Foraging and finding – Fir tip honey

May 6, 2018 by nadel&gabel

Long time no see, he? Yes, this has been a quiet place for a long time, although this doesn’t mean that I haven’t cooked, knitted or sewed. But priorities had shifted during the last months. After our movement we were busy making our house a home. And then came April… oh, this extraordinary warm summer-like April, and most of I could think of was our garden. We did a lot of unweeding, sowing and planting. We furnished our terrace, build […]

Categories: breakfast, dairy-free, diets, gluten-free, In the kitchen, pantry, seasons, spread, sauce & spice, spring, vegan, vegetarian • Tags: blog, conifer, cough, fir, green, healing, honey, inspiration, natural, pine, preserving, spring, spruce, syrup, tips, wood

Into the Krauts – Golden and red Sauerkraut

November 19, 2017 by nadel&gabel

5 1/2 years of food blogging and quite some more of cooking … it took such a long time for me to attempt one of the most iconic German dishes, Sauerkraut. The ‘Krauts‘ – the view from outside doesn’t leave any doubts. Although Germans weren’t the first that developed the idea of lacto-fermented cabbage. I, for my share, have made already a few experiences with wild fermentation – homemade yoghurt, Kimchi ,water kefir -, learned about the health benefits, especially for digestion and […]

Categories: around the world, autumn, dairy-free, diets, German/Swabian, gluten-free, In the kitchen, pantry, salad, seasons, spread, sauce & spice, vegan, vegetable, vegetarian, winter • Tags: bacteria, beetroot, cabbage, carrot, cumin, fermentation, fermented, flavour, german, ginger, healthy, Kraut, lactic acid, pantry, probiotic, recipe, Sauerkraut, turmeric, vitamin, winter

Sunny yellow – Pickled turmeric eggs

April 9, 2017 by nadel&gabel

Right for the Easter holidays the sun is coming out, bringing the nature to sprout and blossom. The warming sun goes straight into our heart after the long winter cold. The landscape is covered in green, white and yellow. And what would the Easter holidays be without coloured eggs that have to be searched for in the fresh grass? These pickled eggs aren’t hard to find, the bright yellow colour guides the way! But the turmeric doesn’t give them only […]

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Bittersweet symphony – Orange marmalade

January 22, 2017 by nadel&gabel

Bitterness these days seems to be a (global) social diagnosis. Hostility and anxiety are spreading and seem to poison peaceful living together. Sometimes you just want to resign, withdraw from all the … This point has to be overcome. And it will be. Not at once, not by a single person,… … but bitterness can be transformed into courage, it can awaken good forces, strengthen people and bring them together in opposition, articulating loudly their vision of a tolerant, understanding, […]

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Summer sandwich – Easy Chicken Bánh Mì

June 28, 2015 by nadel&gabel

After talking a lot about Bánh Mì lately, I guess it’s time now to provide you with a recipe – although it is more rough notes than exact quantities. Bánh Mì – the Vietnamese adaption of a baguette sandwich – can be made in numerous variations. With or without pâté, with grilled pork, chicken or tofu, with different pickled vegetables. The essential ingredients that make a Bánh Mì a Bánh Mì are: baguette (crunchy outside, soft inside), sweet and sour […]

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About traditions – Pickled pink radishes

June 23, 2015 by nadel&gabel

These radishes have soon become a staple in our household, since I made them for the first time a few months ago. I planned to make a Bánh Mì sandwich. And when I walked around the market and looked for daikon radishes, I saw instead the first cute little pink radishes. They were fresh, they were from the farmer in the next village, they were radishes – what did I want more? – I had to use them instead. It […]

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Preserving flavour – How I store herbs

March 28, 2015 by nadel&gabel

After posting the herbed pasta recipe last week, I thought it maybe would be convenient to tell you a little bit about how I store and preserve my herbs. We don’t have a garden or balcony (yet?), so I am always limited with growing my own herbs (Only rosemary survived the winter on at the kitchen window :(.) But these days, the farmer’s markets are displaying an expanding range of fresh herbs. But how to keep them if you don’t […]

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Self-confessed sissi – Mak kimchi

October 12, 2014 by nadel&gabel

For some reason I forwent kimchi for long. I had read and heard a lot about it, but somehow it didn’t sound – and look – appealing to me. Fermenting in general always frightens me a bit, I guess. In retrospect this is quite funny cause it was only a bit later that I realized that our – and my – beloved German Sauerkraut is prepared actually the same way… It took Julia from “Chestnut&Sage” – a blogger that I […]

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Hello autumn – Pickled mushrooms with dill

September 11, 2014 by nadel&gabel

How did it come that autumn suddenly is here in full bloom? – Where was transition that made it easier for us to say good bye to summer once again? Speaking in farmers market display: When have cherries been sold? – How come the sudden presence of plums, pumpkins, mushrooms, apples? Whatever! – We have to accommodate. …And already when I sat at the airport of Stockholm this recipe for pickled mushrooms caught my eye. During our whole stay in […]

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