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Alps

For the love of goats and sheep

19/11/2017 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Wine and cheese are classic buddies, and pairings from the mountains anywhere are among my favourites. I live in the Swiss Alps, at 1,100 metres, with a small herd of beautiful Val d’Hérens cows next door; in spring and fall they eat down the pastures that surround my garden, and in early winter I listen […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Garden & nature Tagged With: Alps, cheese, goat, mountains, sheep, wine

Paw the hoof and lock the horns: the race is on for Queen of the Cows title

23/04/2012 by Ellen Wallace

Finals are just 2 weeks away and Valais’s finest Alpine cows show their stuff in Mollens arena GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – You know spring is here when Swiss cows begin to fight (tourism office schedule) and the crowds stream in from all corners of the country to watch them. Cool weather at 900 metres in Mollens, […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Alpine pastures, Alps, arenas, canton Valais, elimination rounds, Furibonde, Mollens, Queen of the Cows, sports, spring, Swiss fighting cows, Val d'Herens breed

Swiss Alpine garden fresh pumpkin pie

25/11/2010 by Ellen Wallace

We harvest 20-40 pumpkins from our Alpine garden every October, dry them for a month on the warm stones of the veranda to harden them off, then store them in a cool dark area for winter eating. We grow them at 1,100 metres altitude, on dirt mixed with a good dose of the neighboring farmer’s […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Alps, cooking, fresh, garden, ingredients, pie, pumpkin, Swiss, Switzerland, Thanksgiving

Wine pick: Petite Arvine from Valais

04/05/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Valais has a wonderful collection of wines, far richer in diversity than most wine-growing regions in the world. One of the real jewels among them is Petite Arvine, a wine which has a surprisingly salty finish. A friend who was translating a wine text recently asked me, “That can’t be right, can it? it’s not […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Alps, Chateau Lichten, finish, Fully, Gerard Dorsaz, grape variety, honey, Leuk, mineral, Petite Arvine, Rouvinez winery, salty wine, Valais, wine pick

Home alone! with a popcorn thief

16/09/2009 by Ellen Wallace

One of the real joys of having a family is seeing them all leave, now and again, so you have time alone to do EXACTLY what you feel like. In my case, a recent home alone evening, with balmy weather in the Alps, drove me to one of life’s great pleasures (you might not all […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Alps, cat, home alone, Life's pleasures, popcorn, Switzerland, view, wine

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