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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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Mushroom risotto

Mushroom risotto – the perfect comfort food

March 27, 2017 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

Mushroom risotto is one of my favorite comfort foods. The combination of creamy risotto with mushrooms has some kind of magic in it. It complements very well grilled meats and chicken but stands perfectly also on its own. As every type of risotto, it is a labor of love. Cook it with love and with…

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Green goodness- my favourite guacamole 

February 27, 2017 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

As soon as I hear the word “avocado”, I can speak for hours on how healthy, tasty, beautiful it is and in many ways of using it. My favorite ever avocado recipe is this guacamole with pistachio. I can have it for breakfast on toasted integral bread, for lunch as a side dish to chicken…

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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

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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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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Spinach, mint and pistachio pesto

December 2, 2016 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

I’ve told you how much I love pesto and how easy is to make it at home. I always make big batches and keep it in the fridge for months. But the basil season is over, and I finished my pesto stock too early this year, so I had to come up with a new…

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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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Blondies – the heart winner dessert

September 28, 2016 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

Blondies is the ultimate irresistible dessert. I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t like it. Looks like the combination of walnuts with vanilla and white chocolate wins the hearts of all. I’ve tried several blondies recipes before, but the one from Food52 is the winner. I’ve made very few changes to the original recipe, which better satisfy…

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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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