The Origin of Overnight Oats – Bircher Müsli

January 17, 2015 by nadel&gabel

“Isn’t this … Bircher Müsli?!” – That was what I thought when I saw a recipe for this ‘totally new’ breakfast trend called ‘Overnight Oats’ for the first time… and, yes, it basically IS Bircher Müsli. So, this new invention is not so new at all and actually more of a rediscovery of what the Swiss physician and nutritionist Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Brenner developed in 1902 as Apfeldiätspeise – as a dietary meal based on apples (actually it was ment as […]

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It’s toasted – Crunchy chocolate hazelnut granola

January 27, 2014 by nadel&gabel

Do you know this kind of recipe that you make for the first time and immediately know that this will be added to your recipe short list and and from now on will be made over and over? There aren’t that many dishes on my (all season) shortlist of baking and cooking. But this chocolate hazelnut granola already has made it on it. In fact, I don’t want to imagine the moment when I realize that I have nothing of […]

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