Persistent cravings – Anise almond biscotti

December 10, 2017 by nadel&gabel

Anise. For weeks I’ve been craving anise. Don’t ask why, I don’t really know myself. Yes, we’re getting closer to Christmas, but spontaneously I have cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, vanilla, allspice in my mind when thinking about Christmas, not anise first of all. Actually, for most of my life I hated the whole flavour spectrum of anise, liquorice, fennel! Anyhow, this craving persisted! Every now and then I browsed Pinterest for things to bake or cook. Nothing really got me, was […]

Categories: around the world, cake, cookie & dessert, In the kitchen, seasons, Uncategorized, winter • Tags: almond, anise, aniseed, baking, biscotti, christmas, cookie, easy, flavor, italian, recipe

For divas – Bolos lêvedos and a true Azorean burger

June 15, 2017 by nadel&gabel

On our first visit to the supermarket – I love to visit supermarkets when away – on São Miguel those round buns that looked like muffins catched my eyes and a bag went into our cart … and so on the other day, and the following… It was after a few days, that we realized, that we indeed unintentionally grabbed one of the typical Azorean dishes, bolos lêvedos. Precisely they come from São Miguel island, more precisely from the town of […]

Categories: around the world, bread, breakfast, In the kitchen, meat, snacks & small dishes, Uncategorized • Tags: ananas, Azorean, Azores, baking, breakfast, burger, furnas, muffin, pineapple, São Miguel, sweet bread, traditional, yeast

Notes from within the snail shell – Pfitzauf

January 31, 2016 by nadel&gabel

Retreating into the shell like a snail – sometimes this sounds so promising (despite the fact that I am afraid of snails). When the outside world is chaotic, complicated, discouraging, there’s my snail reflex: roll in, withdraw, stay within the shell that shields me. How long could one possibly hide under the bed sheet? Probably quite a while as long as the ingredients for such a simple dish like “Pfitzauf” – the traditional Swabian version of popovers – are in the house. As […]

Categories: breakfast, cake, cookie & dessert, German/Swabian, In the kitchen, Uncategorized, vegetarian • Tags: baking, breakfast, cinnamon, easy, eggs, oven, pancake, Pfitzauf, popovers, recipe, sugar, swabian, sweet

Fundamental – Pão alentejano and queijo fresco

October 4, 2015 by nadel&gabel

As it is good tradition on this blog a culinary souvenir from the country we’ve visited in the form of a recipe must not be missed. Cause it’s not only seeing different things that make travelling so exciting and enriching … it’s as well so much about different smells and flavours. When it comes to culinary traditions, for me the Portuguese are the masters in making the most of simple ingredients. Have a look at the various sweet pastries they […]

Categories: bread, In the kitchen, vegetarian • Tags: alentejano, Alentejo, Alexandra Klobouk, baking, bread, caseiro, cheese, cheese making, clotting, cream cheese, crust, dough, easy, fermentation, fresh, loaf, milk, Pão, peasant, Portugal, portugiesische küche, portuguese, queijo fresco, recipe, rennet, sour, wheat, yeast

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 […]

Categories: bread, dairy-free, grains & legumes, In the kitchen, snacks & small dishes, summer, vegan, vegetarian • Tags: baking, chickpea, dinner, easy, farinata, flatbread, flour, fresh, gluten-free, healthy, Liguria, lunch, mediterranean, Nice, oven, pancake, quick, recipe, salad, socca, summer, tomatoes, vegan

Healthy tidbit – Dutch Baby with elderberries

August 6, 2015 by nadel&gabel

Like in every year, strawberries were the heralds, followed by cherries … and now out of a sudden the whole farmer’s market is covered in shades of red and blue. It’s the season for all those sweet-sour jewels that delight us only for such a short period of the year! And I enjoy it to the fullest! Blueberries, blackberries, gooseberries, raspberries, currants – I love all of them! And nearly all of them I have packed into this baked oven […]

Categories: breakfast, cake, cookie & dessert, In the kitchen, summer, vegetarian • Tags: baking, berries, breakfast, dessert, dutch baby, easy, egg, elderberries, fruit, german, healthy, oven, pancake, recipe, summer, sweet, vitamin

We call it a Klassiker – German Cherry Cheesecake

July 19, 2015 by nadel&gabel

Phew! The heat waves that reached Germany throughout the last weeks really turned me into a phlegmatic sloth! The days got a new rhythm, I tried to move as little as possible,  and fed mainly on melon and salads. No way to put on the oven in our top floor apartment! But then for a few days, temperatures sank to a – kind of – normal level. And I had to quickly bake a cake. The cherries on the market […]

Categories: cake, cookie & dessert, German/Swabian, In the kitchen, snacks & small dishes, summer, vegetarian • Tags: baking, cake, cheesecake, cherries, classic, cookie & dessert, crust, curd, fresh, fruit, german, lemon, pastry, quark, recipe, summer, traditional

Let’s twist again – Bread flower with poppy seed marzipan filling

February 1, 2015 by nadel&gabel

Alright, ready for baked sweets again. Bitter-sweet pleasures to be precise. This poppy seed bread flower belongs to the category ‘simple, but impressive’ (one of my favourite 😉 ) – a recipe for show-offs … Mother-in-law has announced a visit? That’s your recipe! Want to contribute some baked treat to a party buffet that convinces in terms of taste and appearance + can be eaten without plate and cutlery? – That’s it! Remember this savoury kalacs I adapted from Viviane […]

Categories: bread, cake, cookie & dessert, In the kitchen, snacks & small dishes, vegetarian • Tags: baking, braided, bread, brioche, buffet, cake, cookie & dessert, flower, gift, marzipan, milk, party, poppy seeds, recipe, star, twisted, yeast

Sensuality – Poppy seed marzipan waffles with warm sour cherries

November 15, 2014 by nadel&gabel

Comfort food  is what I am craving these days that are mostly grey and rainy … cause food can be so much more than just nutrition: it’s not only the contemplating effect during the process of preparing, food can revive your senses, bring your soul back into balance! Too pathetic? Look at these waffles for example! They stop your collywobbles, ok, but they do so much more! First of all I think they feed your eyes – and then the […]

Categories: autumn, breakfast, cake, cookie & dessert, In the kitchen, vegetarian, winter • Tags: almond, autumn, baking, belgian, cherries, christmas, maker, marzipan, poppyseed, recipe, sensual, sour, spice, star anise, sweet, waffles, warm, winter