Category: Food & Drink
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Lush seasonal salad: Burrata with Cherries, Figs and Pistachios

An easy-to-prepare appetiser or main meal, this recipe requires only your two hands to tear apart the cherries and burrata, thwack the pistachios with a rolling pin, and pour over your favourite olive oil.
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Cuppa with a Conscience at Nyon’s Soliderie Café-bar

Nyon’s La Soliderie café-bar drives funds to its adjacent grocery store for the area’s disadvantaged and doubles as a community/cultural base, too.
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Tibits: Vegetarian Dining to go out of your way for

WHEN it comes to eating vegetarian I’m no aficionada. But I recognise fresh ingredients, balanced and lively flavours, enjoyable textures, inviting aromas, and the pull of pleasing colours on the eye and appetite.
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Oak Orchard Edibles: from Garden to Table

ONCE UPON a time in a canton not very far away (Basel, that is) there lived a young man who one day returned from Boy Scout camp to take over his mother’s kitchen. Uninspired by the prospect of boiled salt-water potatoes, Martin fried the uncooked spuds in oil and butter, added salt, pepper, a dash…
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Delicate, delicious London Fog Tea Latte

IT SEEMS this delightful brew has been around awhile, but it took my sister (thanks, sis!) to introduce me to it on my recent visit to Vancouver. I guess it was always just around the corner waiting for me to discover it — and what a pleasant surprise.
