"Austria, well then....."

Adam and Zoie mark Austria off our map! 

You may be wondering how we decide which country to visit each week.  We started by going from youngest to oldest but I think each of  us has a different way that we choose. For Ayden I think he wants the country that is the biggest, smallest, or most oddly shaped, he wants to really study the map before choosing.  I pick countries that I have always thought were interesting or ones that I think would have yummy food.  Adam, well he has an entirely different process, and this is it....

 

I am finding that a lot of the countries we have picked lately eat very similar.  Austria is famous for its wiener schnitzel.  We kind of already did that for German night.  We ended up making something called Zwiebelrostbraten, Ayden and I have fun trying to pronounce that one!  It is made with veal, I have never had veal.  I asked Adam what it was and very matter of factually, he said "oh its lamb".  So after visiting many stores and being unable to find anything named veal I bought some lamb.  I called my personal recipe encyclopedia and the best cook I know, my Grams, she said that veal was VERY different from lamb.  I then googled veal, don't EVER do that. Ever.  Needless to say, we didn't use veal.  I switched up the recipe and made it with chicken and chicken stock.  The best part were the homemade onion rings! 

Of coarse we had to have cheese danish!!

We learned that Hitler, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the inventor of the sewing machine were all from Austria (thanks Aunt Jen!!!)

It's my turn!  It's my turn!  Since I now have lamb in my freezer,  Greece!