This Apero, Starters & Snacks section is for all the recipes I’ve created or adapted in the Taste of Savoie Kitchen and that I think will work for either an aperitif, a starter or snack.
Bon Appétit!
Five Ways with Reblochon – I’ve put together 5 recipes from my Taste of Savoie blog all using the wonderful, versatile and well-known cheese from this region – Reblochon. *Reblochon cheese gained AOC status in 1958 and was first produced in the Thônes and Arly valleys, in the Aravis in the Haute Savoie.
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I think I may be beginning to dream in French…or maybe I just dream in French cheese, especially when I eat a lot of it! Living in the Haute Savoie this is unavoidable but also delicious so I am not complaining although my jeans sometimes do! Every recipe I see with cheese in, I look for ways of adapting it to use Reblochon and other local and seasonal ingredients – it must be the time of year, as winter approaches and the snow is falling in the Alps and when all the ski resorts burst into life!
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Time to get inventive in the Taste of Savoie kitchen with the oh so delicious Savoyard staple ingredients! Reblochon cheese made here in the Haute-Savoie is the most popular cheese in the region and the star of the wonderful mountain dish the Tartiflette.
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What’s a Puntarelle you ask…this was a new for me too! It is a salad ingredient from the chicory family and seems to be unique to Italy. It is sometimes known as asparagus chicory and indeed when a local at a nearby table could see me trying to work it out with the waiter in a mixture of broken French, Italian and English, he stepped in and said this is similar to asparagus.
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I could ‘virtually’ smell this delightful soup whilst still in the research stages, that is how powerful the flavour of
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Apero time is a very serious time of day in France! This can be taken at midday just before lunch
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Tomme comes in many guises – Tomme de Savoie is a variety of Tomme cheese from The Savoie region in
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This wonderful salad is to be found on most menus in France and there are as many variations as there
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This is a simple recipe and makes a good starter or light lunch. You could use any soft melting cheese
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How to make a delicious pesto with wild garlic.
Wild Garlic in the spring. Taking walks around the Haute Savoie is truly wonderful. The breathtaking views, fresh air, mountain scenes and tranquillity of the countryside, coupled with the wildlife, flora and fauna make walking in this part of France a ‘must do’ when visiting this region.