Preserving flavour – How I store herbs

March 28, 2015 by nadel&gabel

After posting the herbed pasta recipe last week, I thought it maybe would be convenient to tell you a little bit about how I store and preserve my herbs. We don’t have a garden or balcony (yet?), so I am always limited with growing my own herbs (Only rosemary survived the winter on at the kitchen window :(.) But these days, the farmer’s markets are displaying an expanding range of fresh herbs. But how to keep them if you don’t […]

Categories: dairy-free, gluten-free, In the kitchen, pantry, vegan, vegetarian • Tags: basil, blend, cilantro, coriander, Craft, dill, dry, freeze, herbs, italian, kitchen, marjoram, mint, mix, oregano, parsley, preserve, recipe, rosemary, sage, season, spice, storage, thai, thyme

Creamy herbed spaghetti & Uli’s secret to cooking pasta

March 22, 2015 by nadel&gabel

Lately I visited my friend Ulrike and at noon when we sat together for a quick lunch – a pot of pasta and a good pesto – I had this moment of enlightenment: For the first time I was realizing that her pasta always tasted better than mine, that it had this special flavour that turned even the simplest pasta dish into something extraordinary. … It turned out to be a simple leave of laurel that she is cooking with […]

Categories: dairy-free, In the kitchen, pasta, spread, sauce & spice, spring, vegetarian • Tags: basil, carbonara, cooking, easy, herbs, italian, laurel, lunch, parmesan, parsley, pasta, pecorino, quick, recipe, rosemary, spaghetti, spring, thyme

Black and White Wednesday – Olive Rosemary Focaccia

September 28, 2011 by nadel&gabel

Before I started to bake my first focaccia, I read myself through a lot of recipes on the internet, in my cooking books, magazines… I finally chose the one of Tamara Novacoviç on  Honest Cooking for my first trial – a good decision. The speciality of her recipe: the starter dough is left to raise for 24 hours. The effect is that “you’ll get a dreamy fragrant focaccia” as Tamara states rightly! Come and join Black and White Wednesday.

Categories: Behind the camera, black & white, Black and white, bread, dairy-free, In the kitchen, vegan, vegetarian • Tags: baking, focaccia, food, italian, olives, rosemary