Milk soup with star pasta – it’s one of my favorite childhood dishes 🙂 My grandmother used to make this soup very often. I used to add some sugar to my soup and grandmother – some salt. Instead of star pasta sometimes she used pasta shaped in little letters. And I would say it was…
Žyma: Lithuanian kitchen
Mashed Potatoes with Bacon and Onions/Bulvių košė su spirgučiais ir svogūnu
Traditional, Lithuanian mashed potatoes, such as my grandma used to make 🙂 Even now I remember how she used to say when I was a kid – you shouldn’t lick mashed potatoes from a rolling pin (at those days it was a thick potato masher, which my grandma was using), because you’ll get a husband…
Easter Poppy Seed Rolls/Velykinės bandelės su aguonomis
One of the most delicious rolls with poppy seeds!!! I was planning to bake these rolls for a while and I finally found time. Poppy seed rolls will very smartly decorate your Easter table, I have no doubt about that! 🙂 For the filling I chose already prepared poppy seed mixture (see the photo below), which…
Buckwheat with Bacon and Onion (no boiling)/Grikiai su spirgučiais ir svogūnu (nereikia virti)
Buckwheat is one of the healthiest grains, providing not only energy, but also helps with digestion, obesity, cholesterol, blood pressure and other problems. These small grains itself contains a variety of vitamins and other substances the body needs. So if you don’t use buckwheat in your daily diet, I strongly recommend to start using it….
Lithuanian Meat Pies “Kibinai“ / Patys skaniausi kibinai
Kibinas (or Lithuanian meat pie) is a particularly popular snack in Lithuania. I am sure, if you visit any town in Lithuania you’ll find at least one place where you can buy kibinas. Very often you can buy them still warm in a supermarket or buy frozen ones and bake at home. Kibinas is the…
Cacao Curd Cheesecake/Kakavinis varškės pyragas
Soft, simple and delicious curd ccheeseake with cocoa. You’ll make this cake easy, without much effort. If you don’t have time, it’s not necessary to grind curd cheese using the sieve, then just the filling will be with a very small curd cheese pieces, but this doesn’t change the taste. After baking, the cheesecake batter…
Yellow Split Pea with Bacon/Žirniai su spirgučiais
Traditional, Lithuanian and very tasty – yellow split peas with bacon for filling lunch or dinner. This dish goes very well as a snack with beer. In Lithuania such peas with bacon can be ordered at bars or some restaurants. If you dont’t like bacon, you can just season cooked peas with fried onions –…
Meat Dumplings with Bacon and Onion Sauce/Koldūnai su spirgučių ir svogūnų padažu
Sometimes, when you are thinking what to cook today, we often forget the most simple and delicious dishes. Dumplings – a quick and satisfying dish that simply no one can ever fail to make. Of course, I mean the frozen dumplings, since homemade dumplings take looots of efforts to make… But let’s leave homemade dumpling…
Fluffy Pancakes with Kefir/Purūs blyneliai su kefyru
Fat Tuesday is already here, so winter must end soon! Well, at least it should. Fat Tuesday in Lithuania is a very ancient and a traditional feast. It is a winter day when we have to send away winter and invite spring. This day is plus/minus known throughout all Europe. During Fat Tuesday you have…
Lazy Meatballs with Cabbage (Lithuanian Cabbage Rolls in different way)/Tinginių balandėliai
As it’s known very well in Lithuania, cabbage rolls or “Balandėliai“are one of the traditional Lithuanian dishes, without Lithuanian kitchen is almost unimaginable. But since the preparation of the original cabagge rolls takes a lot of time – I suggest to try (if you have never tried) to make the lazy meatballs with cabbage….
Potato Pancakes with Stewed Cabbage/Žemaičių blynai su šviežiais troškintais kopūstai
Traditionally, these stuffed Lithuanian potato pancakes (a.k.a. Žemaičių blynai) are made with boiled, minced meat, but for that you need to boil the meat, then mince it, in other words, lots of work… Since I wanted these pancakes so much, so I decided to make it in a simpler and faster way – stuff the…
Lithuanian Anthill / Lietuviškas skruzdėlynas
Today, I congratulate my homeland Lithuania on Independence Day! On February 16, 1918 it was signed the Lithuanian Independence Act, which re-established Lithuania as an independent country. For this joyful occasion I want to share with you one very traditional, Lithuanian and in my family one of favorite sweets – anthill. If you have never heard…
Lithuanian in the USA 