South Tyrol – as it really tastes! One of the reasons for coming on holiday to South Tyrol is typical South Tyrolean cuisine.
It's all about genuine, traditional farm cooking that has found a place onto menus at award-winning restaurants, including dishes with the Mediterranean touch that bring a breath of fresh air to tried-and-tested traditional recipes, too! In this category, you can read about how South Tyrol's private hosts make 'knödel' dumplings, pasta and 'amore' … no – apple strudel, of course – themselves and where the dishes originally come from. So you can get to know South Tyrol through your stomach! ;-)
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Sweetens every autumn: South Tyrolean Apple Strudel – get the recipe
9/3/2015
Autumn is sweet with South Tyrolean apple strudel following a recipe by Waltraud Runggaldier – Appartements Toni in Feldthurns Crunchy red, sweet with a golden sheen or bright green and juicy. Apples are not just any old fruit in South Tyrol. They are a passion, joy and livelihood. On top of that, they are healthy and a real treat for the ...
Back to the roots! For enjoyment's sake
8/12/2015
When we go to a supermarket we can find all that we need. And lots of things that we don't need, in fact, but still feel we have to have. The questions of 'what exactly?', 'where from?', and 'who from?' fade rapidly into the background. It would not be so difficult to find the answers – and the right farm products as well. Where quality is at home ...
Make way for the berries! Long live this small, sweet fruit.
7/2/2015
One of the prettiest side valleys of Vinschgau valley runs through the middle of Stilfser Joch National Park. Its dense spruce forests, weather-beaten farmhouses and fragrant meadows stretch away into the mountains and even up as far as the foot of the Cevedale glacier. A carpet of alpine roses interspersed with bright blue lakes. Red berries ...
Margarete returns every year
3/26/2015
When, towards the end of March, the first tender asparagus heads poke through the soft earth beneath the light-proof protective film, it is time for Margarete season to begin in Terlan. This means that asparagus farmers will be very busy over the next few weeks. The fields have to be gone over every day, the earth banks uncovered, and the growing ...
Asparagus … and spring has sprung
3/25/2015
The subject of numerous songs and its praises extolled all over, asparagus from Terlan may be seen in its varied interpretations when the Terlan art dealer and restauranteur Willy Sparer requests pictures of asparagus from artists near and far. The results are displayed in his art exhibition to mark the annual opening of the asparagus season. ...
South Tyrolean delicacy – home made: ZELTEN
2/26/2015
Today’s special: „Zelten“ from Mrs. Esther Mutschlechner-Seeber from Haus Hedoné. Would you like to take a piece of South Tyrol on your Christmas arrangements? You should try your own Zelten. Esther revealed the family recipe. No food is so essential, so easy and at the same time object of many stories and legends like bread. Every culture has its ...
How to do “törggelen”
2/26/2015
Who thinks that „törggelen“ is a culinary amusement, which is held in autumn in South Tyrol, where you can easily arrive and leave by taxi or bus, is completely mistaken. It works like this: For those who don’t know „törggelen“ is well defined as the upper class of a drinking and dining spree. And the onces who’d like to follow the whole ritual ...
South Tyrolean delicacy – home made: South Tyrolian “Krapfen”
2/26/2015
Today: Two doughnuts in comparison – and an original recipe from Mrs. Erika Forcher – Haus Müller in Dorf Tirol/Tirolo!!! In South Tyrol, when you’re talking about “Krapfen” usually you think about the square, a little dry dessert filled with jam or poppy seed. You can get really addicted to this dessert. But once a year at carnival, when parades ...