Fruity and smoky – Homemade tomato rhubarb ketchup

May 30, 2014 by nadel&gabel

Suddenly it seams that ketchup is improving every meal. – I guess, I am obsessed. Withing two weeks it has become my go-to condiment. How come? It all started with this recipe I stumbled upon. I hesitated – tomato ketchup: all right – rhubarb ketchup: ? But after thinking twice, imagining the taste, I found this sounded very promising – especially for a lover of tart fruits. And it is! Whoever had this idea in the first place – I […]

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Tart love – Strawberry rhubarb shrub

May 16, 2014 by nadel&gabel

You thought there wouldn’t be a strawberry or/and rhubarb recipe on this blog this spring?! – Of course not! How could I leave out these great spring fruits! (I know, botanically rhubarb is a vegetable.) Besides a strawberry cake I am still experimenting with, rhubarb stalks and strawberries were excessively used in my kitchen the last weeks. Some things I made were – strawberry Eton mess (similar to this) – a braided brioche filled with strawberries (based on this recipe) […]

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Upside down – Caramelized rhubarb cake with elderflower ricotta topping

June 3, 2012 by nadel&gabel

Our traditional family recipe for rhubarb cake (and a lot of other fruit and berry cakes) consists of rhubarb chunks that are spread on sweet batter and are topped with nutty meringue. Although I love this great recipe from my grandmother, an all time favourite, this year I experimented a bit with some other ways to bring rhubarb, my tart love that’s always gone to fast, into a cake.

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