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About cardoons, Geneva’s favorite winter vegetable

22/12/2009 by Ellen Wallace

Anyone living in Geneva really should know how to prepare cardoons, since it is Geneva’s favorite winter vegetable. The problem is it is time-consuming and tedious, not to speak of the prickly thistles. Cardoon gratin is one of Geneva’s favorite Christmas dishes, so now’s the time to learn!

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Blanching, Cardoon, farmers market, Geneva Christmas dish, How to eat it, Lake Geneva, MarketDay - Seasonal products, MarketView, Preparation, Swiss, Switzerland, Vacuum packed, Where to buy it, Winter vegetables

The garden pumpkin bonanza moves into the kitchen

13/10/2009 by Ellen Wallace

by Ellen Wallace, GL editor Pumpkins love our garden and we love pumpkins: this weekend the season for cooking pumpkin kicked in seriously. We have some 60 small ones. The larger ones are fun when kids are little, but the small varieties tend to have more flavour and they are more manageable in the kitchen. […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: cooking pumpkin, farmers market, France, garden, Geneva, geneve, How to eat it, Lake Geneva, market, MarketDay - Seasonal products, pressure cooker, pumpkin bread, pumpkins, recipe, Recipes, suisse, Swiss, Swiss Alps, Switzerland, Valais, vegetables

The many colors of summer tomatoes

31/07/2009 by Ellen Wallace

Red, yellow, green, and orange tomatoes now available in Lake Geneva region Tomato season is well under way, and here are a few suggestions for using them. How to choose a tomato Remember you can’t judge a tomato by its cover. By that I mean, the best tomatoes may well be the ugliest. They have […]

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