Eating in the Swiss Alps, Part 2

Arosa, a mountain resort town in the easternmost canton of Switzerland, Graubünden, is popular in both the summer and winter for recreation. Last winter, I spent a weekend there with friends for a couple days of skiing and some really great mountain food! The first meal pictured below is of alpler magronen, also known as aelpler makkaroni; as I mentioned in part 1, this traditional Swiss mountain food is a macaroni and cheese-like dish consisting of pasta, potato, bacon/ham, and cheese served with a side of apple sauce. I enjoyed this incredible, hearty dish at Carmenna-Hütte on the side of the mountain.

On our second day of skiing, we stopped into another mountain-side restaurant, Alpenblick, where I ate half of a rotisserie chicken that was cooking right outside on the restaurants deck. This was quite possibly the best rotisserie chicken I have ever eaten. This was a locally raised chicken, roasted with fresh rosemary and served with a delicious salad of lambs lettuce and shredded carrots, fennel and roasted beets. I also had a couple glasses of jagertee (jaeger-tay), a delicious blend of hot, black tea and rum with some other tasty spices - the name is slightly misleading, there is no Jaegermeister in this drink. This was a perfect warming drink that I actually prefer to glühwein, another favorite winter drink of mine popular in Germany. Glühwein is hot, mulled wine.

Enjoy the pictures!