A nutritionist recently sparked my interest in fermented foods – after six years of caring for my babies/small children, I felt exhausted and prone to catching whatever illness came near me. I had a chat with her about what I could change in my diet in order to gain my strenghth back. Amongst other things […]
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Thank you for being my reader in 2017!

It’s been a fun year writing this blog, thank you so much for reading. In 2017, people from about 130 countries visited this blog. The most popular recipe was Spätzli und Knöpfli, the homemade Swiss pasta. The second popular was the Swiss Sunday bread called Zopf and the third the 9 traditional Swiss soups. During […]
Pick Your Own Strawberries

When I was a child, is Erdbeeri Feld gah (going to the strawberry field) was a yearly spring ritual in my family. The strawberry is a very delicate fruit, which means the supermarkets can only sell the very sturdy varieties, and only if they’re not fully ripe – otherwise they would all break on the […]
Pete And The Curries Of Tooting

This interview was initially published on another of my blogs. That blog doesn’t exist anymore, but it’d be sad to see this interview go too, so I’m re-publishing it here. It’s an interview with my former London neighbour and Tooting, my old home and a London hotspot for curries and anything Indian. Enjoy! Pete used […]
My Top Ten Happy Places I’ve Eaten A Meal

My blogger friend Tamara from confessions of a part-time working mom organises a weekly Top Ten Thursday Challenge. This week’s topic is ‘top ten happy places’. I’m mad about food and traveling so I got quite a bit excited about this one and really wanted to take part. Here’s my top ten list of happy […]