Apple crumble
For weeks I’ve been looking at these apples lying in the fruit bowl, looking more and more crinkly everyday and I kept saying we have to make a crumble. Not that I’ve ever made one, but I always wanted to. Last week I was making…
The New Yorker Food Issue
A recommendation for this weekend: The New Yorker Food Issue. With the cold weather outside I suggest staying in all weekend reading the brilliant New Yorker Food Issue. If you can’t find the paper issue I strongly recommend reading this brilliant article “Toques from Underground…
Very chewy and lovely caramel flavoured chocolate chip cookies
With the garden being more or less ready for winter my attention is shifting to the kitchen again. December is also the time when I need to have a jar full of cookies in the drawer. Preferably chocolate chip cookies or “sable chocolat au fleur…
May the force be with you
Today was the day ! Why not? It’s November, foggy and we had these cookie cutters in the drawer since august. I discovered these when we were planning the star wars birthday party but was to late with ordering, they arrived the day after the…
Teaching my son: How to make Spätzli
By now you might have guessed that we have a new concept here at coeur de sel, instead of making my son eating things I rather make him cook things. Something like if he won’t eat with me he can at least cook with me…
Italian Basics N°3 – Risotto
Pesca di Spada con Risotto and Fava Not that my son son would suddenly eat fish but risotto is on of his favorites and sometimes he even likes fave beans. Risotto is a dish that my son always likes to help because stirring is the…
Red Autumn Salad
It seems wrong to talk about autumn now that we have snow and minus temperature here in Switzerland. But the market and our garden is still full of all these lovely autumn products like figs, chestnuts, pumpkins and such so let’s just pretend we don’t…
Teaching my son italian basics n° 2 – Pasta
Pasta is the one thing our son actually likes. Ricotta – Spinach Tortellini in particularly. Perfect for an other holiday cookery action: How to make pasta. You might ask your self why on earth we have the equipment to make pasta in italy? Well ……
Teaching my son italian basics: part n°1 – tiramisu
Teaching my son to like different things is like climbing mount everest! Even though I realized that the amount of vegetables ( only raw ons though ) our son is eating is not common at all ( which makes my poor soul a little bit…