It's venison and game time in Switzerland
 

Going to Switzerland soon? Fall is the season for venison and game dishes in many restaurants. You can get deer/chamois(small mountain goats) schnitzel (cutlets), entrecote or Pfeffer (meat marinaded in a sour/wine sauce for a few days). Served with homemade noodles (Spaetzli or Knoepfli) hot blue cabbage, brussel sprouts and delicious chestnuts. You usually drink wine or "Sauser" with it. Sauser is a fizzy red grape juice only available in the fall season.

The venison and game is all local and the restaurants buy the meat from local hunters.

I just had some last night and it was great.

I so enjoy your vignettes of the good life in Switzerland, schuler. In fact, I wish you were a blogger. This morning and all of last night I sat in the dark and the heat, fretting through another storm near miss. Tree limbs down all over the place; a broken window or two; our effects are those of a tropical storm. Too soon to check the roof for holes. Wish I were in Switzerland. J.

It will soon be game season in Germany, Austria and Belgium as well (if it hasn't started already). Actually, some game, like boar, is served year-round in Belgium because the boar are so numerous in the Ardennes hunting goes on all year.

How about that wonderful cabbage sausage dish the cafes make? And venison stew?

<You usually drink wine> that would be EVERYthing I eat en Suisse -LOL. Thanks for the delicious post Schuler!!!

I believe that cabbage sausage dish is found in the French part of Switzerland. We have a different version in this area called Hafe Chabis, made with lamb or pork and cabbage. You fry up the meat and the cabbage and put it into a soup/gravy sauce. It's served with potatoes.

Either you love or you hate it. Luckily for me, my family loves it.

jmw44: Sorry to hear about the storm. I hope there wasn't too much damage to your house or neighborhood. Hurricane Rita has been in all of our papers and news.