A Culinary Walk Down Memory Lane

We've been using our time together at Mom's this winter to cook up some memorable meals. Old family recipes, traditional holiday favorites and some from our Big O birthday trip to Switzerland and Austria. Clay has been living out his dreams in Mom's kitchen. We've been enjoying his labors.

He found a piece of meat that he could cook as schweinshaxe and did. He first had it in Vienna in 2003 but again in 2018 in Innsbruck pictured to the left.

His recent effort is pictured below. Pretty close!

Last night we all worked together to make a dish called nockerl, inspired by Pikante Nockerl that Mom & Carol both had our last night in Vienna at Strasser Brau. I finally found an English language ingredients list of that dish today and we weren't too close!

Spicy dumplings
with bacon, bell pepper, onions,
Cheese, pepperoni and chilli,
with lettuce

Here's a photo of our dish. Our recipe's ingredients list was not too similar but we enjoyed it just the same and liked that you could switch ingredients with such ease. This would always be a good impromptu meal prepared from what you happened to have in the kitchen. Here is a link to the recipe we based ours upon.