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Schinkenfleckerl Bolzano Style

In South Tyrol we came across a variation of Schinkenfleckerl. The Bolzano style. Here is how it is done: Sweat minced onions. Add small cubed pieces of cooked ham. Add minced chive. and the noodles (Fleckerl) Mix everything and let it sweat. Add some roux and stirr. Mix in the egg yolk And add beaten whites. Put the mixture into a fire-proof bowl add some grinded Parmesan cheese and let it granite for about 20 minutes. Ready! Enjoy your meal! Thanks again to Wirtshaus Vögele in Bozen for showing us!

Bolzano Sauce

In South Tyrol we heard about a new dish with asparagus: Asparagus with Bolzano Style Sauce Of course we had to know how this sauce is made… So here it goes: Cook eggs, let them cool and peel them Part the egg yolk from the egg white. And cut the egg white into small peaces. Mince the egg yolk. Put some mustard to it. Add some minced chive. and some vinegar Add a little bit of the asparagus water. And add some mayonnaise. And stirr. until it is a nice sauce Then add the minced egg white. Ready! Arrange and serve! Enjoy! Thanks to Wirtshaus Vögele in Bozen for showing us!

Bolzano – The best from two cultures

Bolzano. Bolzano lies in the middle of South Tyrol between Austria and Italy. You can feel that. A lot is very Italian; but also South Tyrolian. But it is not a melting pot. The cultures do not mix but exist peacefully side by side. You can see that everywhere. All the signs are bilingual: German and Italian. Everything and really everything which can or must be labeled is bilingual. Whether the sticker on the fuse box or just the note „push“ at a door. Does not matter! Every advertisement exists double and also the announcement for the next stop at the bus. Only graffiti we have not seen in double language. This might be the only exception… Bozen is really cozy. Here you will slow down like in the whole valley. Also here you will find old houses to admire. Not only in the old town. There are also some

A whole region is wine

All around the Kalterer See in the area around Bolzano you can’t escape the wine. Everywhere grows vine. Everywhere you see wine. At every corner you can taste wine. There are wine taverns for drinking wine. You can walk wine hiking trails or go vine learning paths. And it seems that every day there are at least three events concerning the subject. You cannot get away from it. Everybody talks about it. You get a very long wine list at the restaurants and in most of them the service staff is very competent. Everything here breathes wine… We were very lucky and could meet several wine-grower and now our new hobby is wine yard walking. Steve Jobs is known for having done alle meetings while walking. But when you do it in a vine yard it gets even more intense. We learned so much about the history of wine in

The pottery factory in Lagoa

On the Azores island Sao Miguel some might have noticed these beautiful road signs made out of white tiles with a dark blue painting. These tiles you can also find in churches or chapels or on walls of houses where they show complete scenes. If you want to know how they are made you should visit the workshop Viera in Lagoa. Here you can see the nearly the whole production. The clay comes from the island but has to be mixed with water so that it gets the perfect texture. Then the clay goes to the different work stations. At one place it will be cast. Here mostly hollow pieces are formed. After the casting each peace has to be reworked and finished. At the factory you will see hundreds of different forms. At another station clay is formed on a potter’s wheel. Here also wonderful pieces are made like

Culinary Arts on Sao Miguel

Every country and each region has their own culinary delicacies. Also on Sao Miguel connoisseurs get one’s moneys worth. Cheese When you drive around on the island or are hiking you might notice a lot of cows. Those cows deliver much milk. And from that many different excellent cheeses are made. Directly besides the market hall in Ponta Delgada we discovered a cheese shop which was not only stacked up to the ceiling with shelves full of cheese but also offered more than 40 different varieties. We choose ten, e.g. we asked the sales person to pick ten for us. All of them very really yummy. A nice regional bread to go with it. Fantastic! Fresh fish For the main course we searched for fresh fish and found it everywhere. At the Azores there is a wide fishing area and nearly all fish offered was caught fresh and near the

Europes only tea plantation

There is indeed a tea plantation in Europe. And that is on the Azores island Sao Miguel. The hedge like tea bushes grow in rows but also in wave like patterns on the hills in the village Riviera Grande. 7 years the plants have to grow before you can start harvesting. Then they are harvested every 2 or 3 weeks from April until October. After that the plants may rest and are even allowed to bloom. But this will happen in December. Exceptionally we were allowed to drive into the plantation with a tractor and watch the harvesting. Harvesting is not done any more by tender women’s hands but with a kind of a hedge trimmer. A handful of men carry the heavy machine some centimeters above the bushes and thereby cut the upper leaves of the tea plant. Thus only the fresh green leaves are harvestet. The first three

The East Coast from Sao Miguel by Rental Car

Our second day on Sao Miguel started again with a rainbow over the bay of our hotel. What else do you need? Some clouds were in the sky but they disappear quite fast on the Azores. We started from our hotel Caloura and set our satnav to ‚avoid highway‘. The small and curvy roads are much more interesting. In Villa Franca do Campo we stopped to have one of these local tiny coffees called ‚bica‘. The places in the middle of a village are often very nicely designed have a small garden or park and the church fronts are wide. The flagging has a variety of pattern. We drove on to Furnas. Every now and then there is a parking lot or a lay by with a wonderful surrounding an a nice view. It is worth a stop. You should get out of the car and have a look. If

Discover Sao Miguel by rental car

On our first morning after arrival we were so curious about the Azore’s island Sao Miguel that we startet with our rental car to drive along the west coast. After we left Caloura we already found the first sign „Miradouro“. So we went there, because this is for „view“. And of course we had a great view from up there and there also has been a nice pick nick place. Here everything is very green… We took the small coastal road towards Ponta Delgada and suddenly spotted a nice beach in Livramento on the left. Black sand with a pink stripe. The pink colour comes from thousands of tiny shells. We were all alone at the beach and it is quite long and just wonderful. At the end of the beach you can spot a tongue. We drove some hundred meters to Rost Do Cao and climbed on the rocks.

Sugar Cane at Madeira

We were quite buffeled when we learned that on Madeira not only sugar cane is still grown but also processed in a small factory. So we had to see that. First of all we looked for a sugar cane field. How does it look like? Long poles. Right. But. We were surprised to see that they are kind of purple. But nice. They feel hard and the leaves have sharp edges. Shortly before harvesting the bushy leaves are taken off. A hard work. Not only because it is done by hand without any tool but the fields are nearly all at a steep slope. Without the leaves the canes stay some time on the field so that they can develop more sweetness. After that they are harvested and carried by lorry to the sugar cane factory. All the sugar cane is processed on the island. Nothing is being exported. The sugar