Herring with carrots and raisins is a real Christmas Eve (Kūčios) dish for me. As far as I remember, at least one herring dish was with carrots and raisins (or sometimes also with nuts) during every Christmas Eve dinner. I’m not sure if this herring dish become a traditional one just amongst my family and…
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Herring with Tomato Sauce / Silkės užkandėlė su pomidorų padažu
It’s been a while since I’ve made something from herring. Well, there isn’t much cooking using herring, you just need to prepare a sauce or some relish and slice herring fillet. But this time I wanted to prepare herring somewhat differently, not as usually. So if you decide to try my recipe – have patience…
Easy Beetroot, Potato and Bean Salad / Burokėlių, bulvių ir pupelių mišrainė
I could hardly imagine at least one Christmas Eve or Christmas dinner without this salad. It’s just essential salad on Lithuanian festive table. If I think about an appearance of a festive table in Lithuania, I always have an image like this in my head – plates with a variety of meats, a couple fish…
Farmer Cheese Pie with Raspberries and Coconut / Varškės pyragas su avietėmis ir kokosu
If you read my blog, you probably already know that I really like baked goods with farmer cheese. I love farmer cheese cheesecakes, pies, pancakes and etc. I always want to try some new baked goods with farmer cheese, so today I have sort of merged two beloved pies – cheesecake and crumble pie. So…
Lithuanian Schnitzel with White Sauce / Šniceliai su balta duona ir padažu (kaip valgykloje!)
About 20 years ago, my grandmother used to take me to eat Lithuanian type of schnitzels at the canteen called “Eglė“ in Prienai (my hometown). Back then I thought that there was nothing more delicious in this world than that schnitzel… The fun time with my grandma and amazingly delicious schnitzel stayed in my memories…
Farmer Cheese Pancakes with Apple / Varškėčiai su obuoliu
I really like pancakes with apple. During fall season, these are one of my favorite pancakes, but equally the same I love farmer cheese pancakes (varškėčiai), so farmer cheese pancakes + apple = the ideal version of farmer cheese pancakes 🙂 When you add apple to the farmer cheese dough, they become much softer and…
Lazy Unstuffed Cabbage Rolls / Tinginių balandėliai keptuvėje
Lithuanian cuisine is hardly imaginable without zeppelins (a.k.a potato dumplings) as well as without stuffed cabbage rolls (in Lithuanian they are called balandėliai (little pigeons)). And I, as a sworn Lithuanian cuisine fan, am a stuffed cabbage roll lover. Well, but the whole preparation process of stuffed cabbage rolls sometimes simply takes forever… Starting of cabbage…
Potato, Farmer’s Cheese and Sausage Pancakes / Bulviniai blynai su varške ir dešrelėmis
This is an improved potato pancakes recipe, which serves very well when you want a delicious and more interesting dinner or lunch. Pancakes, of course, are the most delicious when served with sour cream, but Greek yoghurt or fresh yoghurt dressing with cucumbers would fit great too. I grated potatoes using two types of graters…
Crispy Fried Pastry Ribbons / Traškūs žagarėliai
This delicious crispy pastry ribbons are impossible to resist! It looks like a very simple sweet pastry, that requires just a few ingredients, but the taste is so home like, so cozy, that you could eat a whole plate at once… When you’re having a great time watching a good movie or reading an interesting book,…
Kuršėnai Sweet Roll Cake / Kuršėnų vyniotinis
Somewhere in the internet I accidentally saw a picture of this cake roll and immediately decided that it’s just necessary to make it at home. I’ve eaten Kuršėnai sweet roll cake such a long time ago, so I don’t even remember when it was… Maybe 2-3 years ago. But it’s never too late to remember…
Baked Whistlers (Švilpikai) / Švilpikai orkaitėje
Whistlers are one of the dish that I’m crazy about and I could eat it for several days in a row 🙂 Because of this, mostly, when I cook them, I always double the portion, that it would be enough for a few days. My husband is also a big fan of this dish (I’m…
Traditional Dressed Herring / Tradicinė silkė pataluose
As with most Lithuanians, dressed herring is a very common dish not only on Easter, but also on other major holidays. It’s almost a tradition. This dish looks always very nice on the table, and it can be both – a side dish and salad. Dressed herring can be served not only in this way as…
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