kleeblatt

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.

jmw44

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.

BTilke

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.

suze

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!!!

kleeblatt

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.

kleeblatt

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.