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.
ARE-YOU-BEE-WHY 