The idea Is there anything more beautiful than starting your weekend with a delicious sweet and hearty outdoor breakfast with your family and friends in the apple garden? Well, there is: if you prepare it with the unique products of this area. The ingredients for a perfect brunch are apples, jam made of local strawberries, apricots, cherries or forest fruits, a hearty cauliflower cake, bacon and DOP cheese. These typical products from Val Venosta are supplemented by milk, tea, coffee, yoghurt, apple juice, rustic bread, grain rolls or rye bread with cumin and fennel seeds.

The mise en place The mise en place is very easy. If there is a table, you just need one or more tablecloths. You can decorate it with a bunch of freshly picked meadow flowers for a colorful touch. Alternatively, your brunch can also become a funny picnic. All you need is a large blanket, colorful baskets of various sizes or just wooden crates that you can first use for comfortably transporting your food and then for positioning your delicacies on typical wooden cutting boards. There’s nothing easier than that if you wish to spend a nice day in good company...

The recipes And now you still need some suggestions for tasty recipes with typical products to surprise your guests with simplicity.

• Sandwiches with apples, Stelvio cheese and bacon
• Cauliflower crumble with gorgonzola and walnuts
• Yoghurt cake with strawberries

What are you waiting for? Now the guests can come!