Comforting and nourishing – German potato soup

January 10, 2016 by nadel&gabel

  Hello again! I hope everyone had a good start into 2016! Actually I’ve ment to report back here sooner, but the new year started with some left over work from the old one … 😦 Anyway, I don’t want to start the new complaining. I had great days with my family and friends, yummy food and I enjoyed to be mostly cooked for. We had time to think about the new year, plans, wishes, hopes, while the weather outside … […]

Categories: autumn, German/Swabian, In the kitchen, soup & stew, vegetable, vegetarian, winter • Tags: celeriac, comfort, easy, food, german, healthy, potato, recipe, roots, sausage, simple, soup, stew, vegetable, warming, winter

On any day in September – Zwetschgekucha

September 23, 2015 by nadel&gabel

If not now, when is the perfect time for a juice plum cake?! So, although I’ve still got some travel impressions to share, they have to wait and make place for this traditional German autumn cake. It’s a recipe for the high season of autumn fruits, when you have so much of them that you squeeze as much as you can onto a layer of simple yeast dough. Top it with streusel – here we go! Still, a few notes […]

Categories: autumn, cake, cookie & dessert, German/Swabian, In the kitchen, summer, vegetarian • Tags: almond, autumn, cake, cinnamon, classic, cookie & dessert, damson, dough, easy, german, plum, recipe, simple, swabian, warm, yeast, zwetschge

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

We call it a Klassiker – German Cherry Cheesecake

July 19, 2015 by nadel&gabel

Phew! The heat waves that reached Germany throughout the last weeks really turned me into a phlegmatic sloth! The days got a new rhythm, I tried to move as little as possible,  and fed mainly on melon and salads. No way to put on the oven in our top floor apartment! But then for a few days, temperatures sank to a – kind of – normal level. And I had to quickly bake a cake. The cherries on the market […]

Categories: cake, cookie & dessert, German/Swabian, In the kitchen, snacks & small dishes, summer, vegetarian • Tags: baking, cake, cheesecake, cherries, classic, cookie & dessert, crust, curd, fresh, fruit, german, lemon, pastry, quark, recipe, summer, traditional

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

Journey through time – A family gathering in the Black Forest

March 8, 2015 by nadel&gabel

On this first really springlike sunday this year I refuse to spend a lot of time at the desk. So excuse me that I will mostly let pictures speak for the moment. We spend a part of the weekend in the Black Forest where a family celebration took place. We celebrated an 80th birthday – a moment to review, a journey through time. The celebrations took place in one of the most traditional German holiday regions – the Black Forest. […]

Categories: Behind the camera, In the kitchen, nature, objects & places • Tags: Black Forest, cake, cookie & dessert, celebration, decoration, dining, fir, food, gathering, german, Germany, hotel, old-fashioned, retro, South, table setting, travel, trout, vacation

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

Foodblogs I love: Krautkopf

October 22, 2014 by nadel&gabel

The German foodblog Krautkopf by Susann and Yannic I can’t deny that I am a visual person and food photography that tells a story or is able to express a specific mood is important for captivating me in the long run. No wonder that the moody and artful but in the same time reduced pictures of Susann and Yannic caught me. But then a food blog is not only about pictures – the recipes have to convince me as well. […]

Categories: Behind the camera, Blogging, Foodblogs I love, In the kitchen, vegetarian • Tags: Asian, baking, Berlin, blog, blogging, cooking, favourite, food, foodie, german, healthy, international, krautkopf, mediterranean, photography, season, vegan, vegetarian

Food blogs I love: Chestnut & Sage

October 8, 2014 by nadel&gabel

After a break that got longer than intended I’d like to introduce to you again some of my favourite food blogs and – what is even more important – the people behind the scene, their approach to cooking, the role of food and blogging in their life. This time I am proud to welcome Julia from Chestnut&Sage. When I clicked back to the oldest post of Chestnut&Sage I realized that I am indeed following this blog since its existance … […]

Categories: Behind the camera, Blogging, Foodblogs I love, In the kitchen • Tags: baking, blog, blogging, chestnut&sage, cooking, favourite, food, foodie, german, healthy, nostalgia, photography, season, travel, vegetarian