend is the cooking fiend in our house). Tonight’s plan:
- Welcoming drinks in the form of Pepper Jacks (my own concoction I came up with at a party one time: Jack Daniels and Dr. Pepper)
- Dinner consists of Southern Fried chicken (with fresh ranch dip), succotash and homemade macaroni and cheese - all the recipes I got out of the book in the picture. If you want to have an awesome American cookbook, this is one of the better ones I’ve come across. My girlfriend wanted to have one for our place here in Vienna and the two of us looked at countless books in the store before we found this one.
- For dessert I’ve made brownies from my own personal recipe. My brownies are famous at my office in the departments that have tried them, so now whenever I bring in any to work, I always have to make a double batch in order to feed everyone - they’re that good.
Both of my friends coming tonight are also my colleagues and one of them is leaving at the end of March to begin training to be an aircraft controller and the other is leaving in August to study for a semester at the University of Georgia. Kind of fitting that he gets a taste of the food he’s going to be eating all fall and winter while he’s down in the Deep South.
I wish I had some American beers like SweetWater or a Florida wine or two to keep up the Southern flavor. As it is, I’ve got organic beer from Salzburg and red and white wines from Burgenland. Really looking forward to this evening and hoping that it does go as well as I intend.
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