- Batch Cooking, Core Recipes, Main Courses, Meat, Meat and Poultry, Recipes, Rice Dishes, Rice, Pasta, Grains and Sides, Starters and Lunch
Chilli Con Carne
Chilli Con Carne is an absolute favourite in our house and I always have some in the freezer both in London and Switzerland. Whilst we consider it comfort food, the everyday ingredients come together to create a…
- Breakfast and Brunch, Cheese, Main Courses, Meat, Meat and Poultry, Potato Dishes, Recipes, Rice, Pasta, Grains and Sides, Savoury Breakfast and Brunch, Starters and Lunch
Raclette Served with Baked Potatoes, Bundnerfleish, Gherkins, Pickled Onions, Apple and Tomatoes
Raclette, a delicious alpine cheese heated, melted and scraped onto cooked potatoes, is synonymous with the Alps and specifically the Valais area of Switzerland, which is where we come to. You can get it everywhere: in the…
- Batch Cooking, Core Recipes, Grains and Pulses, Main Courses, Recipes, Rice Dishes, Rice, Pasta, Grains and Sides, Starters and Lunch, Vegetarian Main Courses, Vegetarian Starters and Lunch
Vegetarian Lentil Chilli with Black Beans, Sweetcorn and Chickpeas
Extremely tasty vegetarian chilli packing a spicy kick and a huge flavour punch whilst also including a wealth of nutrients to sustain you. Adding more vegetables and sour cream and cheese (or vegan alternatives) when you serve,…
Goulash Soup – Gulaschsuppe
Warming, hearty, deeply flavoured beef stew with potatoes, paprika, caraway seeds and tomatoes. A delicious and satisfying meal for any time of the day. A staple mid-winter lunch on the slopes across Europe and an international favourite…
Alpine Cooking By Meredith Erickson
A celebration of the Alps – a cookery book, a travel guide and a history lesson to nourish your appetite and your mind and feed your inner wanderlust. Just before Christmas David Lebovitz wrote an article about…
Chocolate Chip Cookies – Core Recipe
How do you like your cookies? In our house we all like crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside. I know that if the dough for each cookie weighs around 30g and is cooked for…
Middle Eastern Spice Mix
Tabouli was the first food I ate associated with the Middle East and I had that in Australia at the back end of the 1980s. I moved to London in the early 1990s and London has an…
Curry Spice Mix
This is my most complex spice mix, it is bit more fiddly to make (but not difficult), has a long list of ingredients and a few more bits of equipment. It took me a while and a…
- Breakfast and Brunch, Cakes and Cookies, Core Recipes, Muffins and Loaves, Recipes, Sweet Breakfast and Brunch, Sweet Core Recipes
Banana Muffins/Banana Bread – Core Recipe
Banana muffins/loaf are a mainstay of our breakfasts – normally at the weekend – and they are an absolute favourite with our girls at any time of the day! They are buttery, light, fluffy and full of…
Goulash Spice Mix
It seems appropriate that the image of this spice has the Swiss Alps in the background. Whenever I think of goulash, I think of the mountains. More often than not, this will be the Swiss Alps. Virtually…