Romanticizing Rösti

For our inaugural culinary journey, we’ve decided to get a crack at making smoked salmon potato rösti with the jewels of breakfast – poached eggs. Breakfast is also not breakfast without my specialty avocado roses. Rösti is the Swiss version of hash browns and is the national dish of Switzerland. For those of you who know Marché/Mövenpick know exactly of the delightful crispy, buttery and salty rösti potato pie, garnished simply with a dollop of sour cream and chives. Heavenly.

Rösti tip: use the correct potato = russet! and remember to squeeze all of the water out, so dry it in between dish towels.

Avo Rose tip: pick soft and ripe avocados so that you can slice them very thinly – this will give you many layers to your rose and facilitate the beautiful shape. spread them into a long caterpillar and start turning it round and round from the smaller end. lastly, push down on the avo petals to achieve a blossom!

Poached Egg tip: no matter how fun it is, do not swirl the boiling water and create any sort of typhoon, tornado, or hurricane formations. depending on the level of runniness you prefer, scoop them out carefully and pat them dry. (pro tip: use a separator sieve to discard any water content from egg content if you are feeling obnoxious)

Something exciting happened earlier on the day that prevented me from assuming head chef duties. Although, new shiny kitchen tools seem cool and fun to play with, do not by any cricumstance, shave off the tip of your finger and nail with a peeler!

To end the night off, I conducted our first smudging ceremony. I’ve recently be manifesting my spiritual self and have been practicing meditation and yoga more and more. Smudging is an ancient ritual practiced by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas which involves burning of sacred herbs for spiritual cleansing or blessing. It is also sometimes referred to as an “energy shower” which helps rid of negative energy and invite positive light and vibrations into our mind, body and soul. The burning of dried white sage or palo santo wood which translates to “holy stick” cleanses the air of bacteria for 24 hours! Breathing in these incredible scents during our meditative deep breathing clears our airway passages and helps bring calm and grounding energy which concludes our night. We make ourselves some hot tea and turmeric golden milk.

Smudging tip: open windows a crack to allow all negative energy to escape and new positive energy to cleanse our space. have a lit candle as this provides a steady source of flame.

Golden Milk recipe: perfect warm treat with anti-inflammatory benefits