This is one of my favorite Lithuanian salad 🙂 Traditional, simple and filling fried bread salad is not only quite popular in Lithuanian cuisine, but prepared often as well, especially during festive occasions. Or it is one of the way how to use a little dried bread, when you don’t want to throw it away. Although, it’s…
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Mexican Tomato Salsa (Pico de Gallo)/Meksikietiškos pomidorų salotos (Pico de Gallo)
Pico de Gallo is a Mexican salad (also known as salsa), which fits with a wide range of meals and snacks. This salad is prepared very quickly and easily, and the taste is awesome! Pico de Gallo in Latin American cuisine is usually eaten together with tacos, fajitas, various grilled meats and fish. The salsa is…
American Burgers with Homemade Buns/Amerikietiški mėsainiai su naminėmis bandelėmis
As an Italian cuisine is unimaginable without pasta and pizza, an American cuisine is unimaginable without hot dogs and hamburgers. This recipe is a classic burger recipe, but you can “layer“ the burger by yourself, use a variety of sauces, vegetables and other stuff. Of course, you can buy burger buns at a supermarket, but…
Very Simple and Delicious Apple Pie / Labai paprastas ir skanus obuolių pyragas
Very soft, fluffy and moist apple pie, that just melts in your mouth! This pie is very tasty when it’s served still warm with ice cream or heavy cream. When the pie cools down – it’s perfect with the afternoon coffee or tea cup. The preparation of the pie is pretty fast, and it disappears from…
Chicken Fajitas (Fajitas de Pollo)/Vištienos fajitos (Fajitas de Pollo)
Perhaps it would be difficult to find someone, who doesn’t like fajitas! If you’ve never made them at home, then it’s high time to try! Fajita is a Tex-Mex (Texas-Mexican) dish consisting of tortillas, fried meat, roasted or fresh vegetables, various sauces and other stuff. In other words, the dish is very versatile, you can…
Chaulafan de Pollo – Ecuadorian Style Fried Rice with Chicken / Chaulafan de Pollo – kepti ryžiai su vištiena ekvadorietiškai
In my kitchen I am very keen on trying new, not yet tasted dishes and flavors. Every time I make something from Latin American cuisine I have found unrealistically delicious dishes, which I have never made, or even tasted before. Chaulafan is one of them 🙂 To make chaulafan takes long enough, but the dish…
Catalan Chickpeas (Garbanzos a la Catalana) / Avinžirnų troškinys kataloniškai (Garbanzos a la Catalana)
Chickpeas are very widely used in Spanish and Latin American cuisines. In both cuisines there can be found a wide variety of recipes with chickpeas, only remains to choose what you like the most. This catalan chickpea stew is very tasty and nutritious, and, of course – very satisfying! Moreover, it’s a vegetarian stew, so…
Farmer’s Cheese Cookies with Apples / Varškės skarelės su obuoliais
Farmer’s cheese cookies with apple slices are very well known in every Lithuanian’s kitchen. I have no idea where this recipe came from, but even my grandmother used to bake them, so I suspect that the recipe is fairly old. Crunchy on the outside and soft inside – that kind of farmer’s cheese and apple…
Vegetarian Mushroom Quiche/Vegetariškas pievagrybių kišas
I really love this mushroom quiche. This is one of those dishes when you don’t want anything meaty, but still want to have a filling meal. The preparation of quiche is truly easy – prepare the dough, when the dough is getting cold, make the filling. Then you’ll just have to form the base for…
Brigadeiros – Brazilian Chocolate Caramel Truffles / Brigadeiros – braziliški šokoladiniai-karameliniai triufeliai
These beautiful brigadeiro sweets are made super easy and you need just 4 ingredients! This is a great sweet for those who are looking for a simple, sweet ideas for holidays or every day treat for yourself. Brigadeiro truffles came from Brazil, where you can find many kinds of brigadeiro options. I usually like to…
Spanish Adobo Chicken Recipe/Ispaniškas adobo vištienos receptas
Probably after reading the name of the recipe many of you have a question in your head – what is adobo? Adobo – is a marinade for meat products, which main ingredients are chili powder, oregano, vinegar, salt and garlic. Of course, in addition you can add other herbs. Adobo marinade was “invented“ in Spain,…
Baked Mac and Cheese / Amerikietiškas makaronų ir sūrio apkepas (Mac and Cheese)
It’s just impossible to imagine American cuisine without macaroni and cheese. I have no doubt that every American housewife has its own, unique recipe how to prepare the most delicious macaroni with cheese. My recipe is very simple and traditional, so you’ll make the meal with little efforts. Macaroni and cheese is not only tasty,…
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