Feed a crowd – Winter Chili con carne à la Jamie

December 6, 2014 by nadel&gabel

Chili con carne … for me is kind of synonymous for food in huge pots feeding crowds – the classic recipe that was cooked in youth camps, on school trips, big partys. You only needed one big pot. Everyone could do it (somehow) and you could cook together: someone chopped masses of bell peppers, another one onions until his/her face was covered in tears, someone stir-fried minced beef … and the less talented at least could open the cans of […]

Categories: autumn, dairy-free, gluten-free, In the kitchen, meat, soup & stew, vegetable, winter • Tags: beans, carne, chili, coriander, fennel, hearty, Jamie Oliver, paprika, party, pumpkin, recipe, rustic, smoky, soup, squash, stew, warm, winter

What can be wrong with it? – Spicy chocolate cake with pear

November 1, 2014 by nadel&gabel

This post is about a chocolate cake, so there can’t be much wrong with it, eh? Especially as we are digging deeper into the cold season… The base of this cake comes from Izy. You don’t know her blog “Top with cinnamon” yet? Jump over and be convinced by her recipes, pictures and words. Since she has just released her first cookbook, her recipes are spreading the food blog scene recently and her version of a Swedish chocolate cake seams […]

Categories: autumn, breakfast, cake, cookie & dessert, dairy-free, In the kitchen, snacks & small dishes, vegetarian, winter • Tags: allspice, autumn, baking, cake, chocolate, cinnamon, cookie & dessert, cozy, fudge, ginger, kladdkaka, pear, pumpkin, recipe, spice, sweden, swedish, warm, winter

Baked cosiness – Spicy pumpkin bundt cake with apples

September 20, 2014 by nadel&gabel

 Every season has its cake (at least one!). This one is packed with autumnal produce like pumpkin and apple … accompagnied by the warming spices cinnamon – apples are hard to imagine without – ginger and nutmeg. Can a cake be described as cosy? – If yes, than this cake IS cosiness. It’s an easy to mix up cake, not too sweet, moist, flavourful and colourful – just the right thing to nibble with a cup of tea or coffee […]

Categories: autumn, cake, cookie & dessert, dairy-free, In the kitchen, snacks & small dishes, vegetarian • Tags: apple, autumn, baking, brown, bundt, butter, cake, caramel, cinnamon, coffee, cookie & dessert, cozy, fall, ginger, nutmeg, pound, pumpkin, recipe, spice

Flavourful – Autumnal lasagna with pumpkin and chanterelles

October 26, 2013 by nadel&gabel

Due to the fact that at the moment my days just seem to have not enough hours, this time here’s only a plain recipe – that I however didn’t want to hold back from you. It’s an lasagna packed with autumnal flavours of pumpkin and chantarelles. Spices like cinnamon, allspice, clove it perfectly pair with these. They also kind of anticipate the approaching winter with it’s warm scents. Autumnal lasagna with pumpkin and chanterelles (2-3p., 26 cm x 18 cm […]

Categories: autumn, In the kitchen, meat, pasta, vegetable, vegetarian, winter • Tags: allspice, autumn, chanterelles, cinnamon, cloves, fall, food, ginger, italian, lasagna, pasta, pumpkin, recipe, spice, winter

“Baker man is baking bread” – Baking and cooking for and with kids

August 10, 2012 by nadel&gabel

During the last two weeks I stayed several days with my good friends in the Palatine Forest, where they regularly run the kitchen of a youth camp in the middle of nowhere. The ambition of them as chefs is to distance from the usual simple, neither good nor healthy and often convenience food people serve, when they’re cooking for big groups. In contrary they try to make as much as possible themselves and use natural, if possible regional products for […]

Categories: Behind the camera, bread, cake, cookie & dessert, German/Swabian, Germany, In the kitchen, meat, nature, On the road, salad, snacks & small dishes, spread, sauce & spice, summer, travel, vegetarian • Tags: bread, bun, burger, food, forest, Palatine, photography, pretzel, pumpkin, rural, salad, summer, tarte flambée