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MarketDay - Seasonal products

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

Tempted by Tentation apples

10/12/2009 by Ellen Wallace

by Ellen Wallace New variety of apples available in Switzerland: Tentation I’m fussy about apples because I grow my own, four varieties, and I find too many supermarket apples soft or tasteless or too sweet or too acidic. New apples are constantly being developed, but like many consumers, I’m set in my ways and am […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Apple, Foodie news and events, Galmac, Leman Fruits, MarketDay - Seasonal products, Pomme-Tentation, Tentation, Where to buy it

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

Swiss tasting week: La Semaine du Goût

19/09/2009 by Ellen Wallace

The annual La Semaine du Goût started today in Switzerland, and runs until 27 September 2009. Each canton offers an uncanny variety of activities for adults and children alike. From tasting workshops and cooking classes, to biodynamic growing techniques and wine making and tasting and even markets: there is truly something for everyone. Just click […]

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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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