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Spinach and strawberry salad

Spinach & strawberry salad

March 26, 2018 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

I am a huge salad fan. They’re easy to make, colorful, tasty, healthy, and you can have so much fun experimenting with them. I try to have salads at lunch and dinner, apart from the main dish, or sometimes transform the salad into a main dish itself by adding grains, beans, seeds and nuts etc….

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Spinach balls

Spinach balls

February 6, 2018 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

I don’t eat meat, since 1 year now, so I’ve experimented with vegetarian balls all the time. I’ve tried them with beans, quinoa, cauliflower, spinach etc. This is a very simple and healthy recipe, which happens to be also one of my favorites. I usually add a yogurt sauce and transform it into a great…

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Baked vegetables quinoa – a great vegan/vegetarian dinner

October 3, 2017 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

Here I am, with another quinoa recipe, super easy, colorful and delicious. This time baked vegetables are simply mixed with quinoa and some seeds and they taste so good. Quinoa and baked vegetables is perfect to make ahead and take with you in a picnic at work or school. It tastes amazing even the day…

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Fruit salad

Colorful fruit salad with honey and poppy seeds

July 25, 2017 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

I’m not sure if the world needs a recipe for fruit salad, but I really enjoy talking about fruits, photo shooting fruits and even more eating them, so why not have a colorful and tasty conversation. I prefer fruit salads over whole fruits because this way you get to eat more types of fruits. When…

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Bulgur summer salad

Bulgur salad – a summer favorite

May 30, 2017 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

Bulgur salad is one of my favourite summer plates, because it is fresh, tasty, colourful and ready in few minutes. I usually prepare bulgur salad in the morning and take it to work. It is full of the best summer ingredients and one of my favourite grains, bulgur. Bulgur is wheat that’s been parboiled, dried,…

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Tomato soup

Tomato soup with poached egg – an amazing summer dish

May 22, 2017 By Mandarina 2 Comments

One of the main things I’ve enjoyed in my new home is meeting so many interesting persons. One of them was Roni, the guy who helped us assemble the new furniture. He was so loud and happy and had tried so many things in life; it was just amazing. When Roni was young he worked…

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Baked potatoes with aioli sauce

Baked potatoes with homemade aioli sauce

May 15, 2017 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

Who doesn’t enjoy some baked potatoes with a nice sauce? Personally, I love it. The smell and taste of baked potatoes is so good while playing with different sauces is so much fun. The trick to preparing the best baked potatoes is to boil them for few minutes. It helps to keep them soft and…

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Black bean burger

Vegetarian black bean burgers

April 27, 2017 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

Black beans are a real treasure. They’re packed with proteins, fibres and minerals, and have a meaty texture which makes them popular in vegetarian dishes. One of my favourite things to cook with black beans is “black bean burgers”. They are packed with spicy flavour and are moist in the inside with a nice crust…

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granola

The basic granola recipe

April 4, 2017 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

I’ve been quite busy this period, so I just needed to relax, even from the kitchen. So I’m not sharing any cookie, cake or comfort meal recipe, but I’m going to the basics, GRANOLA. Granola is basically baked oatmeal flakes with nuts, seeds, and dried fruits. Once you master a basic recipe you may play…

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Sesame crisps

Sesame crisps – a super yummy healthy treat

March 29, 2017 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

I’m always in search of healthy little treats, and this time I had them just in front of my eyes at my office cafeteria, sesame crisps. Isn’t that amazing? As always I needed to create my own version of it. I made some research online and after two weeks of trial and error, I found…

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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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