Sunday, November 16, 2008

Stockholm visit and dinner at the Knuttsons


Skal says Felix!

Peter's parents with Gunnel

Peter and Lotta

Morfar Lars with the barnbarn

Jesper!

Swedish Langfil




Fun fermented milk to play with in the bowl!

Monday, November 3, 2008

La Chaux France



Our last evening we drove to Xavier's parents house. We went to a friend's house for cheese and dessert. I should have brought my camera. They remodeled an old HUGE farm house near his parents. They had very good food but at this point I was saturated. The next day for lunch we made a fondue with his parents before leaving for the airport in Geneva. I wonderful trip. Too bad it must come to and end!
There are lots of food pictures but hey, we are food technologists. This is all in the name of education, work and pleasure.

Bain de Gruyere






Here is the really nice bath house we went to. You could soak in the warm "bain thermal" while watching the sun set over the snow capped moutains. They also had "bain nordic" the cold bath, wet and dry sauna and indoor pool. So relaxing...
http://www.bainsdelagruyere.ch/fr/

The Swiss Mountains ooo la la










After I spent the morning making beignet with a chocolate creme patisserie (the french call that easy) we took a ride to Charmey to puritfy ourselves from all the good food.


Gout et Terrior - Bulle






Xavier found out about this local Swiss food festival in the area we were going to be. They had sooo many things to try that are traditional to Switzerland or made in Switzerland. There werea few things from France. This town, Bulle, is called the place of taste! My kind of town.
I think the best thing we had was a pistachio oil and lots of good dry sausage.

Nestle Cailler Chocolate Factory





After the cheese factory the chocolate factory came next. Everything is in the same area in the "canton" of Fribourg. It was a free tour and the last until April! Smelled heavenly!