Hi, I'm Andie.
I live near the Swiss Alps, in Bern, and I love not only melting cheese, but all kinds of Swiss cooking.
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Need a last minute, homemade Christmas gift? Try out this easy homemade granola that tastes like gingerbread.
When you're too tired to make breakfast, have a stock of these cookies on hand.
Although it is technically a vegetable, rhubarb is primarily sweetened and used as a fruit. In the United Kingdom, where rhubarb remains quite popular, the first harvest is performed by candlelight in darkened sheds, which is thought to produce the tenderest stems.
When I first moved to Switzerland, I did a short stage at a lovely bakery in the mountains. With a 4:30 am start, by the time z'Nuni rolled around I was ravenous. I was offered my choice from the display case and I took a little pot of pink, berry Birchermüesli. Two bites and I was sold.
How could it possibly be so creamy?
"It's weird," was Sam's consensus on the original Birchermüesli recipe.
If you are familiar with the creamy variety sold in bakeries and cafes around Switzerland and the world, this is very much a departure, but it is the original version from Swiss physician and nutritionist, Dr. Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner.
Usually it is a mistake to make someone's family recipe, and this was no exception.
I really wanted to like tannen syrup. I had never tried it before and it's thick and amber and smells like Christmas. It seemed so alpine and wholesome that I felt sure I would love it. I spread it thickly onto a piece of Zopf, breathed deeply (O Tannenbaum!) and took a bite. It tasted like an alpine meadow in bloom. It didn't taste like Christmas at all.
So, I decided that I needed to do something else with the rest of the jar, namely granola.
