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Raspberry crumble

Raspberry crumble

June 24, 2019 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

Fruit crumbles are so good, light with an intense fruit flavor, and so forgiving. You can endlessly play with them, try different fruits, grains, sweeteners, nuts and spices. I like to use honey, instead of sugar, especially with winter fruits. I play with flavors, vanilla, cinnamon, cardamom, rose water, you name it šŸ™‚ this time…

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Filed Under: Fast & Easy, Recipes, Sweet Tagged With: berry crumble, crumble, fruit crumble, fruit dessert, how to make delicious crumble, light dessert, Raspberry crumble, summer crumble, summer dessert

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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Filed Under: Other Tagged With: albania, albanian, missing albania

Macarons

Macarons- a story of love and persistence

May 12, 2019 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

I’ve talked about my struggle to make macarons so many times šŸ™ˆ They were my mission impossible until few weeks ago, when my babies decided to raise on their own feet, nice & cute. When I shared my struggles on Instagram and asked for help, my inbox went crazy and my heart was full of…

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Filed Under: Collaborations, Recipes, Sweet Tagged With: chocolate macarons, french macarons, how to make macarons, Macarons, rose macarons, tahini macarons

Albanian honey cake

Albanian honey cake

May 4, 2019 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

I guess when we miss traditional food, it’s not only the food we’re craving but also that feeling of wanting to relive some moments, memories, flavors. That’s exactly what happens to me whenever I crave this Albanian honey cake. I used to love it when I was a child, and I was looking forward to…

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Filed Under: Recipes, Sweet, Traditional Tagged With: easy recipe, honey cake, honey cake recipe, how to make honey cake at home, receta, Shendetllie, si te pergatisim shendetllie

Focaccia

Classic focaccia

April 29, 2019 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

Playing with dough is my favorite game for the moment. I’m trying to understand bread and the magic behind it and I’m loving every moment of this journey. This focaccia bread was one of my last bakes, and disappeared in few minutes. It’s so easy, yet sooo good. You can enjoy it as a snack…

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Filed Under: Recipes, Savory, Traditional Tagged With: Focaccia, Focaccia Bread, Focaccia Sandwich, How to make focaccia at home, Ligurian Focaccia

Easter bread

Easter bread – Tsoureki

April 23, 2019 By Mandarina 2 Comments

It’s that time of the year when making this pillowy sweet bread is mandatory, it’s Easter time. Easter bread is one of my first bakes ever and one of my first Instagram photos. I still remember all the research that I made, all the dough testing and spice hunting and the aromas filling my kitchen….

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Filed Under: Recipes, Sweet, Traditional Tagged With: buke pashke, curek, easter bread, how to make Easter bread, Si te bejme cyrek, Tsoureki

Classic tiramisu

Authentic Italian tiramisu

March 30, 2019 By Mandarina 2 Comments

Does the world need another tiramisu recipe? Of course not šŸ˜‚but I couldn’t resist adding this beauty in the blog, and can’t stop making it over and over again. It’s so simple, yet so rich and wholesome, fresh and light, but with an earthy and warm flavor, both winning combos. I love to make it…

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Filed Under: Fast & Easy, Sweet Tagged With: classic tiramisu, how to make tiramisu, italian dessert, italian recipe, making tiramisu at home, No-bake desserts, Tiramisu, tiramisu recipe

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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Filed Under: Other Tagged With: dinner at Noma, eating at Noma, Noma, Noma Copenhagen, Noma restaurant

Vegetarian paella

Vegetarian paella

February 19, 2019 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

Few weeks ago, I was having lunch with some Spanish friends. They prepared paella, and explained to me all the basis, on how to easily make it at home. Couldn’t wait to make it myself, so I run to the kitchen the next day and prepared this delicious paella packed with lots of vegetables and…

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Filed Under: Fast & Easy, Recipes, Savory, Super healthy Tagged With: Authentic paella recipe, Easy paella recipe, how to make paella at home, paella, vegan paella, vegetarian paella

Chocolate cake

Chocolate cake, to die for šŸ˜‹

February 13, 2019 By Mandarina 2 Comments

Let’s talk about cake šŸ˜, chocolate cake to be more specific. I developed this one layer cake for my Kazakh friend’s birthday. She loves everything chocolaty so it had do be all chocolate.Ā  When all my colleagues were asking for the recipe, I felt sth was right and needed to remake it and post on…

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Filed Under: Recipes, Sweet Tagged With: birthday cake, chocolate cake, chocolate ganache, chocolate recipes, chocolate spread, easy chocolate cake, how to make chocolate cake at home

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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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