Just started this thread to share the best dishes u like out of the various stalls at different places in Autumn fair in Basel....also if you can classify wether these dishes are Veg/Non Veg / Gluten free/ contains nuts etc...i.e. the info which is normally not mentioned on these stalls :-) it will help some of the EFers who may need this...
Dear All,
Heissi Marroni: veg, gluten free, contains nuts
That was quick ;-)
I tried one of those chocolate covered meringue like thingies....I tried the crocant paid 1.50...It was soooooo yummy!, nothing like the prepacked stuff!. Hopefully husband will take me to herbstmese tomorrow
I think it is veg BUT contained nuts (hence the crocant thing)
I'm not sure what your level of Swissness is (and whether you know what "heissi marroni" means"), but in case you haven't actually seen them cooking away, they're roasted chestnuts -- just like in ol' Blighty. So, yes, they're veg, GF, and made entirely of nuts, as is MathNut.
And even if you can't stand the taste of them (like me), the little stalls are great to sidle up to on a cold winter's day for a blast of warmth to reinvigorate frozen bones.
Oh yes, and my favourite Herbstmesse food: the ubiquitous, non-seasonal klöpfer (grilled pork/veal sausage), with a rough chunk of bread and both senf und ketchup, bitte. Non-veg, probably not gluten-free, and doesn't contain nuts. Also not kosher nor halal. But really delicious.
And I'm so thankful they're not seasonal!
They are nothing like "in ol' Blighty". They are 100 times better in Switzerland.
They are fresh, juicy, tasty and not full of grubs.
But, as you don't like them, you can be excused for not knowing this.
Thanks for suggestion! I never know what to choose... especially sausages... I end up taking always the same bratwurst
The good news is that almost all sausages in Switzerland (unlike those from a couple of island nations somewhere vaguely to the north of here) are gluten free, as long as you leave the bread-flavoured rock behind.
Which is rather nice.
But I kind of like those 'bread-flavoured rocks'! (They sure beat much of what commonly passes for "bread" in the US.)
Which is rather nice -- the good news, or the bread-flavoured rock? (Both, in my opinion.)
We tried to make the most of the food at the festival - Had Klopfer and Merguez sausages, raclette platter, crepe with banana, nutella and pudding (loved the pudding!!), amaretto 'kiss' (like a tunnocks teacake), popcorn, sampled cheeses - I think that's it. We were stuffed when we passed the apple fritters drowned in Vanilla custard and the chinese stalls and the malaysian stall and..........
When is the next festival!!!!
We didn't have roasted chestnuts but I do love chestnuts. My new fave is coops bio chestnut yogurt - so yummy and its the flavor of the month (november) so we have to eat it while its here!! In fact I think I'll have one right now.............
The roasted chestnuts were just opportunistic festival leeches. You can get them at little stalls all throughout the freezing cold winter months (so until next June).
Right. Then they start up again when the cold weather returns, in July.
Yay!! I love autumn and winter so a short summer is fine by me.