Pulse – Spring pasta with peas, ricotta and lemon

May 14, 2017 by nadel&gabel

Except from our – magnificent – trip to São Miguel (dispatch to follow) during our Easter holidays, there has been a lot of work going on here right now in ‘real life’, while my digital life has shifted to Instagram mostly these days. This won’t be the beginning of a lenghty complaint, but an explanation: My recreational program these days mostly consists of some knitting in the evening and short walks in the sun in the afternoon – in case it […]

Categories: grains & legumes, In the kitchen, pasta, seasons, spread, sauce & spice, spring, vegetable, vegetarian • Tags: carb, easy, fresh, green, legumes, lemon, pasta, pea, pulse, quick, ricotta, simple, spring, zest

The flavour of Christmas – Yeasted waffles Panettone style

December 22, 2016 by nadel&gabel

Before this blog goes into a little Christmas break and I fully immerse into real life with family, presents, a lot of game dishes, cookies, sweet liqueur,… I have a last recipe for this year left for you – obviously Christmas inspired. It’s warm crisp waffles and (kind of) Panettone or Christstollen, all in one! Hooray for Christmas! I boroughed the waffle base from Molly‘s challah waffles recipe, itself an adaption on the classic Belgian Gaufre de Liège. They’re pillowy soft, buttery […]

Categories: around the world, bread, cake, cookie & dessert, dairy-free, diets, German/Swabian, In the kitchen, seasons, snacks & small dishes, vegetarian, winter • Tags: bake, candied, challah, christmas, Christstollen, festive, lemon, liege, orange, Orangeat, panettone, pearl sugar, peel, recipe, sweet, waffle, winter, yeast

Kefi in da house – Water kefir lemonade with peach and hibiscus flower

July 31, 2016 by nadel&gabel

Since a few months we have a pet living with us: His name is Kefi, he is a water kefir. He wants to be fed regularly with sugar and dried fruits. But he is open for different flavour additions, too: fresh fruit, herbs, spices, tea,… A very open minded pet! Sometimes he rests in the fridge. When we wake him up again, he is a bit sleepy at the beginning, but then he fully starts working again. And he is working a […]

Categories: dairy-free, drinks, gluten-free, In the kitchen, spring, summer, vegan, vegetarian • Tags: acid, carbonate, cultur, drink, fermentation, flavour, flavoured, fruit, healthy, infuse, kefir, lemon, lemonade, probiotic, soda, water kefir

Good night – Lavender & lemon pillow spray

December 11, 2015 by nadel&gabel

Sometimes in the evening I feel like I can’t turn off my brain. My head is full of to-do-lists, adrenalin has be leading me through the day, and now it’s dark, I’m wrapped in my blanket, but the thoughts are circling and circling. Sleep is out of sight. Sometimes reading helps to get rid of the ballast of the day and getting tired. (I’m turning to children’s books lately.) Lately I came across the idea of pillow or linen sprays that contain essential […]

Categories: cosmetics, craft & DIY, digital design • Tags: aromatherapy, bed, calming, cosmetics, disorder, essential oil, insomnia, lavender, lemon, linen, pillow, sleep, spray, tutorial

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

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

Summer salad inspiration – and a forced break

July 20, 2014 by nadel&gabel

Sweet Corn, Peach, and Cherry Salad with Creamy Goat Cheese and a Lime Dressing – The Flourishing Foodie I could have prepared some blog posts in advance for the time when my camera is under repair … too much additional organisation effort at the moment. So – while my camera is in rehab, back home at the Nikon family, I have a collected some summer salad ideas for you around the web. They’re all from some of my favourite food […]

Categories: Blogging, Foodblogs I love, In the kitchen, salad, summer, vegetarian • Tags: blogging, cherries, chickpeas, couscous, fresh, fruit, grains, lemon, light, lime, nuts, olive, peach, recipe, salad, seeds, summer, vegetarian

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

Juicy – Citrus pound cake

February 1, 2014 by nadel&gabel

I know, it’s only a few days ago that I claimed that I am more into savoury than sweet dishes around this time of the year. Yeees, that’s still right, but then – when I walk across the market – those piles of various kinds of oranges, grapefruits and lemons don’t let me just pass either. Actually I am a great fan of lemon zest and juice throughout the year (Here, here, here and here are only some proofs.). So, […]

Categories: cake, cookie & dessert, dairy-free, In the kitchen, snacks & small dishes, summer, vegetarian, winter • Tags: baking, cake, citrus, cookie & dessert, easy, fresh, juice, lemon, light, orange, pound, recipe, summer, tea, winter, zest