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

About traditions – Pickled pink radishes

June 23, 2015 by nadel&gabel

These radishes have soon become a staple in our household, since I made them for the first time a few months ago. I planned to make a Bánh Mì sandwich. And when I walked around the market and looked for daikon radishes, I saw instead the first cute little pink radishes. They were fresh, they were from the farmer in the next village, they were radishes – what did I want more? – I had to use them instead. It […]

Categories: dairy-free, German/Swabian, gluten-free, In the kitchen, pantry, snacks & small dishes, vegan, vegetable, vegetarian • Tags: Bánh Mì, bread, brine, Brotzeit, condiment, flavour, german, gift, jar, marinate, pickles, pickling, present, preserve, radish, recipe, sandwich, season, sour, spicy, tart, Vesper, vietnamese, vinegar

Cause it’s fun – Waffled pita sandwich with sucuk

May 16, 2015 by nadel&gabel

Foodwise the last weeks weren’t quite the healthiest ones – unless you’d call sandwiches with different toppings a varied and balanced diet. Although the homemade ones definitely were better than the ones from the bakery, smeared with loads of butter. Especially the numerous Bánh mì dinners. So, it basically suggested itself that this post would be dedicated to a sandwich. *Yawn*? No, it’s not a normal sandwich. It’s a waffled sandwich! “Is she really putting a sandwich into a waffle […]

Categories: bread, dairy-free, In the kitchen, soup & stew • Tags: bread, cheese, feta, grilled, iron, parsley, pita, recipe, sandwich, sausage, snack, sucuk, trend, turkish, waffle, waffling

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 […]

Categories: bread, cake, cookie & dessert, craft & DIY, dairy-free, grains & legumes, In the kitchen, interior, salad, snacks & small dishes, spread, sauce & spice, spring, vegetable, vegetarian • Tags: asparagus, bread, decoration, dill, dinner, dip, feast, gathering, green, guacamole, herbs, hummus, lahey, no knead, party, pasteis, pavlova, pesto, pistachios, recipe, sauce, setting, spread, spring, table, vegetable

It’s fresh, exciting… – Quark lemon babka

April 3, 2015 by nadel&gabel

Easter is just around the corner – time to bake some braided bread. Don’t you think of some kind of brioche/plait/whatever-you-call-it when it comes to Easter? (Second after eggs of course.) I guess this is a tradition in many christian regions: Italian Colomba di pasqua, Greek Tsoureki, Austrian/German Osterzopf/Osterstriezel Eastern European Paska,… there are probably countless more regional traditions of Easter Bread. Though, – as you may have recognized – this isn’t a classic Easter bread… I wanted to make […]

Categories: breakfast, cake, cookie & dessert, In the kitchen, vegetarian • Tags: babka, braided, bread, brioche, cake, coffee, cookie & dessert, curd cheese, dough, easter, fresh, lemon, milk, Ottolenghi, quark, recipe, swirl, tea, twisted, yeast, zest

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

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

An ode to South Tyrol – Bread dumplings with stinging nettles

April 27, 2014 by nadel&gabel

Before I am showing you some more pictures from beautiful South Tyrol I decided to complement my photographic impressions of the region by some culinary ones. Dumplings based on dried old bread are one of THE traditional dishes of this region. In fact bread dumplings – like yeast dough, quark or potato based dumplings – are common all around the former Habsburg monarchy, especially in Austria, Czech republic (‘Bohemia’), Southern Germany and South Tyrol, may they be called “Semmelknödl”, “Brotknödel” […]

Categories: around the world, bread, In the kitchen, spring, vegetarian • Tags: Austria, bread, cheese, culinary, dumplings, easy, frugal, Habsburg, health, herb, medicinal, nettles, old, recipe, South, speck, spring, stinging, traditional, Tyrol, wild

It’s not too late – Homemade culinary presents

December 22, 2013 by nadel&gabel

You’re still urgently looking for a present? Something personally, homemade, not run of the mill, … but not too time consuming either? Here’s some inspiration: I assembled culinary presents from nearly 3 years of nadel&gabel for you. Here you go: We will start with the SWEET things: 1. Dulce de leche spread (with or without sea salt) from sweetened condensed milk – so easy to make that this is barely a recipe 2. Praline marzipan chocolates – not as time […]

Categories: dairy-free, In the kitchen, pantry, spread, sauce & spice, vegetarian • Tags: baking, bread, cheese, cookies, culinary, dip, drink, fruit, gift, kitchen, present, preserving, sauce, savoury, spread, sweet