Every member who comes to a meeting gets one chance for the drawing of the grand prize at the end of the year: one flight to Switzerland!!!
The enlisted attendees will be updated by email in case of a change in time or location.
June: Tuesday, 14th: Roesti night
Find out what the “Roestigraben” means, learn how to greet and say a few things about yourself in at least two of the national languages! Get to know our new meeting place for Tuesday nights. Food : bring either a Roesti dish (German part of Switzerland) or for dessert a cream pie “Gateau de Vully sucré”:
Rachel, past president of Swiss Society and her husband Andreas and baby are visiting Nashville and will be our guests. Question/answer on their experience of moving to Winterthur in Switzerland. Come with some questions and bring either an Apéro-Zopf or a cheese. Bring a wine or a non-alcoholic beverage.
Recipe for Apéro-Zopf:
For the Apéro Zopf you prepare a zopf dough and then in each of the 2 strands of dough you fill with something salty like:
Crème Fraiche. (sour cream) and prosciutto ham and swiss cheese
Or Cheese and garlic
Or Bacon bits and rosemary
Or sundried tomatoes and prosciutto or ham bits
Or whatever else savory you think is good in it……
Fill the strands and then close them up to braid so the ingredients inside are sealed. You can do the traditional zopf braid or just twist the 2 strands around each other. Basic recipe and braiding instructions
October: Tuesday, 11th: October fest
Cervelat grilling and Lagerfeuer – learn a swiss song (Reinhold’s mother’s Farm off Brick Church Pike or Warner Park.
Individual trip suggestions
July: Saturday, 30th: Individual trip to Gruetli Laager
Check the history of one of the earliest group of Swiss immigrants to this area with this celebration of 1st of August at the Stoker-Stampfli Farm Museum near Monteagle: Music, Food, Tour the Farm, Historical Info Hay Rides, Flea Market & More
