Swabian sweet tooth – Schupfnudeln with apple compote and cinnamon sugar

November 29, 2014 by nadel&gabel

It’s getting colder outside slowly around here and as winter and Christmas is getting closer my cravings for the flavours of my childhood  – long known dishes, linked with memories – are growing. Schupfnudeln are one of those meals. They are a swabian kind of noodles or dumplings, sometimes translates with ‘finger noodles’ – referring to their shape. The dough itself is similar to the italian gnocci dough – although there exist versions that are only made with flour and […]

Categories: autumn, cake, cookie & dessert, dairy-free, German/Swabian, In the kitchen, pasta, vegetarian, winter • Tags: apple, autumn, cinnamon, compote, dough, dumpling, german, gnocci, noodle, potato, preserve, recipe, rustic, Sauerkraut, savoury, Schupfnudeln, South, sugar, swabian, sweet, traditional, warm, winter

Comfort food – Polish Pierogi and Jamie Olivers new cookbook

November 23, 2014 by nadel&gabel

“Comfort food” – how could I have walked by a cook book having these words on its front (actually it was the German title)? The new book of Jamie Oliver focuses on food as balm for your soul, food that makes you feel happy and – comfortable! Food that feeds not only your stomach, but your soul as well. I read the introducing words and was sure that this book was my cup of tea – I flipped through the […]

Categories: In the kitchen, pasta, spread, sauce & spice, vegetable, vegetarian • Tags: cabbage, comfort, cookbook, dough, dumpling, Eastern Europe, filled, food, hearty, holiday, Jamie Oliver, pasta, pastry, pierogi, pocket, polish, potato, recipe, review, snack, sour cream, starter

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

Powidlbuchteln/Dumplings filled with plum butter

October 1, 2011 by nadel&gabel

Oh my god, time is running so fast at the moment. It is already three weeks ago that I, when I made my yummy plum butter, announced to bake Powidlbuchteln, the famous Czech/Austrian yeast dumplings filled with plum butter. Now I finally could find a bit of more spare time – thanks to the extended weekend in Germany – to write this throughout recommendable recipe down. I adapted it from a cooking book I once stumbled  across in some book […]

Categories: around the world, autumn, cake, cookie & dessert, German/Swabian, In the kitchen, vegetarian, winter • Tags: autumn, baking, dumpling, fall, food, fruit butter, german, plum, recipe, winter

Mountain retreat

September 22, 2011 by nadel&gabel

Categories: Austria, Behind the camera, black & white, Black and white, German/Swabian, In the kitchen, On the road, travel • Tags: Austria, autumn, dumpling, fall, hiking, mountains, photography, strudel