Ruby Foodie – A little glimpse of a delicious Danish wedding!

In July, I was very grateful to have been invited to a wedding in Copenhagen with my boyfriend.

This wedding was probably the most fun wedding I’ve attended. Wonderfully fun and nice people who made me feel so welcome (and my boyfriend by my side, of course), casual but beautiful ceremony and reception, delicious dinner, more food than you can eat, drinks, and even fireworks!

I’m sad to say I didn’t get very many pictures because I was busy drinking, eating, and having fun! I only got pictures of food…

First dish! The “Virgin lobster” was delicious… until I accidentally ate a part of the brain or some guts or something I wasn’t supposed to and turned everything bitter.

The (roast?) beef main course was so delicious, served with potatoes and mixed vegetables. We got really sad when we finished our plates, but then a waitress came by with a platter, asking if we wanted seconds!! Best thing you can offer people at a wedding– seconds.

I was actually starting to get really full (and saving some room for dessert), so I gave some to Sebastian, who gobbled it right up.

This ice-cream was amazing paired with the pistachio nuts and berries (including Danish strawberries I had been dying to try).

Note the super cute place cards (the photos are from our facebook).

And of course the wedding cake! Coffee and rhubarb cake! By then I was super stuffed but that didn’t stop me. Rhubarb seems to be much more popular in Denmark than anywhere I’ve been. Rhubarb candy is also deliciously popular.

The food didn’t stop there, bread, cheese, meats, and nuts were served a little bit later.

The party went on well into the morning and was such a blast! We had to leave a little bit early (at 4am!) to catch the night bus home, but there were still people out in the streets going and leaving parties and also people throwing up in the train. I love Copenhagen. 🙂

Ruby Foodie – Austrian Wedding!

I don’t know about you, but I think food is the best part of a wedding. Maybe it’s because everyone is starving by the time dinner is served and their jaws are tired from all the smiling and small talk. Or maybe through all the long speeches and toasts, the food is probably the thing people remember the most about weddings.

The bride is a fellow foodie, so we didn’t have any doubt that the food would be delicious. The only thing was, it was boiling hot that day and being bloated and wrapped up in a tight dress or suit did not leave us with much of an appetite. I was devastated.

Smoked Carinthian trout marinated and pureed

Two sauces in harmony and marinated soya sprouts with King oyster mushrooms

I totally ate the flowers. I felt pretty afterwards.

Traditional Carinthian church fair soup

Ingredients unknown. I was told it was every kind of meat made into a soup. I did not enjoy this one as much as others, but probably because I don’t care much for soup. And soup was the last thing I wanted in that heat.

Choice #1 of 2: Grilled fillet of Carinthian highland beef

In tasty port wine sauce and Bearnaise, Fresh vegetables and mushrooms of the season, Creamy potatoes au gratin

I chose this one and it was melt-in-your-mouth delicious. I could only eat half of it at first, then I went outside for a walk and came back to finish what I had started. The beef was so flavorful and tender, not anything like you would ever find in the states. However delicious, I couldn’t help but be reminded that the beef came from cows much like the ones that were roaming around in the back yard of our cabin (haven’t met the cows? See this post).

Choice #2 of 2: Butter-fried “Seesaibling” alpine fish

With chardonnay sauce, fresh spinach leaves, baby carrots and rice

I didn’t get to try this one, my steak had my full attention.

Various delights with creamy cottage cheese

Carinthian “reindling” ice cream with Nockingberg mountain berries and Prosecco-pear sauce

This dessert was really confusing. I didn’t know what I was eating 80% of the time. The only part I really enjoyed and ate the most of and fastest was the ice-cream in the middle.

I was happily stuffed by the end of the night and even fit in a few bites of the tri-flavored wedding cake (sesame, chocolate, and apple pie). I was in the bathroom when they were cutting the wedding cake, so I didn’t get a picture

I went to bed that night still dreaming about that steak, and to the sounds of cows mooing and cowbells clinking.