Lithuanian in the USA

Delicious Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps / Skanieji salotų laiveliai su azijietiška vištiena

This is one of my favorite appetizers! Crispy lettuce leaves go so well with lightly sweet&spicy fried ground chicken. Because such appetizer is low in calories, you can eat quite a few wraps without a big remorse. I fell in love with this appetizer in Asian restaurants, but I always wanted to try to prepare…

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Baked Meatballs with Tomatoes and Olives / Mėsos kukuliai orkaitėje su pomidorų padažu ir alyvuogėmis

For a simple dinner, when you are bored of everything else – meatballs with tomato sauce and olives. You know the feeling when you don’t know what you want for lunch or dinner? Then you need to turn on your imagination, think about what to prepare, from what, how and etc… So I’ll make this…

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Quick and Easy Greek Yogurt Pancakes / Blynai su graikišku jogurtu

Suuuuper quick and easy to make pancakes! Soft, slightly sweet and so delicious… Ideal for breakfast. Although sometimes I eat such pancakes as a dessert, and why not? Depending with what and how you serve it 🙂 Now in the mornings there is no need to rush anywhere, neither to work nor to school, so…

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15 Sweet Ideas for Mother’s Day / 15 saldžių idėjų Motinos dienai

15 Sweet Ideas for Mother’s Day / 15 saldžių idėjų Motinos dienai Still thinking, how to surprise your mother during the Mother’s Day? Pick one (or more!) of these wonderful sweets and I guarantee, your mother will be very happy after receiving a sweet gift! 🙂 Dar sukate galvas, kaip nustebinti savo mamą Motinos dienos…

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Pineapple Cake with Light Buttercream / Ananasinis tortas su sviestiniu kremu

I have another cake day in my kitchen! This time I made a cake with light buttercream and canned pineapple. The best part is that the cake doesn’t need any special ingredients. The only ingredient that we usually don’t have at home is white chocolate. And everything else I think can really be found in…

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Nicoise-Style Tuna Salad / Nicos stiliaus tuno salotos

Nicoise salad is basically a slightly improved tuna salad with green beans, well, and also more often boiled potatoes. But I left boiled potatoes aside because I wanted a fresh and light salad that I enjoyed with a fragrant garlic bread. Because with a delicious oven-roasted bread all salads simply taste better. At least I…

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Indian Butter Chicken / Indiška vištiena pomidorų ir grietinėlės padaže “Butter chicken“

During the lockdown period, I am not very fond of ordering food from restaurants… I still don’t feel that much lazy in the kitchen that I couldn’t cook my own food. Therefore, I’m not only cooking regular meals, but also trying new recipes at the same time. I have made Indian chicken “Tikka masala” more…

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Chicken and Rice Soup / Vištienos sriuba su ryžiais ir daržovėmis

Healthy, filling and in a slightly different way prepared chicken and rice soup. Usually, when I make soup, I put the vegetables in a pot in turns, according to how long it takes to cook different vegetables. But this time I tried a little bit different version of the chicken and rice soup. First I…

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Puff Pastry Cups filled with Shrimp and Crab Salad / Sluoksniuotos tešlos krepšeliai su krevečių, krabų lazdelių ir salotų įdaru

We all know what the Easter situation will be like this year, although I still think every home will have a smaller, but still beautiful Easter table. And the main foods of the festive table are always the main course, dessert, and, of course, tempting appetizers. This is exactly what these puff pastry cups are….

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Peach and Strawberry Yogurt Cake / Gaivus jogurtinis tortas su persikais ir braškėmis

Since it’s an isolation time for everyone, so at least now I have endless time to bake cakes and try new recipes. Anyway, it’s extremely hard for me to force myself to bake a cake, because the whole process takes away almost most of the day, and it also takes a while to figure out…

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Traditional Lithuanian No Bake Lazy Cake / Tradicinis tinginys su pienu

This is a recipe for a traditional lazy cake that needs the simplest ingredients – cookies, milk, cocoa and sugar. I make such lazy cake quite rarely, because most often I’m really lazy to make chocolate syrup from milk, it is easier and faster to make it from condensed milk. But the taste of this…

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Indian Style Potatoes and Cauliflower (Aloo Gobi) / Bulvių ir kalafiorų troškinys indišku stiliumi (Aloo Gobi)

I am very fond of Indian cuisine for quite some time now. First of all, because of the spices used in Indian cuisine – the aroma of each dish is so tempting and it’s not only a delight to the eyes but also to the stomach. Besides, in Indian cuisine, the same sauce or seasoning…

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Lithuanian in the USA

Peach and Strawberry Yogurt Cake / Gaivus jogurtinis tortas su persikais ir braškėmis

Traditional Lithuanian No Bake Lazy Cake / Tradicinis tinginys su pienu

Fried Rye Bread, Carrot Salad and Salami Appetizer / Keptos duonos, morkų ir dešros sumuštinukai

Perfect Creamy Tomato Soup / Tobula trinta pomidorų sriuba

Vegetarian Mexican Tostadas / Meksikietiškas užkandis – vegetariški tortilijų skrebučiai

The Best Chocolate Cheesecake / Skaniausias šokoladinis kreminio sūrio tortas (Cheesecake)

Delicious Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps / Skanieji salotų laiveliai su azijietiška vištiena

Baked Meatballs with Tomatoes and Olives / Mėsos kukuliai orkaitėje su pomidorų padažu ir alyvuogėmis

Quick and Easy Greek Yogurt Pancakes / Blynai su graikišku jogurtu

15 Sweet Ideas for Mother’s Day / 15 saldžių idėjų Motinos dienai

Pineapple Cake with Light Buttercream / Ananasinis tortas su sviestiniu kremu

Nicoise-Style Tuna Salad / Nicos stiliaus tuno salotos

Indian Butter Chicken / Indiška vištiena pomidorų ir grietinėlės padaže “Butter chicken“

Chicken and Rice Soup / Vištienos sriuba su ryžiais ir daržovėmis

Puff Pastry Cups filled with Shrimp and Crab Salad / Sluoksniuotos tešlos krepšeliai su krevečių, krabų lazdelių ir salotų įdaru

Peach and Strawberry Yogurt Cake / Gaivus jogurtinis tortas su persikais ir braškėmis

Traditional Lithuanian No Bake Lazy Cake / Tradicinis tinginys su pienu

Indian Style Potatoes and Cauliflower (Aloo Gobi) / Bulvių ir kalafiorų troškinys indišku stiliumi (Aloo Gobi)