Recipes

Recipe Ideas from Our Travels

Alpine Dishes: Blueberry Bread

Early-summer office in Winterthur. A shipment of organic blueberries from “gebana” has arrived. I remember the collection “Alpine Recipes” that was gifted to us at the Werdenberg nursing home. It includes blueberry bread. Time to try it out.

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Buchteln

The summer abundance of apricots at Hauerhof 99 in Kritzendorf still provides us with delicious jam here in Andalusia. Pure apricot flavor. In the travel cooking box, I discover another packet of Viennese baking sugar. It has a recipe on the back. Buchteln. Childhood memories. Memories of mother and grandmother. […]

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Dumplings

On my way to becoming Austrian, I can’t avoid dumplings. And I don’t want to. I love dumplings. They remind me of my holidays at Eichbüchel Castle with my grandmother and her visits to us in Switzerland. Today we have apricot dumplings with plum dumpling dough. …these still need a […]

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Art drawing of a masterwort plant with leaf, flower and root

Alpine Dishes

During our isolation stay at the Werdenberg nursing home, we were given the little booklet “Alpine Dishes” by Augustin Contra. A lovingly curated recipe collection rooted in the mountain homeland of the canton of Graubünden.

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