The loved ones – Red Currant Mazarin Tart

August 14, 2015 by nadel&gabel

When you would ask me about my favourite summer cake, my answer would always be the same: A “Träubleskucha” (red currant cake) the way my grandma always made it and how it is still made in our family. Red currants always bring childhood memories with them. I remember the garden of my parents that produced such masses of red currants throughout the summer season that we were busy to handle all of them – besides all the other fruits and […]

Categories: cake, cookie & dessert, In the kitchen, summer, vegetarian • Tags: almond, berries, cake, cookie & dessert, cream, crust, fresh, marzipan, Mazarintårta, recipe, red currant, scandinavian, shortbread, sour, summer, sweden, swedish, sweet, tart, tartlet

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

Sweet simplicity – Dutch hangop

April 18, 2015 by nadel&gabel

Of course – like it is good tradition on this blog – my report from our short trip to Amsterdam is only complete with a corresponding recipe. After our dinner at Moeders, where we ate ourself through a menu of traditional Dutch dishes, it was soon clear that I was tending towards the sweet side, but would it be waffles, poffertjes,…? … I finally made my mind – and hangop. Probably the most easiest, but non the less delicious and […]

Categories: around the world, cake, cookie & dessert, gluten-free, In the kitchen, spring, summer, vegetarian • Tags: berries, buttermilk, cream, dairy, dessert, drain, dutch, easy, fresh, hangop, Holland, Netherlands, raspberries, recipe, spring, summer, traditional, yoghurt

It’s becoming a tradition – Soul food weekend

July 8, 2014 by nadel&gabel

In the woods … yes it is again this (and this) remote place in the palatine forest the middle of nowhere where we spend again two days of cooking, baking, eating, relaxing, celebrating with a bunch of friends … surely by now it’s becoming a tradition. The idea of our cooking and baking was to use the ingredients as starting point: No concrete plans, but inspiration. Zucchini, bell peppers, sweet potatoes, peaches, berries … what can make out of these […]

Categories: autumn, Behind the camera, bread, breakfast, cake, cookie & dessert, In the kitchen, meat, nature, salad, spread, sauce & spice, vegetable, vegetarian • Tags: antipasti, baking, barbecue, berries, blackberries, blueberries, bread, cooking, crust, dip, forest, Germany, grill, lemon, meat, nature, Palatine, photography, remote, rural, salad, summer, tarte, vegetable

Dream garden – Romance needs hard work

June 25, 2014 by nadel&gabel

Last week my mother celebrated her birthday – a good occasion for a short stay at my parent’s house. As it is a family tradition the birthday was celebrated with old friends … and with my fathers homemade pizza – made in his DIY pizza oven! … Famous all around the village! It was – like always – a delight. My parent’s vast garden right now is in its full summer blossom, its abundance and beauty overwhelming. Veggies, flowers, berries […]

Categories: Behind the camera, In the kitchen, nature • Tags: animals, berries, blossom, chicken, decoration, design, flower, fruit, garden, oasis, photography, picture, plants, pond, style, succulents, summer, vegetable

My new love affair – Apricot marzipan scones

June 13, 2014 by nadel&gabel

This has been a hot week around here in Germany – with destructive thunderstorms as “side effects” … we could talk about climate change, and a lot could be said about this …  a lot could be said as well about the “side effects” of the Football Worldcup in Brasil. I won’t … where should I start?! Yes of course, I’ve watched the opening match last night. But I won’t join the chorus of enthusiasm. There won’t be any brazilian […]

Categories: around the world, breakfast, cake, cookie & dessert, In the kitchen, snacks & small dishes, summer, vegetarian • Tags: apricot, baking, berries, biscuits, blackberries, chocolate, cookie, dried, fruit, marzipan, moist, party, picnic, recipe, scones, summer, tea, white, yoghurt

Grown up – Strawberry hazelnut bundt cake

May 23, 2014 by nadel&gabel

I baked a cake … actually I am baking a lot of cakes recently, somehow it became a habit to bake cakes for my colleagues and students on a regular basis. This is especially satisfying when you’re actually meant to correct class tests… This cake I made twice in one week – which indicates already that something is totally right with it. First of all it is strawberries … of course – I just can’t walk past if I see […]

Categories: cake, cookie & dessert, In the kitchen, summer • Tags: berries, cake, chocolate, coffee, cookie & dessert, easy, fruit, hazelnut, pound, recipe, spring, strawberries, summer

Tart love – Strawberry rhubarb shrub

May 16, 2014 by nadel&gabel

You thought there wouldn’t be a strawberry or/and rhubarb recipe on this blog this spring?! – Of course not! How could I leave out these great spring fruits! (I know, botanically rhubarb is a vegetable.) Besides a strawberry cake I am still experimenting with, rhubarb stalks and strawberries were excessively used in my kitchen the last weeks. Some things I made were – strawberry Eton mess (similar to this) – a braided brioche filled with strawberries (based on this recipe) […]

Categories: dairy-free, drinks, gluten-free, In the kitchen, pantry, summer, vegan, vegetarian • Tags: aperitif, berries, beverage, cocktail, drink, fermenting, fresh, fruit, lemonade, preserving, recipe, rhubarb, shrub, spring, strawberry, summer, syrup, vinegar

Above it all – a summer picnic

July 10, 2013 by nadel&gabel

Summer has finally arrived! And what would be a summer without evenings in the open air? Last weekend we decided to spend our summer evening at one of our favourite places around the town, on a nearby hill. The way up there is quite steep and on my way up I regularly curse my idea to walk up there, but once arrived on the top …  you have such an amazing view over the whole town; surrounded only by some […]

Categories: Behind the camera, bread, cake, cookie & dessert, In the kitchen, meat, nature, snacks & small dishes, summer, vegetarian • Tags: baking, berries, blueberries, bread, cake, cookie & dessert, cooking, filled, food, hungarian, kalács, landscape, party, photography, picnic, pie, snack, summer