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Suzukii strikes fear at Swiss wineries

18/09/2014 by Ellen Wallace 5 Comments

Don’t make forecasts about the 2104 harvest just yet! Two months ago a wine producer from canton Valais suddenly turned to me at a crowded dinner where the conversation had been fairly lighthearted. He frowned and said, “we’re worried about Suzukii, not the car, but the new bug.” I gave him a blank look, so […]

Filed Under: News, Wineries Tagged With: canton Valais, cherry vinegar fly, Daniel Dufaux, Drosophila suzukii, fruit, pest, spotted wing drosophila, Suzukii, SWD, Swiss vineyards, Xavier Bagnoud

Rhubarb pie with pepper, coming up

07/05/2014 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

I love to bake pies and while I think that Swiss late harvest wines from Valais are some of the world’s finest sweet wines and great with many desserts, I like the idea of exploring other wines for the end of a meal, for pie in particular. Sparkling wines are the easiest first option. But […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: dessert wines, food and wine pairings, fruit, pie, rhubarb

Topping and tailing gooseberries the easy way

26/07/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Here’s a shortcut a wine grape grower’s wife shared with me, for topping and tailing gooseberries. We use them in jam and pies, both of which I love, but it’s always seemed unfair to me that you first get pricked by the thorns and then you have the tedious job of topping and tailing them. […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: freezing, fruit, garden, gooseberries, jam, pie, shortcut, sugar, tip, topping and tailing

John Dory, asparagus, blood orange sauce

05/05/2010 by Ellen Wallace

John Dory, Italian green wild asparagus and blood orange sauce One of my favorite ways of creating tasty but healthy dishes is using fruit and vegetables as sauce. There are millions of ways to do this, depending mainly on the season. Oranges are abundant at the moment, so I’ve been using a lot of orange […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Blood orange sauce, fish, fruit, high fiber, Italian, John Dory, low fat, Main dish, recipe, Seasonal produce, vegetable, weight loss, Wild green asparagus

Farmers markets in Geneva

15/09/2009 by Ellen Wallace

As Laila Rodriguez noted in her much needed post How to find outdoor food markets in Geneva of 8 September 2009, a list of Geneva’s outdoor food and farmers markets can be found on the city of Geneva’s Département Environnement Urbain & Sécurité site.

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: farmers markets, fruit, geneve, Lake Geneva, MarketDay, MarketDay - Seasonal products, Markets and food fairs, outdoor markets, suisse, Swiss, Switzerland, vegetables, Where to buy it

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