Category Archives: Cooking

Acquarello – Cucina del Sole

This week, with the kids on holidays and out of town, we finally managed to redeem a one-year-old birthday voucher for Mario Gamba’s Acquarello and had a very nice a-la-carte dinner for two.

Here’s a a few verbal and optical impressions of our very delicious self-made menu …

  • Fagottini amatriciana
  • Agnolotti del plin filled with Fassona beef on sage foam and sage butter
  • Veal chop with potato gratin and rosemary jus
  • St. Pierre fish fillet with asparagus
  • Transparent lemon fruit ravioli with yoghurt lime ice cream and coconut foam
  • Pineapple carpaccio / Mango / Coconut / Pina Colada ice cream

Sous-vide surprise

As mentioned before, I recently received and successfully used my new Anova Precision Cooker. Now, I in fact own two of them. As I had some trouble with the initial order/delivery, the Anova support team – after kindly and quickly solving the issue – generously suggested that I should keep the initial unit as a gift (thanks a lot again).
So I’m looking forward to yet more sous-vide fun in future :)

‘Mussles’ in a gogo restaurant …

… is what I just came back from! Back in Geneva, the dinner plan of the French-Danish connection was to have mussles in a gogo place in town. Sounds weird, but isn’t as bad … gogo just means all-you-can-eat for these crazy French/Swiss. Anyway we had on average three big bowles of mussles along with some fries … hmm!
And tomorrow it’s fondue night …