I speak and sign food ...

Hi everybody, 

                       

with this blog post I would like to show you how a recipe recommendation looks like in Austrian sign language. I uploaded a video where I signed a typical Tyrolean recipe called "Zochane Kiachln mit Sauerkraut". It is a simple meal we cook on holidays like for harvest festival. It is made out of yeast dough that gets formed round, thin in the middle and thicker on the edge, and then it gets deep fried in oil or fat. We eat it hearty with sauerkraut or sweet with jam and powdered sugar. In my video I describe in Austrian sign language how I cooked it together with my dad for Christmas. To make it clear for you all I laid the spoken English translation over the video. If anyone wants to try it out I wrote the ingredients list below!!

Ingredients (for 8 Kiachln)

·         300 g four

·         150 ml warm milk

·         15 g yeast

·         1 tablespoon sugar

·         20 ml oil

·         3 eggs

·         1 pinch of salt

·         Fat to fry

I hope you all enjoyed the different way of get cooking advice.

Wish you Happy Easter!

Bye everybody ;)

Who am I?

Hello beautiful stranger. My name is Diana Sabrina Anastasia Bachler, but you may call me Diana. For about half a year I have been following this pulchritudinous path that is called translation studies in Graz and have set foot on earth almost 20 years ago. My family lives in the North of Styria, on the countryside, but I tend to refer to that place as "country-countryside", or "nowhere", or simply "hick town". Still I find it incredibly charming and love being there.

A view over the place that I call my home.

There are several activities that I like to practise during my spare time. In winter I pass most of my days on the slopes, as skiing is my favourite kind of sports. In fact I wanted to become a professional, but two severe injuries right at the time of application for skiing school wouldn't allow me to and still limit me a little in my physical activities. Nevertheless I do take part in races here and there and exercise throughout the whole year.  

Apart from skiing, I'm an enthusiast for motorsports. When I was just a tiny, fair haired toddler, my parents would already bring me to DTM, Superbike or MotoGP races and I've loved it ever since. Unfortunately I'm too old and unexperienced by now to take up a career in racing, but at least my dad and I sometimes take part in semi-professional Go Kart races. So I got that going for me, which is nice.

I try to live healthily. I work out four times a week at the gym, play volleyball and tennis whenever there is time, but then again there are nachos and pizza and well... Deliciousness!

One of the things that everyone reading this needs to know is to better not insult Meryl Streep in my presence. You probably shouldn't tell me that you like her either because I might incessantly talk to you about her if so. She has been my idol for almost ten years, and I love her not only for her great humour and immense talent, but also because she has this overwhelming presence not only on screen.

My car in Umbria, Italy

How else could it be that traveling is as well one of the things I like to spend my time with most, but it's still too little for my taste. 

The two islands Lanzarote, part of the Canary Islands, and Gozo, Malta's neighbour island somehow grew to become second homes for me, since my parents and I regularly go there. Of course it's even better to explore new places, but coming back after a few years and looking at how everything has changed is nice as well. 

My love, Budapest

One of the many places I've lost my heart at is Budapest, since this city has something so charming and it makes you feel that each time you go there, you take in too little of it because it's that beautiful.

 


 

Who am I?

Hi everybody, 

I think the two things in my room or lets say in my life that tell most about me and my personality are my world map poster and my coffee machine. That maybe sounds a bit strange but I looked closely at it and I realized I set my heart on these two things. Whenever I moved during the last years, they helped me feel home very fast.

About 11 years ago my dad gave me the world map poster on a pin board as a present for my 21^st Birthday. From that time on I started to pin all the places in the world I have already been or I wanted to travel to. Thereby I became more and more passionate about traveling. I have been on many exiting trips till now and I am not finished jet. At the moment I am planning to go on a round the world trip.

The second thing that is always with me is my beloved coffee machine. I think the reason is obvious I am seriously addicted to coffee! But what does that tell about who I am? Well, I am everything else then a morning person and a morning without a coffee or two is no good one for me. It’s comparable to how important chocolate is for some people. There is nothing better than enjoy a good coffee after a hard day.

So to sum it up I would say I am 31 year old, English and Austrian sign language student with an addiction for coffee and traveling.

Hope I could give you a short glance into who I am. But if there are any open questions please don’t hesitate to ask.

P.S.: I would suggest going for a coffee to answer them!!! ;)