Sweet prospects – Pasteis de nata

May 28, 2015 by nadel&gabel

Imagine a small bar/café, a cup of coffee (good coffee!) and a small piece of sweet pastry in front of you, combine this with a stunning view on the surrounding landscape (at least one of the following: sea, river, mountain, old town) – and you have it: my quintessence of holiday, my pictured wanderlust! As we are planning our summer holiday in Portugal at the moment, these memories – and prospects! – come to my mind and with them memories […]

Categories: cake, cookie & dessert, In the kitchen, snacks & small dishes, vegetarian • Tags: belem, bica, cinnamon, coffee, cream, custard, nata, pasteis, pastel, pastry, Portugal, portuguese, puff, recipe, sweet, tartlet

Dimensional – Geometric wall art

May 18, 2013 by nadel&gabel

New season, new decoration! For quite a while now I had the idea to create something similiar to those cute snug. magnets. The optical illusions created simply by rhombs arranged in different ways is fascinating. And the wall next to my working desk definitely needed a renewal. At least I am sitting there many hours each day. This would be a great eyecatcher and bring as well a bit more wideness (at least visual) into this corner of the room. […]

Categories: craft & DIY, interior, paper • Tags: art, Craft, craft & DIY, cube, decoration, design, dimensional, easy, geometric, hexagon, paper, pastel, pattern, retro, rhomb, wall

…and even more Bauhaus

April 1, 2013 by nadel&gabel

After years of planing to do this, we finally visited the Weissenhofsiedlung and museum in Stuttgart this Easter weekend. Definitely worth a visit! It was developed as a showcase of a “new living” (Neues Wohnen) in the 1920s by the “Deutscher Werkbund” (remember the similar project of the Austrian “Werkbund”?) and the city of Stuttgart. The initiative came from no other than Ludwig Mies van der Rohe – yes, the one who designed the German pavillon on the 1929 World […]

Categories: Behind the camera, Germany, objects & places, On the road, travel • Tags: architecture, avantgarde, Bauhaus, building, concrete, design, interieur, Le Corbusier, Mis van der Rohe, modern, pastel, photography

Candy love

November 18, 2011 by nadel&gabel

I fell in love … with candys. And I am not talking about ordinary candys, but about Pastiglie Leone, a traditional italian candy company. I discovered them by accident and I will never be able to enjoy other candys again! They’re my new favourite treat at the moment, and I am far from having tested all flavours… It is not only the flavour – I am in love with cinnamon – but it is also the handmade look of each […]

Categories: around the world • Tags: candy, colour palette, gift, pastel, sweet, traditional