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Oyster mushrooms, walnuts and parmesan pasta

Oyster mushrooms and walnuts pasta

October 17, 2018 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

My weekends are all about pasta, because they’re so easy to make and soooo good. This time I’m gonna share with you an easy peasy recipe with only 6 ingredients, mushrooms and parmesan pasta. I love the smell of this dish and it’s earthy flavor, just perfect for autumn. All you need is pasta, onion,…

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Filed Under: Fast & Easy, Recipes, Savory Tagged With: 30 minutes dinner, 30 minutes lunch, easy pasta recipe, mushroom pasta, pasta, vegetarian dinner, vegetarian lunch, vegetarian recipes

Eggs in yogurt

Eggs in yogurt

September 29, 2018 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

I wasn’t sure if I needed to write a blog post about this recipe, because it’s so simple, it’s hard to call it a recipe. It’s practically a layer of yogurt flavored with olive oil and a crispy egg on top. Anyway, the geek in me, that wants to have everything in order decided to…

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Filed Under: Fast & Easy, Recipes, Savory, Super healthy Tagged With: brunch, Eggs in yogurt, turkish recipe, vegetarian brunch

Asparagus & trout pasta

Asparagus & trout pasta

September 9, 2018 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

Life is so fast since I moved here in Dublin, and I’m loving every minute of it. But, this also has its cost, less time for my favorite activity, cooking for my family When in a hurry pasta comes to help, so today I’m sharing with you a simple and delicious dish that I mixed…

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Filed Under: Fast & Easy, Recipes, Savory, Super healthy

Eggs Florentine

Eggs Florentine – Brunch at its best

August 19, 2018 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

Hello from Dublin. I’ve been living here the past two months and couldn’t be happier. The city is cozy with low buildings and big gorgeous park, and the people are the best I’ve met, cheerful and loving. I miss many things from Albania though, as I say, happiness is homemade and that tiny corner of…

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Mediterranean wraps

Mediterranean wraps

May 19, 2018 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

It’s a beautiful day, and all I can think of is spending the day outside. Sunbathing, reading books, playing cards with friends, and of course have delicious food. The recipe I bring to you today is a homemade wrap filled with all delicious ingredients that a Mediterranean country offers: tomatoes, cucumber, olives, lettuce, feta. All…

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Filed Under: Collaborations, Fast & Easy, Recipes, Savory Tagged With: easy lubch, mediterranean cuisine, picnic food, vegetarian dinner, vegetarian souvlaki

Pita bread

May 14, 2018 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

Pita bread is a simple recipe of my family that has my heart. You only need flour, yogurt and an egg to make it, and some olive oil to cook it. Pita bread is delicious on its own, accompanied by some feta cheese and fresh tomatoes, wrapped up as a souvlaki or with a drizzle…

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Filed Under: Fast & Easy, Recipes, Savory, Sweet, Traditional Tagged With: albanian cuisine, flat bread, homemade bread, homemade pita, homemade wrap, pita bread

Vegetarian Lasagna

Lasagna o’clock

May 6, 2018 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

It’s lasagna o’clock. I can’t think of another recipe that has the power to bring all the family together, with such joy and well hunger. :p Besides that lasagna is perfect to feed a crowd, and for a big family like mine, is the best Sunday lunch solution. No big family, no problem, you can…

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Filed Under: Collaborations, Recipes, Savory Tagged With: delicios lasagna, easy lasagna recipe, how to make lasagna at home, vegetarian lasagna

Smoked trout salad

Smoked trout salad – Bake My Day Happy recipe for Mandarina’s readers

April 30, 2018 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

Hi everyone, this is Nevila from Bake My Day Happy, but today you can call me Mandarina :), I won’t mind. I’ve initiated this guest-posting game between us food bloggers not only to share our experiences, but most of all to have fun. When I proposed this to Valbona and Ejona they welcomed it and…

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Filed Under: Collaborations, Fast & Easy, Recipes, Savory, Super healthy Tagged With: bake my day happy, delicious salad, easy recipe, how to smoke trout, pescatarian recipe, salad for lunch, Smoked trout salad

Taco Tuesday

Quick & easy vegetarian tacos, for your #tacoTuesday gatherings

April 23, 2018 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

Some days ago I wrote a long post on tacos, on how delicious and easy they are, and the recipes for different fillings. The post got very popular, and I couldn’t be happier. I feel I own you another taco recipe, this one is quicker and yet delicious. The perfect recipe to make when you…

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Filed Under: Collaborations, Fast & Easy, Recipes, Savory Tagged With: delicious tacos made at home, super quick taco recipes, taco tuesday, vegetarian tacos

Risotto with peas and parsley pesto

Risotto with peas and parsley pesto

April 8, 2018 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

Spring brings the beloved colorful vegetables with which we can create so many dishes. Fresh peas are now in the markets and I can’t wait to start cooking with them. Besides the classical dishes with peas with which we grew up, we can definitely be creative and include them in salads, soups, purée, pasta and…

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Filed Under: Collaborations, Fast & Easy, Recipes, Savory Tagged With: how to make delicious risotto at home, risotto, risotto with peas, Risotto with peas and parsley pesto, spring risotto, vegetarian risotto

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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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