Epic Salad!

New Sausage

Classic breakfast sausage links.  Bit saltier than bratwurst.  Boring and maybe I over seasoned the food.

Cune Rioja

Citrus after first then woody and a rather bitter aftertaste.

Let it breath a bit and the taste really smooths over.  Nothing biting.  Rather, overwhelmingly clean blend of the flavors.

New Table!

Thanks Bart!  I think I like this better than the old one.

Most Expensive Sardines

These were the most expensive sardines I could buy at 2.60 SFr.  They were much less fishy.  I forget the brand.

Marie Elisabeth

Sardines are a great source of protein in a pinch.  Mostly they are packed in oil and sealed.  One package is about 2 SFr containing four filets with total calorie content of about 200 (65% fat).  These are pretty light on the oil.  They taste very much like tuna and not at all (salty) like anchiovies.  I put these in my salads for a nicoise sort of feeling.  The bones are surprisingly unnoticeable.

Laugen Brochten?

Pretzel bread is delicious.  Light dough with medium density and a bit of salt.  This one cost 1 SFr.  I recommend picking them up from corner bakeries rather than mass markets.

Senf/Moutard

The mustard looks like paint tubes.  It comes in all sorts of flavors, qualities, and strengths.  This one is regular strong (forte).  I like to put it on salad.

Bratwurst and Onion

Bought three of these brats for 25% off 4.50 at Coop.  Grilled up a .15 SFr onion that I bought from a corner store (even on a Sunday!) just using the fat from the meat.  Healthy amounts of sharp mustard on top.

A very basel sunset

From st.alban.

Chateau Pech-Latt

8 SFr on sale.  Very grapey smelling.  Not really sweet, mostly acidic, like the skin of a grape.

die pop

1670

Brain Ticket

Butt Spencer

Tiki Bar

4.5 SFr beers and some crazy shit drinks.  Often unopen but I guess when it does all sorts of artsy strange people attend.  And they are very friendly!  Lots of mixing of old and young.  The music varied between good and bad.  The idea is that whoever wants to brings their 7"s and plays them.  Lots of solid soul but also lots of more mainstream (but not current) stuff.  Not a deterrent.

Ce vin c'est merde.

7.90 at the corner store.  Unfortunately everything closes by 7PM so if you need to buy something say goodbye to Migros and Coop.  Doesn't smell like anything really.  Tastes somehow exceedingly warm and musty.  After taste is balls.

Gravensteiner apple

Kind of like a macintosh but not as sweet.  Very similar texture, color and size but a bit stranger in shape.  3.20 per kilo.

Domaine de la Vallongue

Seeing as I don't speak French I don't know anything about this wine.  I got it from Coop on sale for about 6.50.  It's got a nice alcoholic smell and bit of a sour taste.  The after taste rings a bit of wet dog.