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

Notes from within the snail shell – Pfitzauf

January 31, 2016 by nadel&gabel

Retreating into the shell like a snail – sometimes this sounds so promising (despite the fact that I am afraid of snails). When the outside world is chaotic, complicated, discouraging, there’s my snail reflex: roll in, withdraw, stay within the shell that shields me. How long could one possibly hide under the bed sheet? Probably quite a while as long as the ingredients for such a simple dish like “Pfitzauf” – the traditional Swabian version of popovers – are in the house. As […]

Categories: breakfast, cake, cookie & dessert, German/Swabian, In the kitchen, Uncategorized, vegetarian • Tags: baking, breakfast, cinnamon, easy, eggs, oven, pancake, Pfitzauf, popovers, recipe, sugar, swabian, sweet

On any day in September – Zwetschgekucha

September 23, 2015 by nadel&gabel

If not now, when is the perfect time for a juice plum cake?! So, although I’ve still got some travel impressions to share, they have to wait and make place for this traditional German autumn cake. It’s a recipe for the high season of autumn fruits, when you have so much of them that you squeeze as much as you can onto a layer of simple yeast dough. Top it with streusel – here we go! Still, a few notes […]

Categories: autumn, cake, cookie & dessert, German/Swabian, In the kitchen, summer, vegetarian • Tags: almond, autumn, cake, cinnamon, classic, cookie & dessert, damson, dough, easy, german, plum, recipe, simple, swabian, warm, yeast, zwetschge

Swabian sweet tooth – Schupfnudeln with apple compote and cinnamon sugar

November 29, 2014 by nadel&gabel

It’s getting colder outside slowly around here and as winter and Christmas is getting closer my cravings for the flavours of my childhood  – long known dishes, linked with memories – are growing. Schupfnudeln are one of those meals. They are a swabian kind of noodles or dumplings, sometimes translates with ‘finger noodles’ – referring to their shape. The dough itself is similar to the italian gnocci dough – although there exist versions that are only made with flour and […]

Categories: autumn, cake, cookie & dessert, dairy-free, German/Swabian, In the kitchen, pasta, vegetarian, winter • Tags: apple, autumn, cinnamon, compote, dough, dumpling, german, gnocci, noodle, potato, preserve, recipe, rustic, Sauerkraut, savoury, Schupfnudeln, South, sugar, swabian, sweet, traditional, warm, winter

Black and White Wednesday: Flädlesuppe/Swabian pancake soup

October 26, 2011 by nadel&gabel

Do you also have your dishes with this instant feel-good-guarantee? In my opinion,  it is usually about those simple dishes that remind us of our childhood. However, my favourite dish when I feel I urgently need a dose of coziness and well-being is this Flädlesuppe, which is literally a soup of small pancakes. It is a regional Swabian dish, which can be found in Austria as well under the name of Frittatensuppe. It is a totally easy and quick recipe, […]

Categories: Behind the camera, black & white, Black and white, German/Swabian, In the kitchen, soup & stew, vegetarian • Tags: cooking, food, german, Germany, pancake, photography, recipe, soup, stock, swabian, winter

Grandmas Träubleskucha / Red currant cake

August 26, 2011 by nadel&gabel

In dialect the famous swabian red currant cake is called ‘Träubleskucha’. This can be quite confusing for people not familiar to swabian dialect, because the name actually suggests that is a cake made of little grapes (‘Träuble’), which it obviously isn’t. But if you think of the appearance of a bunch of grapes and currants – well, there is some similarity after all. If it comes to the best recipe for this swabian red currant cake, for me the answer […]

Categories: cake, cookie & dessert, German/Swabian, In the kitchen, summer, vegetarian • Tags: almond, baking, berries, cake, cookie & dessert, food, german, Germany, nuts, recipe, red currant, summer, swabian

Lentil salad with goat cheese

May 20, 2011 by nadel&gabel

Since this is my first post I decided to present a recipe which is one of my all-time favorites.

Categories: gluten-free, grains & legumes, In the kitchen, salad, vegetarian • Tags: cooking, food, goat cheese, legumes, lentil, recipe, salad, swabian