Pulse – Spring pasta with peas, ricotta and lemon

May 14, 2017 by nadel&gabel

Except from our – magnificent – trip to São Miguel (dispatch to follow) during our Easter holidays, there has been a lot of work going on here right now in ‘real life’, while my digital life has shifted to Instagram mostly these days. This won’t be the beginning of a lenghty complaint, but an explanation: My recreational program these days mostly consists of some knitting in the evening and short walks in the sun in the afternoon – in case it […]

Categories: grains & legumes, In the kitchen, pasta, seasons, spread, sauce & spice, spring, vegetable, vegetarian • Tags: carb, easy, fresh, green, legumes, lemon, pasta, pea, pulse, quick, ricotta, simple, spring, zest

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 […]

Categories: breakfast, dairy-free, gluten-free, In the kitchen, pantry, snacks & small dishes, spread, sauce & spice, vegetarian • Tags: brine, colour, easter, eggs, flavour, gift, kurkuma, marinate, pantry, pickled, present, preserving, sour, spice, turmeric, vinegarn

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, […]

Categories: dairy-free, diets, gluten-free, In the kitchen, pantry, seasons, spread, sauce & spice, vegan, vegetarian, winter • Tags: bitter, breakfast, change, citrus, jam, juice, marmalade, marmelade, orange, preserving, recipe, spread, sweet, transformation, winter, womens march, zest

Flavour horizons – Homemade spice blends

December 15, 2016 by nadel&gabel

 This year, my Christmas presents – yes, almost done – are a bit more on the (online) store bought side than on team DIY. Not by concept, it just happened. Nevertheless you won’t find a gift guide on this blog. I don’t think anyone needs another one. What you’ll find here – like every year – is some inspiration for homemade Christmas presents. One of my homemade presents is this set of spice blends. I chose three of my favourite […]

Categories: around the world, craft & DIY, dairy-free, digital design, freebies, gluten-free, In the kitchen, paper, spread, sauce & spice, vegan, vegetarian • Tags: african, arab, Asian, blend, coriander, cumin, dukkah, exotic, flavour, furikake, gift, glass tube, hawaij, hazelnut, homemade, japanese, jewish, kitchen, label, mix, oriental, present, recipe, seasoning, sesame, spice, taste

Interactive – Kumpir with red cabbage slaw and muhammara

December 3, 2016 by nadel&gabel

I guess food posts around here have become a bit heavy on the sweet side lately. Although in every day life of course I cook way more savoury dishes than sweet ones. So why is it? There are a lot of extensively tested and approved recipes, delicious, healthy (mostly), perfected and variated, but they haven’t found their way on this blog. I’m withholding them, something always detains me from posting them. Not special enough, no exceptional ingredient, unspectacular look … not worth […]

Categories: around the world, diets, In the kitchen, salad, snacks & small dishes, spread, sauce & spice, vegetarian • Tags: baked, bell pepper, cabbage, healthy, jacket, kumpir, muhammara, oriental, oven, potato, salad, sauce, slaw, snack, street food, turkish, vegetarian, walnut

From the range – Molly’s sesame coffee cake with hawaij

November 13, 2016 by nadel&gabel

 One of my latest cook book purchases is “Molly on the range”. I still know exactly when I started to read Molly’s blog My name is Yeh: When she made caramels in the snow. I mean, how crazy funny is that?! The picture sticks to my mind and in many ways it characterizes her approach to cooking and baking: never too serious, always with fun and lots of sprinkles, not afraid of untraditional ways of preparing or combining ingredients. I guess, a lot […]

Categories: around the world, autumn, cake, cookie & dessert, diets, In the kitchen, seasons, spread, sauce & spice, vegetarian, winter • Tags: cake, cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, coffee, coffee cake, fushion, ginger, hawaij, Hawayej, molly on the range, molly yeh, nontraditional, recipe, sesame, spice, streusel, tahini

Shades of green – A spring feast

April 29, 2015 by nadel&gabel

*sigh* … When it comes to work load this is about the hardest time of the year… gritting one’s teeth, struggling through is the name of the game. Under these adverse conditions I am especially happy that we could find the time for a lovely gathering with friends – to celebrate friendship, good food, spring… and my birthday – to let work be work and enjoy the moment. In my mind I had my favourite season spring and its omnipresent […]

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Creamy herbed spaghetti & Uli’s secret to cooking pasta

March 22, 2015 by nadel&gabel

Lately I visited my friend Ulrike and at noon when we sat together for a quick lunch – a pot of pasta and a good pesto – I had this moment of enlightenment: For the first time I was realizing that her pasta always tasted better than mine, that it had this special flavour that turned even the simplest pasta dish into something extraordinary. … It turned out to be a simple leave of laurel that she is cooking with […]

Categories: dairy-free, In the kitchen, pasta, spread, sauce & spice, spring, vegetarian • Tags: basil, carbonara, cooking, easy, herbs, italian, laurel, lunch, parmesan, parsley, pasta, pecorino, quick, recipe, rosemary, spaghetti, spring, thyme

Life and the whole thing – Oriental birthday buffet

February 19, 2015 by nadel&gabel

“My head is an animal” these days, bombarding me with all those existential questions: So many paths to go – but which one should I go? Is there a right one, a right way of life – at least a right one for me? What’s true about “there is a time for everything”? In which phase of my life am I at the moment? Clearly, there are a lot of answers, that one gets offered, implicit and explicit expectations, what […]

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