Category: Food & Drink
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Recipe Favourite: Roast Chicken with bacon, shallots, chilli & thyme
THIS wonderfully tasty and quick-to-make meal is a great fall-back recipe for yourself, family or friends that is sure to please everyone who tucks into it. Based on a recipe by Australian restaurateur Bill Granger from the March 2012 issue of UK Delicious Magazine, it has been adapted by mio marito to suit his flamboyent taste buds…
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Creamy Bündner Gerstensuppe will keep you warm on cold winter nights
ONE OF my favourite Swiss cookbooks, not only for the delicious and largely easy-to-make recipes, but also for its beautiful photographs of Swiss scenes, landscapes and traditional architecture (it would qualify as a lovely coffee table book) is Manuela Darling-Gansser’s book Winter in the Alps, Food by the Fireside. At this time of year I often make my slightly…
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Switzerland’s “Loveliest Coffee & Tea Houses”
THE SWISS number among the biggest coffee drinkers in the world, a beverage they consume in local espresso bars and cafés ranging from the traditional to the modern. Many of these popular establishments have distinctive architecture and a unique history that make them a rich contribution to Switzerland’s heritage. Patrimoine Suisse, the Swiss Heritage…
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Chilly evenings are just right for a baked-in-the-box Vacherin Mont-d’Or mini fondue
ON CHILLY evenings such as we’re having now, one of my autumn and winter favourites, baked Vacherin Mon-d’Or served as a luscious mini fondue, makes for a warm, flavourful meal that’s great to share with family and friends (individual and double-sized portions are sold at most stockists)–or as a cosy meal à deux–along with some crisp Swiss white…
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