Food!

It might not be the best part of exchange, but it is certainly the most delicious! More About the food in the last couple of weeks! Coming to you in four parts.

Part I: Cheese attack
Most people know the classic stereo type of swiss food (also known as cheese and chocolate). I am here to tell you the main food groups of Swiss people. Bread, vegetables, cheese, chocolate, potatoes, and you have your 5 food groups. Last week we had a traditional Swiss winter meal, Rachelett (as you should know by know this is probably spelled wrong). It is a wheel of cheese cut in half and placed under a hot rod. The top of the cheese start melting and than you scrape the top onto a plate and enjoy, see picture below. Tomorrow night we are having Fondue for the first time. I am very excited.

Part II: Oma's Desserts
Every Thursday I go to Oma's house for lunch, she feeds more than Mrs. Claus feeds Santa! It is so cool to have grandparents live one minute away instead of 8 hours away. Oma always cooks amazing food, but I am astonished at the fact that every time I come over she has a new dessert made from hand, completely different from any of the other weeks. I am secretly convinced she has a whole room in the house full of recipes. I will list what she has cooked so far. An apple pie (less sweet than what we have in America, just as tasty), homemade apple sauce (but dessert like) with a whip cream(ish) topping, apple cakes (fried apples that taste like cake on the outside and doughnuts on the inside, a different type of apple sauce. I am realizing now that I think Oma really likes apples...

Part III: Editors Choice Awards (soooooouuuuuuppppp)
One of my favorite things about Fall is the warm foods that warm your soul on cold and rainy days. This week I had two soups that were amazing. The first was a thick pumpkin soup that my Host mother made. It tasted wonderful. The second was a potato ginger soup I bought for lunch at the store. It was the relaxed attitude of potatoes with a slap in the face once the ginger hit you. We also cooked these cookies last week, I am not sure how to describe them so look at the picture!

Part II*II: Cooking
My friend from Syria and I cooked two days last week. On Monday we fabricated classic Baked Mac 'n Cheese. It was amazing and reminded me of getting home from climbing on a winter day to find that Mom had made one of my favorite meals. Afterwards we also baked cupcakes. They were vanilla orange cupcakes with chocolate chips inside and a chocolate glaze atop. On Friday I went to Torin's small apartment and cooked Syrian food with her. We baked rice, a lentil soup, and okra in tomato sause. To eat you would take a spoonful of rice and put a piece of okra on it. Delicious!