Recently, I posted Sourdough bread and other bread recipes in my older posts. Now how to store this delicious homemade bread to make it last longer and still keep fresh. I know 3 different ways to store bread and have been following it now for 2 decades. Apart from tips on how to store bread, I will review 2 top brands of bread storage systems here.
After a successful gardening year in 2018 Organic-vegetable-harvest with the help of our temporary greenhouse. We decided to build a new permanent greenhouse this year. There are many reasons to build a greenhouse or a hot house as it used to be called in days of yore. In this post I will be citing 3 main reasons to build a greenhouse and why we built ours. I will also touch on the subsidiary reasons pertaining to these main ones.
The laws in Switzerland are very strict with regard to building regulations. More over we have a stream flowing through our plot, so it makes it even more difficult. In the meantime our immediate neighbor built a garden shed last autumn adjacent to our plot. So that kind of gave us the hope that our new permanent green house wouldn’t be an objection to the planning authorities.
Although I am not a medical expert, yet who can debate the benefits of home ground flour. My journey started with the purchase of my Hawos Oktagon grain mill. I posted a Hawos Oktagon stone mill Tutorial in my previous blog post. In this blog post I will be touching on the Top 3 benefits of grinding your own flour at home. I will also be giving a few tips on storing grains optimally and then a recipe to bake your own bread from freshly ground flour.
Freshly milled flour has many benefits. We at the Swiss home are proud owners of Hawos Oktagon Stone Grain mill for more than a decade. I have been grinding my own flour for our breads, cakes and pizzas to name a few since I got this grain mill. Admitted this mill is not cheap to buy but in the long run it pays of with the many benefits of freshly ground flour at your fingertips.
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Switzerland is probably world famous for their Rolex and their Swiss Army knives. Likewise, in this blog post I will reveal more of Swiss quality and innovation also in their Kitchen tools. I have many favorites here and therefore it was difficult to pick my list of top 10 Swiss made kitchen essentials to suit any kitchen or cuisine. As a result of living for more than 2 decades in Switzerland I have a lot of Swiss kitchen essentials to write about.
Swiss grocery shopping is getting more and more complicated with many new German players who have entered the Swiss market. We at the Swiss home seldom shop at super markets. Early on we used to order organic food from farmers together with friends to make it more cost effective and economical. This was at a time when organic food was seldom available and an exclusivity of only the health food stores.
Over the past 2 decades, things have changed and we have easy access to high quality organic food all over Switzerland.
In this blog post I will compare and review two of my Ultra Wet grinders. Ultra Fast grind versus Ultra Pride. Some weeks back I posted a review on the latest Ultra wet grinder called Fast grind Ultra Fastgrind wet grinder review. In a previous post, I also wrote about the benefits of wet grinding so I won’t be going into those details here.
Minimalist Christmas gift ideas when its maximum gifts the kids want. How do we change that ? Well since I have only one child we have been for the last 2 years toning it down. My daughter will of course wish for a maximum of Christmas gifts for herself. I personally like to give homemade Christmas gifts to my friends and a little cash for their kids. Its difficult to get gifts for our friends teenage sons, so cash is the best.
Baking Christmas presents is something I got hooked since decades now. One of our favorite Advent bakes are these Christmas Orange drop biscuits. Its customary to bake during Advent to take our mind off the long cold and dark nights. Comfort food during winter is not something I feel guilty about.
Bake this egg-less Christmas cake ahead and your dessert is sorted without any stress on the great day itself. I have been baking this egg-less Christmas cake recipe for the past 20 years. What is Christmas without a Christmas cake or pudding which is specially made for us to enjoy on this day. This is a must in our home every year for Christmas. This cake is very much a fool proof recipe.
