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Tart with pie crust and pastry cream

Tart with pie crust and pastry cream – a great summer dessert

June 19, 2017 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

If you’re looking for a simple and delicious recipe to satisfy your sweet tooth on summer days this tart with pie crust and pastry cream is the one. I’ve used two of my basic recipes to assemble this dessert, and then I added some fruits on top. The tart with pie crust and pastry cream…

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Homemade pastry cream – Basic recipes

May 24, 2017 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

I’m starting a new series of post in this blog called “basic recipes”. The name says it all, there will be some basic recipes that are easy to make and you may adapt in thousands of ways. The first one is a sweet one, vanilla pastry cream basic recipe, and some tips and tricks on…

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Filed Under: Fast & Easy, Recipes, Sweet Tagged With: basic recipe, cake, cake filling, easy recipe, easy recipe for pastry cream, eclairs, french cuisine, how to make pastry cream at home, layered cake, pastry, pastry cream, sweet

Red Wine Liquor

Red wine liquor – tradition at its best

February 23, 2017 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

I love learning about traditional recipes and experimenting with them.  They are paths to the past and make me understand and love Albanian culture and culinary even more. Red wine liquor is one of the recipes I’ve had so much fun with, because, you know, it includes wine. It’s practically wine, cooked with sugar and cloves…

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Filed Under: Drinks, Fast & Easy, Recipes, Sweet, Traditional Tagged With: cloves, homemade, how to make, liquor, recipe, red wine, Red Wine Liquor, sweet, wine

Homemade Caramel Sauce

January 23, 2017 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

Caramel is a beige to dark-brown sauce made by heating a variety of sugars with butter and cream. It is the perfect sauce for ice cream, cakes, cheesecakes, as a filling for chocolate cups, or just to eat it straight from the jar with a spoon. It is easy and fun to make and can…

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Pumpkin pie

November 13, 2016 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

Pumpkin pie is one of the most popular autumn dishes. There are many varieties sweet and savory that are traditionally cooked in Albania, but they all require filo dough. Since filo dough is a bit time consuming to make, I prefer going with the western version that is made with pie crust. It is still…

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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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