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Beach essentials

Beach essentials ?

July 13, 2019 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

While heading to the park hoping to catch a ray of sunlight, I was thinking about my holidays, when warm weather and beautiful beaches were in my menu everyday. Remember when you shared with me all your beach essentials’ wisdom? I saved the answers & created a checklist for you. It covers everything from health…

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1 year in Dublin, lost in translation stories

June 7, 2019 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

I moved to Dublin exactly 1 year ago, and this has been the most rewarding adventure so far. But, there are a lot of things I’ve missed during this year, one of those is my language, my dear Albanian language. The Albanian community is getting bigger and luckily my better half is here with me,…

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Seafood platter: carpet clam, venus clam, mahogany clam, razor clam

Noma, an ode to food

March 22, 2019 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

Lovely Copenhagen, why it took me so many years to visit you? Copenhagen wasn’t even in my travel plan(I am a hopeless planner), but some very cheap Ryanair tickets somehow made it happen. Noma, on the other hand was in my plans since forever, but seemed mission impossible. What happened was simple, my better half…

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2018 book challenge completed, 2019 book challenge accepted :)

January 6, 2019 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

Confession, I’ve always been a geek, even when I was a little girl that could barely read. I wanted to stay home all day, play by myself, watch TV and read, yesss READ. My mother would literally force me to go outside and play with my friends, so I could also train/gain my socializing skills….

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Welcome to Mandarina Yum!

mmMy name is Ejona Varangu and I am a full time researcher in the telecommunication industry, and part time food blogger. I blog from a small apartment in Tirana, Albania, where I live with my better half and our two cats Weirdo and Pixel.

I started cooking in late 2013, when I decided to live alone, and I missed the great homemade dishes that my mum prepared, before that, I couldn’t even boil an egg by myself. Little by little I started experimenting with new ingredients and techniques and I loved every single minute of it. Find out more…

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Simple almond cake

Almond cake

Walnut and chocolate chips cookies

Chocolate and walnut cookies – recipe for the classic little bites of heaven from Double Tree Hotel

Petulla - Albanian Donuts

Petulla – Albanian donuts

Spinach casserole

Spinach casserole

Chocolate Baklava

Chocolate & walnuts baklava

Rye bread

Homemade rye bread

Ciabatta

Classic ciabatta

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