Crunchy – Nutola

February 12, 2018 by nadel&gabel

During the last year I’ve tried to reduce the amount of carbs I was eating. I avoided sugar nearly completely, cut down on grain products a lot. This wasn’t easy for me, lover of pasta and pizza. I didn’t do this change in eating routines doctrinaire – I hate to be dictated by someone or something. But it made me think eating and cooking from a different angle. I browsed the internet for low carb recipes for inspiration. What I […]

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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

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

Wearing a sunday dress – Breakfast carrot cake with coconut

March 13, 2016 by nadel&gabel

It was one of my New Years resolutions: Eat better at work! I was so sick of the every day returning bun sandwich with sausage or cheese I had for breakfast at work, the bun sandwich with sausage or cheese for lunch as well… And I was even more annoyed about myself not getting moved my ass to change this situation. So, to help me kick-start my project and keep with it I had to make it cool and stylish – […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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The simple pleasures – Oeufs en cocotte

March 1, 2015 by nadel&gabel

If you can’t answer the big questions, if it seams like nothing’s really moving forward – concentrate on the small things, the simple pleasures. Break out of stagnation and routine on a small scale …. that’s my resolution these days. These oeufs en cocotte – the very name makes them special – are such a small pleasure. They are the sophisticated version of your standard sunday breakfast eggs, without requiring much more preparation time. With fresh spinach and cress from […]

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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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