Hybrid – Udon salad with tofu

August 27, 2016 by nadel&gabel

Weariness and laziness are creeping in. It’s probably the heat (Who would have believed that we would have such a series of hot summer days at the end of August once again?), while already the first signs of autumn are visible. The prospect of a regular schedule of work that is coming closer again, the slightly rising pressure to get started again. Fatigue and melancholy. Somewhere in between… …like this salad which is kind of a hybrid between Heidis famous otsu […]

Categories: around the world, dairy-free, In the kitchen, pasta, salad, summer, vegan, vegetable, vegetarian • Tags: Asian, cilantro, cold, comfort food, coriander, easy, freestyle, fresh, Japan, juice, lime, noodle, otsu, recipe, salad, sesame, soy sauce, tofu, udon

Simple, savoury, summer – Tomato galette

August 12, 2016 by nadel&gabel

  How can you walk past tomatoes these days on the farmers market? The choice is overwhelming – from the big Coeur de Boeuf to the small Black Zebra: every occasion and purpose, every taste finds its variety. And neither of them needs lots of special treatment. They’re best at this season as pure as they are. Some flakes of sea salt, perhaps a touch of herbs – in summer we don’t need to be complicated. This tomato galette is as […]

Categories: cake, cookie & dessert, In the kitchen, pizza, quiche & tart, seasons, summer, vegetable, vegetarian • Tags: basil, cheese, cream cheese, easy, galette, herb, pie crust, recipe, San Marzano, simple, summer, summer of galettes, tarte, tomato, Yossy Arefi

Kefi in da house – Water kefir lemonade with peach and hibiscus flower

July 31, 2016 by nadel&gabel

Since a few months we have a pet living with us: His name is Kefi, he is a water kefir. He wants to be fed regularly with sugar and dried fruits. But he is open for different flavour additions, too: fresh fruit, herbs, spices, tea,… A very open minded pet! Sometimes he rests in the fridge. When we wake him up again, he is a bit sleepy at the beginning, but then he fully starts working again. And he is working a […]

Categories: dairy-free, drinks, gluten-free, In the kitchen, spring, summer, vegan, vegetarian • Tags: acid, carbonate, cultur, drink, fermentation, flavour, flavoured, fruit, healthy, infuse, kefir, lemon, lemonade, probiotic, soda, water kefir

N’ice … cream with roasted apricots and caramelized almonds

July 9, 2016 by nadel&gabel

Yes, it really has become quiet around here the last weeks (and I know that I said this before). Let’s call it an inspirational low point combined with a lot of real life to deal with. Anyway, I am here again, hopefully more regularly again from now on.  Probably you’ve heard already about “n’ice cream”, this summer’s hot shit around the raw-vegan-natural-clean-eating-scene. The idea is to create ice cream without artificial, processed ingredients and instead use as a base frozen […]

Categories: cake, cookie & dessert, dairy-free, diets, gluten-free, In the kitchen, seasons, summer, vegan, vegetarian • Tags: almond, apricot, baked, banana, caramelize, clean eating, cream, easy, egg free, ice, natural, Nice, nice cream, no-churn, recipe, refreshing, roasted, summer, vegan

A secret green juice – Wiesensaft

April 24, 2016 by nadel&gabel

As I promised – which is already two weeks ago now – I wanted to introduce you to the secrets of “Wiesensaft” (meadow juice). Yes, you heard right. I was sceptic, too, when I saw the green liquid in the bottle that stood on the breakfast buffet at the Miramonte hotel. But curiosity won and I filled a small sip into my glas … and I came back to the buffet, and once again. I loved the fresh aromatic taste […]

Categories: dairy-free, drinks, gluten-free, In the kitchen, spring, summer, vegan, vegetarian • Tags: drink, elderflower, fresh, green, herb, juice, meadow, Miramonte, parsley, recipe, spring, syrup, Wiesensaft

Wholesome – Onigiri with tuna filling

November 29, 2015 by nadel&gabel

“Muss ich immer alles müssen, was ich kann?” (Do I always have to do things cause I can do?) – No, I guess, we don’t have to. Too often we think, that there’s no other way, we feel obliged to people, traditions, to-do-lists. But when we pause, when we refuse all the must’s, ignore the pile of work for a while, postpone tidying up the apartment and decorating for christmas, when we do mostly nothing, or only the things we […]

Categories: around the world, autumn, grains & legumes, In the kitchen, snacks & small dishes, spring, summer, Uncategorized, winter • Tags: gari, ginger, japanese, kimchi, korean, nori, onigiri, recipe, spicy, sushi, triangular, tuna

Shake, shake, shake… – Crispy oven roasted potatoes

November 8, 2015 by nadel&gabel

“Oven roasted potatoes? Are you serious? You want to tell us how to bake potatoes? Let me guess: You… bake… potatoes?!” I know, I know,… but wait! For long – actually for most of my life – the carbs of my choice always were pasta. You’ll never ever find our kitchen without a bag of penne and a can of tomatoes. My survival kit! But lately they find a strong competitor in potatoes, especially prepared this way. In fact, since weeks […]

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On any day in September – Zwetschgekucha

September 23, 2015 by nadel&gabel

If not now, when is the perfect time for a juice plum cake?! So, although I’ve still got some travel impressions to share, they have to wait and make place for this traditional German autumn cake. It’s a recipe for the high season of autumn fruits, when you have so much of them that you squeeze as much as you can onto a layer of simple yeast dough. Top it with streusel – here we go! Still, a few notes […]

Categories: autumn, cake, cookie & dessert, German/Swabian, In the kitchen, summer, vegetarian • Tags: almond, autumn, cake, cinnamon, classic, cookie & dessert, damson, dough, easy, german, plum, recipe, simple, swabian, warm, yeast, zwetschge

Mediterranean flavours – Socca with olives and thyme

August 23, 2015 by nadel&gabel

It was in Diano Marina in Liguria. The travel guidebook had recommended this little town as a charming not too crowded place … which it – to cut right through the chase – wasn’t at all: hordes of tourists hustling through the narrow streets wearing not much more than their bathing clothes, souvenir and tourist trap food shops on every corner … I guess you can imagine this kind of place, cause somehow these places are interchangeable all around the […]

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