Smoked Mackerel with Capers on Wholemeal Toast
An easy and delicious dish with smoked mackerel is simple to make and can be prepared on a weekend for a busy week ahead. Just serve it with toast and a hint of truffle butter to hit all those taste…
Chocolate Truffles with Hazelnuts and Clementines
These lovely, luxurious chocolate truffles with hazelnuts are the perfect edible Christmas gift for your loved ones (or a nice treat for yourself). It is very easy to make them, they require just a handful of ingredients and you end…
Side Dishes for your Christmas Eve Dinner
These tasty and easy side dishes are perfect for your Christmas Eve menu. With just a handful of ingredients, you can create a series of delicious side dishes. I can’t believe that Christmas Eve is tomorrow! I feel like my…
Soft Coconut Cookies with Clementines
These lovely, fluffy cookies with clementines are the perfect reminder of upcoming holidays. Beautiful fruity fragrance combined with coconut flavour makes for a winning combination. Easy to make and they require just a handful of ingredients – so what are…
Sweet and Sour Chicken with Sesame Seeds
Homemade, gluten free, sweet and sour chicken with crunchy and salty vegetables is a delicious choice for a weekday dinner. It’s easy to make this dish and it will take you less than 30 minutes with a handful of pantry…
Rich Chocolate Cake with Orange Cream and Chocolate Pudding
This rich, indulgent and scrumptious chocolate cake is the perfect dessert. Intense chocolate taste with very moist sponge, combined with a rich citrus cream. Perfect as an afternoon tea break. It’s not a secret that in my house I have…
Baked Pasta with Chicken and Tomato Sauce
This rich, flavoursome dish is to die for. The sweetness from tomatoes and sharp zingy flavour from lemons, combined together with silky chicken create the perfect balance. This could be an amazing Saturday night feast or a lovely dish for…
Roasted Pumpkin Soup with Creamy Coconut and Seeds
Autumn without a pumpkin is simply not real autumn. This soup is everything you need during gloomy and rainy weekday evenings. It’s creamy, sweet and a little bit spicy all at the same time. Serve it with toasted pumpkin seeds…
Curd Pancakes with Nuts and Mascarpone Cheese
Delicious and easy to make – curd pancakes can be an amazing weekend treat or scrumptious dinner after a long working day. The duo of curd and nuts is highly beneficial and provides your body with plenty of protein and…
Pork Chops with Roasted Plums, Walnuts and Sage
Tender pork chops with sage butter that melt in your mouth. Accompanied by sweet and juicy plums, together with slightly bitter walnut, this dish creates an amazing flavour harmony. It can be an amazing dinner for a gloomy October evening…
Gluten-Free Banana Bread Fluffy Cookies with Nuts
These fluffy, soft, gluten-free banana cookies are perfect for a busy morning or can be a healthy afternoon snack with a cup of tea. They are super moist, low in added sugar and high in flavour. The internet is full…
Baked Figs with Mascarpone Cheese and Rum Sauce
This simple and vibrant dessert is easy to make. It takes just 20 minutes and you have an indulgent, fragrant, Middle Eastern inspired fig dessert with creamy mascarpone cheese on the side. Serve it as a sweet snack or as…
Baked Sweet Potatoes with Beans and Aioli Sauce
Like a true Lithuanian, potatoes are an integral part of my diet. Those fluffy, soft and creamy spheres of goodness are essential in my country’s culture. We have so many variations of potato dishes, it’s crazy. We boil, fry, chop,…
Oven-Baked Omelette with Peas and Tomatoes
Mornings can be so stressful. Especially if you are not a morning person. Getting up early and making yourself a delicious breakfast is sometimes a difficult task. This is one of the reasons why most of us end up with…
Veggie Lasagne with Cabbage and Peas
I’ve always admired Italian cuisine and lasagne was the first dish I learnt by heart. I am not even sure why I chose to make this dish in the first place. I first rustled-up an Italian meal 18 years ago,…
Chocolate Swiss Roll with Cherry Jam and Chocolate Ganache
Back in Lithuania, when I was just a kid, a swiss roll wasn’t a big deal. We could buy them pre-packed in a very colourful box, but the taste was awful! They were full of artificial flavours and loads of…
Healthier English Breakfast with Oven Baked Hash Browns and Eggs
Breakfast is often described as the most important meal of the day. It dictates the rest of our day and gives us the necessary sustenance and energy to get up and go. For more than 20 years, I skipped this…
Spaghetti with Harissa and Roasted Peppers
When I think about humble, hearty and delicious food – Italian cuisine immediately pops into my mind. People from this country knows how to make simple pasta taste spectacular. Recipes are very simple (most of the time), and with just…
Galette with Almond Cream and Strawberries
I love summer! I love that wonderful sunshine on my skin! I love that amazing feeling of freedom! Summer makes me feel differently, it makes me feel my life. I know that might sound quite poetic or idealistic, but this…
Falafels with Almond Crust and Pomegranate Salad
I need to confess, I discovered falafels just 3 years ago, after I moved to London. Until then I wasn’t excited about this dish and thought that the combination of flavours was a little bit odd for my liking. I…
Ravioli with Spinach and Peas
I am in love with pasta! I remember when, eight years ago, I went to Milan for the first time. I sat in a small piazza and I ordered my very first Italian spaghetti with tomato sauce. For the rest…
Pork Medallions with Veggie Gravy
I think, the easiest way to make my man very happy is to cook a steak, serve it with the fries and end this dinner with the chocolate cake. If you have a similar eater at your house, you know…
Fluffy Carrot Pancakes
I remember myself as a kid on Sunday mornings waking up because of the noise in our kitchen. I could hear playing music on a radio, turned on hand mixer and my parents laugh. This could mean the only thing…
Triple Chocolate Gooey Cookies
I have to admit that I am not a fan of cookies. I don’t like that snap which everyone is looking for. I like my cookies very soft and they remind me small cakes. This is one of the reasons…
Naminiai kebabai
Tikriausiai jau daugeliui tampa tikru iššūkiu klausimas „ką gaminti šiandien?“. Šiomis dienomis mano tikru išsigelbėjimu tapo fakeaways patiekalai arba kitaip sakant, mano bandymai atkartoti greito maisto restoranų menu. Šiandien improvizavau kebabus ir galiu pasakyt, jog skonis pranoko lūkesčius. Man, labai…