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We celebrate Cheese Fondue Day !

On April 11th, it’s Cheese Fondue Day !

Last time, we shared with you the recipe of our favorite fondue : the fondue moitié-moitié (half-half).
This year, we let you discover another recipe : the Valais tomato fondue.

– 30 g of butter
– 1 crushed garlic clove
– 1 average onion finely chopped
– 3 crushed tomatoes or 1 box of crushed tomatoes (400 g), drained
– 500 g of Valais raclette cheese AOP, grated
– 300 g of Swiss cheese AOP (Gruyère), grated
– 3 dl of Valais white wine (Fendant)
– 3 short coffee spoons of Cornstarch
– 1 small glass of kirsch
– pepper and nutmeg
– 600-800 g of jacket potatoes

Melt the butter in the heavy saucepan. Fry the garlic and the onion, then add tomatoes. Sweat briefly then add the white wine. Add cheeses and bring to a boil slowly. Move constantly. Dilute the cornstarch with the kirsch, add. Continue to move well, bring again to a boil, and season with pepper and nutmeg.

Put the heavy saucepan on the stove.

How to taste ? Each cuts some potatoes in pieces in his plate and drizzle with fondue by means of a ladle.

Enjoy your meal !

Burglind, you’re such a pain !

The storm Burglind (called also Eleanor) hit Switzerland with violence on Wednesday : winds were stormy, so strong that they even made a train go off the rails !

And since the night from Wednesday till Thursday, it’s raining, it’s raining, it’s raining… and we have almost not been going out any more for 2 days. Fields around us begin to be flooded, and several landslides or floods took place in various places in Switzerland.

Claire tries to propose us various activities so that we are not bored, but with such a weather, we prefer to sleep during the day. She manages to make us move early in the morning or at the end of the day only.

Nevertheless, I’m available at other moments ; moreover, towards midnight, I mew in front of the door of the bedroom to tell it to her. She once got up, but didn’t want to play : she was rather grumpy ! And now she doesn’t even get up any more when I call her…

Zorro is wiser : he waits until she gets up from herself during the night to invite her to play by chirping, but she doesn’t play either.

We need to know: does she want to play with us, or not ?

All good things must come to an end

All good things must come to an end, even the holidays…

Today, it’s the resumption of work for Claire. The children will go back school on August 21st, but for the teachers, it’s the moment to put themselves in the school atmosphere again, to prepare copies, to decorate the class, and to refine the welcome activities planned for the first days.

As Claire is also an executive assistant (“dean”), it’s the moment too to prepare the teachers meeting and to settle the last details of the start of the school year with the management team.

All this to tell you that she’s abandoning us all day long ! Good thing Momo is there today, but we’ll better get used to being a few hours alone from time to time again.

What do you mean, « you’re sleeping anyway » ? Absolutely not ! We are bored of every minute’s absence of our humans, but we do it with our eyes shut…

All right, we exaggerate a little, but hardly : we prefer when our humans are at home all the same, even if we’re sleeping.