With its crispy freshness, the beginning of October is a slow and fluid passage into the autumn. Long are gone the golden grain fields before harvest, the first trees wave goodbye to their leaves, which burst into flamboyant shades of yellow, orange and red. This soup is a celebration of the late summer’s crops, where […]
Ahead of a busy festive month of December, we are keeping it quiet and cozy these days. The temperature is continually dropping and the winter is arriving so we will definitely enjoy the crispy coldness of the outdoors. Definitely in a typical Swiss way! Today we finally had the first snow of the year! This […]
Leczo is a late summer stew, served with sausages and crusty slice of a sourdough bread to dunk all the juices from slowly cooked vegetables. As the November settles in and the days become shorter and colder, in order to ring back some of the summer flavours’ memories, I created this warming one-pot. The vegetables […]
Green split peas do not have a good reputation. They are mainly associated with bland soup or cooked cabbage (in Poland, groch z kapusta, one of the dragged canteen staples…). Could it be that the problem aren’t the peas themselves, but the way in which we are used to preparing them? I decided to disenchant […]