Vietnamese or Thai food is ideal for hot summer days. Here’s a recipe that serves as a basis for all kinds of dishes. We usually use it with shrimps and / or fish, but it works just as well with veg. We never tried meat,…
After a brief discussion with the lady down the cheese shop, I made my first cheese pies – they turned out absolutely delicious! ~ Serves 3 when accompanied by salad ~ Ingredients: 250g Fondue cheese mixture 80ml Light Sour Cream 1 small egg 1dl White…
Thanks to a recipe by Christophe Champagnac of the Restaurant Les Arums I realized how beautifully anise goes with chestnuts. The original recipe was ‘ cappucino of chestnuts with star aniseed, pan fired foie gras, balsamic caramel ‘ (…). Now I don’t eat meat and…
All you fans of Japanes food and culture: don’t miss this great post by Sooishi! -> sooishi.blogspot.com
We were recently gifted with this marvellous wine – it was a tremendous pleasure to drink! What remarkable generosity on the part of the man who gave us this bottle…! Text from vintagewinegifts.co.uk Scoring 92/100 Parker points and from the very good 1996 vintage, this…
A Thai style dish made to a large extent with local winter vegetables Ingredients: Cabbage, ginger, chicory, oranges, chillies, garlic, walnuts and elements of spice curry Chop the vegetables, garlic and chillies , peel and grate the ginger, peel an orange. cook the walnuts in…
Got some beautiful fresh Calimari from Italy in the Globus store in Zurich and prepared the following dish: Calimari beaten and sautéd in olive oil, garlic, peperoncini for 2 minutes while adding salt, in the end sprinkle with lemon juice. Orechiette with trevisano and rocket…
My ginger and lime scampi are a classic with us by now. Chop lots of garlic, put oil, salt, chili flakes or fresh chili and grated ginger in the frying pan. Sprinkle your scampi with fine cane sugar. Pour contents of pan sizzling hot over…
