Homemade pasta mania

March 5, 2017 by nadel&gabel

Last weekend I spend with my best friend Anna and her sweet little daughter at my parents home. Besides of course sharing time with my parents and revelling in memories we had a clear mission: Letting my mother’s new pasta maker run hot! For two days we tested all of her matrices that form different shapes of pasta: Campanelle, Trulli, Spaghetti, Tagliatelle, Fusilli, Mafaldine, … We made all of them and a whole lot! We experienced with wheat and spelt semolina, made pasta […]

Categories: German/Swabian, In the kitchen, pasta • Tags: campanelle, culture, egg, food, fusilli, häussler, Heimat, home, homemade, lentil flour, machine, mafaldine, making, memory, noodle, pasta, semolina, south germany, swabian, tagliatelle, trulli

Say cheese! – Fresh mini gugls

May 5, 2013 by nadel&gabel

Addictive! Eat one of these little sweeties and you won’t be able to stop until the plate is empty – except for a few crumbs. At least this happened to me when a friend offered me them the first time. I urgently needed the recipe and I didn’t fully believe her, when she said that the recipe was totally easy, probably the most easiest recipe ever … But I can tell you: She didn’t exaggerate! Only four ingredients, only whisking […]

Categories: cake, cookie & dessert, In the kitchen, snacks & small dishes, vegetarian • Tags: baking, cake, cookie & dessert, cheese, curd cheese, easy, food, gugl, lime, muffin, quark, recipe, semolina

Hot like the Calabrian sun – Pizza with nduja, pecorino and rocket

May 23, 2012 by nadel&gabel

This blog post is dedicated to a single glorious product, a Calabrian sausage speciality called nduja. “A sausage? Your making a fuss about a sausage?!” – Yes, because nduja is so much more than a simple sausage (And as a German I know what I am talking about):

Categories: In the kitchen, pizza, quiche & tart, spread, sauce & spice, vegetable • Tags: baking, bread, dough, food, italian, Italy, pecorino cheese, pizza, recipe, rocket, sausage, semolina, yeast