Food & Recipes from the Alps

Travelling to the Alps, you will enjoy the lovely mountainscape, nice people and of course the lovely food. In this section of our MiaDeRoca-Magazine we will present you typical local recipies. Recipes for things to drink and things to eat, a wide variety of dishes with meat, with vegetabels and the so called "Mehlspeisen". "Mehlspeisen" are dishes with flour, sweet meals like the "Kaiserschmarrn", "Palatschinken" oder "Topfenknödel".
You won't be able to get all the traditional ingredients everywhere, but in cases the products are rare, we will mention some alternatives. And if you still doubt, just drop us a line, we will try to help you to get some Alpine savour to your lunch or dinner.

 

Dragon Theme Party - Dragon Food Decoration

Dragons are popular amongst kids and teens for quite a while, sure, in the last years several books and even films have put some extra fuel into the hype like Eragon, Dragon Rider, Dragonsdale, Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher and of course movies like "How to Train Your Dragon" with the little hero Hiccup. Of course there are several dragon classics like the funny dragon Elliot from the Disney movie Pete's Dragon, or the tiny Grisou, or Fuchur from the neverending story and Tabaluga.

Continue reading Comments (0) 29.01.2012. 21:47

Baked Apple Recipe

When talking about baking delights in winter many start to fantasize about cookies, fine biscuits and gingerbread and its smell which fills kitchens with the essence of the Christmas spirit. We do love them, the Christmas cookies. And besides the classic Christmas bakery there is one special Christmas desert in our family that fills the hearts with joys and cheers up the faces with a smile: the baked apple.

Continue reading Comments (0) 12.11.2011. 13:20

Quick sweet-sour-hot Bell Pepper Sauce

In the 70ies my mum used to cook Cevapcici with Ajvar. In the butcheries readily seasoned Cevapcici could be bought - lying next to Shaslik skewers. Ajvar was taking home from holidays. Classic Ajvar as you may know it from vacations in Slovenia is made with lots of red bell peppers, some aubergine, chili and garlic and you boil and stir slowly for a very long time. I did change this sauce and made a very quick vegetable sauce featuring red bell pepper which you can combine with meatballs, minced meat patties or frikadeller. The quickly prepared bell pepper sauce is a great alternative to tomato sauces or ketchup.

Continue reading Comments (0) 11.10.2011. 14:31

Wild Garlic Spaetzle (Dumplings)

When wild garlic is growing, snow flakes and snow drops are gone, and as soon as there is no more snow to see and the sun is shining, then we are ready to pick it. We love these first wild herbs and we use wild garlic in many dishes be it wild garlic spreads, wild garlic pesto or directly to spice up normal dishes, like the delicious wild garlic Spaetzle. Spätzle are also called Nocken, Spatzl, Spatzen, and are a form of dumpling, some small as your finger tip, and some big as fingers like in this recipe.

Continue reading Comments (0) 23.03.2011. 18:25

Herb Spread

A freshly made spread of curd (Topfen or Quark) with some herbs is sometimes called spring spread. If you have some herbs in your garden or on the balcony and some milk products you can right away prepare this yummy, refreshing spread rich in vitamins for a nice "Brotzeit" (snack time). Yes this is another recipe for our popular series of snack recipes.

Continue reading Comments (0) 29.06.2009. 14:11

Wild Garlic Spread

Depending on the weather conditions it might be perfect already in February, sometime in March, but most probably by April, it is time. Small, green leaves grow out of the soil, at places where we had snow a few days ago. We are looking for a very special delight to our tastebuds: wild garlic.

Continue reading Comments (1) 16.03.2009. 17:14

Liptauer

Everywhere where your can take a Snack (Jause or Brotzeit) you will probably find the very popular Liptauer - a paprika red cheese spread directly from the Austro-Hungarian (K&K) - Cuisine. Once you have gathered all the ingredients it is quick and easy to prepare it tastes deliciously on brown bread as well as on white bread, as snack or for dinner or as side dish accompanying spicy Hungarian goulash. And it tastes lovely together with beer or wine, therefore often seen in beer gardens or at Heuriger (Austrian Tavern for wine drinking)

Continue reading Comments (0) 18.02.2009. 10:05