Say CHEESE

About cheese....there is a lot to say.... Let`s start where i started: Basic, really basic, didn`t touch too much of soft cheese like Brie, and god forbit sheeps cheese. I ate Emmentaler cheese and Parmesano on top of my pasta, that was pretty much it...till...
That all changed when we moved to Cheese country. My first addiction was for Gruyère cheese, you can buy it at different ages and its flavour changes with age. I like the sligtly salty taste. Gimme a piece of Gruyère and some bread and my meal is made.
Some change i thought i would never make in taste came up with sheeps cheese. I am not a Sheep lover when it comes to meat, i don`t like the sheep taste. So i never really touched sheeps cheese. But recently i come closer to love it. With garlic, pure, or some Cranberrys. Its a great taste and the best thing, Nicky can eat it too, no cows milk !!!
Another "rule" i had before was "if it stinks, i don`t eat". That has changed too, i am going to the cheese shop now and try different cheeses and i am always taking a stinky one too. They are so great in taste, melting in your mouth ...mmmhhh...very yummy.
And if you add a great bottle of wine, more a milder one ...it rounds a great evening up.

More to come from cheese country :) Have a "cheesy" day.

Grüezi from cheese country

It has been way too long since i posted. Today I want to write about our new home country Switzerland, the country I fell in love instantly and finally feel like I arrived in my life.

It will be a year in February that we moved from Germany to Switzerland, to this tiny village just outside from Basel; where you can find probably more cows and sheep around you then people. Where life is slow and the air is filled with silence and the taste of nature; and where people count vine, chocolate and cheese as basic foods.

I have to say that I discovered my love for cows J Not that I want one, but I cannot pass by and not look at them. The different kinds and the fact that they spend most of the year outside up the hills gives you the good feeling of being the closest to nature you can get.

Today I went horseback riding and it was so beautiful. I went all the way up on the hills overlooking our valley. I stopped there and it was the feeling of freedom you only can get on the back of a horse. The view of little farms, villages, busy farmers on the fields, cows and sheep are something I wish I could share with you, it’s indescribable.

I want to write a little more about food and wine within the next days, so stay tuned.