Soulwarming – Pear fritters with chocolate sauce à la Hélène

October 22, 2016 by nadel&gabel

On those autumn days when the colour of the sky only knows the monochromatic shades of grey (no reference) that are slowly creeping into your mood, the best thing you can do is cuddling into your wool blanket with a hot cup of tea… … and enjoy some food, that caresses your soul, brings coziness deep inside, brings warmth to your heart. It helps when chocolate is involved 😉 In this case I paired chocolate with one of my sweet […]

Categories: autumn, cake, cookie & dessert, diets, German/Swabian, grains & legumes, In the kitchen, seasons, snacks & small dishes, vegetarian • Tags: autumn, bake, belle Hélène, Birne Helene, chocolate, dessert, easy, fritters, pear, recipe, soulfood, sweet, warm

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

Enwrapped sweetness – Cherry dumplings

June 30, 2013 by nadel&gabel

The berry and fruit season has begun and like every year I have the tendency to be kind of paralyzed by the great selection of fruits and recipes that come my way. Cake, ice cream, dessert, salad, canning, … where do I start? In my helplessness I came back to my childhood recipe that I first of all associate with summer and fruits: dumplings!… I can see my grandmother standing in the kitchen and forming dumplings, that have previously been […]

Categories: around the world, cake, cookie & dessert, German/Swabian, In the kitchen, summer, vegetarian • Tags: Austria, Austrian, cherries, cooking, curd cheese, dessert, dumpling, food, fruit, german, quark, recipe, summer, sweet

Oriental yoghurt – Sweet, tart and fresh!

June 22, 2013 by nadel&gabel

Since I bought Jerusalem a few months ago, I am in a kind of oriental cooking phase. Not that I have already cooked that many recipes from the book, but I am inspired … The last few days it was so incredibly hot that I had no desire for hot meals at all. Instead, I froze like a champ: pureed fruit, (freshly homemade) elderflower syrup, ice cubes of course. Also I bought a whole bucket refreshing Greek yoghurt, so that […]

Categories: gluten-free, In the kitchen, vegetarian • Tags: almond, arab, cooking, dessert, easy, food, greek, honey, nuts, oriental, pomegranate, recipe, sesame, tahini, yoghurt

Strawberry ricotta dream with mint – Fighting the Ice Saints

May 16, 2012 by nadel&gabel

Never heard about the Ice Saints’ days? Mamertus (11th of May), Pankratius (12th of May), Servatius (13th of May), Bonifatius (14th of May) and (cold) Sophie (15th of May)?! The commemoration of these five saints was long ago brought together with the old middle european peasant experience that it is likely to be a cold weather period during these days. Although meterological statistics can’t confirm this old weather proverb, it often proves to be true – like these days, when […]

Categories: cake, cookie & dessert, gluten-free, In the kitchen, spring, summer, vegetarian • Tags: berries, cream, dessert, mint, ricotta cheese, spring, strawberries, summer

Da ua – Dreamlike vietnamese yoghurt

March 1, 2012 by nadel&gabel

It took me years to get over my homemade-yoghurt-trauma. For some time, my mother regularly used to make natural yoghurt at home with her 70s yoghurt machine. Today I adore the round 70s design and the orange colour of this machine – as a child I couldn’t stand the yoghurt that came out of this machine: too sour for me, not creamy and always with a skin on top…ew! It was only last summer that I made my first own […]

Categories: around the world, Behind the camera, breakfast, cake, cookie & dessert, gluten-free, In the kitchen, snacks & small dishes, vegetarian • Tags: challenge, cooking, dessert, food, milk, photography, recipe, sweet, Vietnam, yoghurt

Caramel pudding with pear compote

August 15, 2011 by nadel&gabel

I had used not all of the pears I had bought at the market for my gorgonzola-pear-pizza, but they were fully ripe and juicy – they would have survived maximally one more day. I decided to use them in a quick compote with a hint of ginger – in the end, actually only one pear made it into the compote, the others went straight into my stomache…

Categories: cake, cookie & dessert, In the kitchen, vegetarian • Tags: caramel, cooking, cream, dessert, food, pears compote, pudding, recipe

Pasta with chantarelles and little blackberry cobbler

August 11, 2011 by nadel&gabel

Can you imagine something more gorgeous than taking a stroll around the farmer’s market, while the vegetables and fruits in your head form different recipes? ‘Hey, they already have fresh …. if  I combine them with … ah, … is on offer, I could make … with it, but then some … with it would be nice…’ And so on and on. I therefore usually spend a lot of time on the market, even if  I don’t buy that much […]

Categories: autumn, cake, cookie & dessert, In the kitchen, pasta, summer, vegetable, vegetarian • Tags: autumn, bacon, berries, blackberries, chanterelles, cobbler, cooking, dessert, fall, food, pasta, recipe, summer