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Cocoa and chia pudding

Cocoa & chia pudding

March 23, 2017 By Mandarina 2 Comments

What’s the first word that comes to your mind when you hear “cocoa pudding”. For me is luscious  Now, what’s the second word that comes to your mind, when you hear “cocoa pudding”? “Hyper-caloric”  Not about this “cocoa chia pudding”. I’ve figured out a way to make it very fast and moreover, it is healthy. I usually…

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Banana and cocoa muffins

February 16, 2017 By Mandarina 8 Comments

Chocolate Banana Muffins are rich, moist, and taste similar to a chocolate cupcake, but luckily they are on the healthier side, containing less sugar and fat. They are healthy enough for breakfast and good enough for dessert! Their biggest fan is my youngest sister, who pushed me to try them in the first place. What…

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Cocoa pasta with caramelised pears and walnuts

September 7, 2016 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

I thought I wasn’t a pasta lover, I mean I liked them a lot, but I wasn’t craving them all the time, or dream about them.  After I tried the fresh made pasta at Luga e Argjendtë, an artisanal pasta shop in Tirana, everything changed. Yes, now I dream about pasta all day. My favorite…

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Filed Under: Fast & Easy, Recipes, Savory, Super healthy Tagged With: artisanal pasta, caramelized pears, cocoa, food revolution, food revolution albania, pasta

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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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Walnut and chocolate chips cookies

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Petulla – Albanian donuts

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Spinach casserole

Chocolate Baklava

Chocolate & walnuts baklava

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Homemade rye bread

Ciabatta

Classic ciabatta

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