L’Art de Bien Manger

  • Kochets Broat – Cooked Bread

    Kochets Broat – Cooked Bread

    Kochets Broat, cooked bread. This is a perfect example of the old way no waste cooking, for the main ingredients are stale bread and crumpled old apples. To be honest, Kochets Broat wasn’t really my fav dish, and my mother wouldn’t cook it often. However, going over my childhood foods and food traditions, it just… Read more

  • Leberli – Liver on Toast

    Leberli – Liver on Toast

    Leberli, that’s liver. Before vacuum packaged meat in neat supermarket ranges, meat was rather a local thing. And when the farmer brought an animal to the butcher, it was quite natural to use everything, no waste you see, not because it was trendy, but because it was normal. No one in their right mind would… Read more

  • Brennti Grem – Burnt Cream

    Brennti Grem – Burnt Cream

    Brennti Grem, this evokes those Sundays when everybody gathered around the table in my grandmother Nani’s house, the room served as sitting room and dining room at the same time, and with everyone around it nearly burst and I had to squeeze between the big green tiled oven and my uncle’s back to get out.… Read more

  • 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