Kippers

No, I didn't actually split, gut, salt and smoke these herrings myself. I just bought a can of it, served is on whole grain rye bread and garnished it with chives from the newly installed balcony herb garden.


This is being one of the kinds of foods possible in my currently unfinished kitchen...

Herbs

With the small balcony of the new dwelling facing south it was decided to try to profit a bit over the summer by growing some herbs in wall-mounted box. So far they're doing quite well - the second picture was taken a couple of weeks after planting them. From left to right it is: basil, cilantro (coriander), mint, oregano, flat leaf parsley, and chives.

Bavarian Beer

Returning for more (relatively) local beer options I found these three, all hailing from Bavaria, Germany. I have been a fan of Paulaner Weissbier for quite some time, but their lager isn't bad either and on sale at 0.85 CHF per 0.5 L can it presents me an offer I can't refuse.

Löwenbräu is another beer from Munich, quite good too, but I haven't seen it as cheap yet. Interestingly, their Weissbier is also available in 0.5 L cans, but it seems to me the can prevents you from pouring the beer in the proper way, so I refrain from buying those.

Gralsburg is easily the cheapest of the pack, but also easily the least interesting of them. Given the wide array of other options I think I'll be spending my hard-earned CHFs otherwise..

Atomic Ginger

You may be familiar with the curiously strong ginger ales that result when the producers insist on cramming the equivalent of 25 grams (close to 1 oz) of fresh ginger into a standard bottle of the stuff. Imagine then concentrating a similar amount of ginger into a mere ball of ice cream sorbet .. the result brings colour to your face and sweat to your brow:


This concocted was served me as dessert at the Restaurant la Croix-Fédérale in Hermance, Switzerland along the southern shore of Lac Léman close to the border to France.

Yes, I know this is yet another post of me not cooking, but I don't have functioning kitchen in my new apartment yet - a subject I'll probably return in later posts.