L’Art de Bien Manger

  • Lammschlegel – What to Make for Sunday Lunch

    Lammschlegel – What to Make for Sunday Lunch

    Lammschlegel, that’s leg of lamb and the thing you would do for a Sunday lunch in the old days. In our family, it is cooked with root vegetables and stewed for several hours on the stove or in the stove pipe, the idea was that you’d prepare it before church and let it cook until Read more

  • Bölleflade – Onion Quiche

    Bölleflade – Onion Quiche

    Bölle, that means onions, and flade, that’s a quiche. Stinky sharp sweet onions that make you cry if you need it and induced my cousin to fetch his swimming goggles whenever he was asked to finely cut the onions, he liked to stick to his good mood at the expense of looking fabulously silly.  Onion Read more

  • Strübli – Carnival Baking

    Strübli – Carnival Baking

    Where I come from there is a very fun tradition called Fasnacht, carnival. I have been many things in life so far, however, Fasnacht would allow me to even take it a little further and magically shapeshift into princesses, pirates, cats, sorceresses and whatnot, if only for a few days.  Fastnacht marks the start of Read more

  • Russian Eggs and Very Exciting News

    Russian Eggs and Very Exciting News

    You probably heard me saying this multiple times these last days, but it is very cold here. Very very cold. Unimaginably cold, like a hole in the sky where someone pops arctic air over our land. So I made Russian Eggs. Eggs, you know, symbol of rebirth and spring and sprightly frolicking, and we had Read more

  • There are Mendiants until Lent

    There are Mendiants until Lent

    Mendiants, say beggars on a silver tray. In fact, they are sinfully delicious and I would say capitally healthy too because they contain nuts and fruit. A corker in short.   I made these well in advance for the weekend, as we are planning a micro-feast with neighbours. Nothing fancy, a little potage and then Read more

  • Planning for Good Times and Mogette Soup

    Planning for Good Times and Mogette Soup

    We are in mid January, the festivities and merry lights already starting to fade into memories. The days are short and cold and spring sounds like an exotic perfume, far away and a little unattainable.  Yet, this week we cut the hedges and trees in our garden, now that they sleep they are safe from Read more