Pyragas su persikais

Vienas skaniausių mano kažkada ragautų pyragų su persikais! Kepiau du kartus, abu išėjo tobulai. Pastangų taip pat didelių nereikia, tad net tik pradėję suktis virtuvėj sugebės šį pyragą iškept. :)

• Reikės: 

1. Konservuotų persikų 
2. Varškės ~300g
3. Kepimo miltelių
4. Sviesto 200g
5. Stiklinės cukraus
6. 2 kiaušinių
7. Vanilinio cukraus
8. Migdolo puselių papuošimui

• Eiga:

1. Ištrinti sviestą su puse stiklinės cukraus. Įmušti kiaušinių baltymus, suberti kepimo miltelius ir maišyti vėl. 
2. Galiausiai sudėti miltus. Labai gerai išmaišyti, suminkyti į didelį gumulą, suvynioti į celofaną ir dėti į šaldymo kamerą.
3. Suplakti likusius baltymus su puse stiklinės cukraus iki standžių putų. Į masę sudėti varškę bei vanilinį cukrų. Gerai išmaišyti.
4. Pasiruošti vidutinio dydžio skardą, ją iškloti sviestiniu popieriumi. Su išimta iš šaldymo kameros tešla iškloti visą skardos dugną ir pakelti šiek tiek kraštus. 
5. Šitaip išklotą skardą įdėti į 180C įkaitintą orkaitę keletai minučių. Tada ant viršaus dėti varškės mišinį. Vėl palaikyti orkaitėje apie 10min.
6. Praėjus laikui išdėlioti plonai supjaustytus persikus eilutėmis ir užbarstyti ant viršaus migdolais.
7. Viską kepti dar apie pusvalandį arba kol bus šonai gražiai parudę. 

Skanaus, S.

Kiniška vištiena

Labai lengvai paruošiama ir neprotiškai skani.

• Vištienai reikės:

1. Vištienos filė ( aš naudojau du nedidelius filiukus)
2. Vištienos ar bet kokių kitų prieskonių
3. Krakmolo ( geriau kukurūzų, bet aš naudojau bulvių)
4. Kiaušinio baltymo
5. Aliejaus kepimui

•  Padažui :

1. Sojos padažo ( ~2-3 valgomieji šaukštai)
2. 2 valgomieji šaukštai medaus
3. Cukraus taip pat 2-3 šaukštai (jei medus dirbtinas - jo nebereikia)
4. Apelsino/citrinos sulčių
5. Ryžių acto
6. Sezamo sėklų ( kepintų )

• Eiga:

1. Suprieskoniuojam gabaliukais supjaustytą vištieną. Išplakame baltymus ir pasiruošiam krakmolą.
2. Voliojam vištieną baltyme , tada krakmole. Dedam į įkaitiną aliejų ir kepam kol šiek tiek paruduos. Iškepus nusausiname ant popierinių rankšluosčių.
3. Imamės padažo gamybos. Ištirpiname medų keptuvėje, dedame cukraus ir leidžiam pakaisti kol pradeda darytis burbuliukai.
4. Pilame sojų padažą ir actą. Leidžiam dar truputėlį "pavirti". 
5. Galiausiai užspaudžiam apelsino/citrinos sulčių, sudedame sezamo sėklas.
6. Sudedame vištieną į padažą, paverdame dar truputį ir tiekiame kartu su ryžiais.

P.S. Man labai trūko kažkokio žalumyno, tai pasidariau salotų iš tarkuoto agurko,morkos bei salotų lapų.Užpyliau sojų padažu, alyvuogių aliejumi ir ryžiu actu.

Skanaus, S.

Tuna salad

 My favorite tuna salad.

• What you'll need:

1. A can of tuna
2. A can of corn
3. Spring onions
4. Lemon juice
5. Salt and pepper

Apple crumble

My one and only apple crumble! Simple, but yet sooo delicious! Especially with vanilla ice cream!




What you'll need :

• For the crumble

1. 3-4tbl sp flour
2. half a cup sugar
3. 2-3tbl sp butter
4. 1tsp cinnamon

• For the filling:

1. 2 -3 big apples ( peeled and cut into small chunks)
2. 2-3 tbl sp sugar
3. 1tbl sp water
4. 1tbl sp butter

• Now on to the making:

1. Preheat the oven to 180C.
2. Place the flour,cinnamon and sugar in a large bowl and mix well. Taking a few cubes of butter at a time rub into the flour mixture. Keep rubbing until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. ( You can also do this with two knifes, but for me, doing it with fingers is much faster)
3. Place the apples in a small pot. Add the butter, water and sugar. "Boil" this mixture until the fruit is soft.
4. Pour the fruit in to a baking pan and add the crumbles on top. ( I add a dash of bread crumbs also. Just so the crumble would look crunchy and brown on top)
   
5. Bake the crumble for about an hour.
   
6. Serve with ice cream or whipped cream.

I hope you enjoyed.

S.

Sushi (bonus - tempura)

I looove sushi! It's so easy to make and so delicious.. It's literally my guilty pleasure! haha I made three "kinds" of sushi : tempura sushi,with salmon and with salmon and crab meat.

• What you will need for rice:

• Sushi rice (for 1cup you'll need 1,5cups water)
• 2-3 tlb sp. rice vinegar
• a pinch of salt
• 1-2 tbl s
• p. sugar

1. Wash your rice. Repeat this step until your the water is clear.
2. Put the rice into colander and let it stay for about 30 minutes.
3. After that take a pot,pour the rice in it. Boil the rice for 8minutes, after that turn off the heat and keep it under the cover for 10 minutes more.
4. While rice are boiling let's prepare the rice vinegar. Put the vinegar,salt and sugar into a small pot or pan and heat the vinegar until salt and sugar will disolve.
5. When the rice are done ,pour the vinegar on top and mix well. Leave it to cool for a couple of minutes.

• What you'll need for sushi making:

• Sea weed sheets
  
• Salted salmon
  
• Crab meat or crab sticks
• Mayonnaise
• Avocado
  
• Peeled cucumber
• Sesame seads

1. Cut all your ingriedients into even chunks.
2. My sesame seads were not cooked, so i cooked them in a pan for a few minutes or until golden brown.
3. Mix crab meat with mayonnaise.
4. Take your sea weed sheets add rice in an even layer.
5. Put your ingridients on top and roll it up.

• Now for the fun part! For tempura you' ll need:

• 2 tbl sp flour
• half of a cup water ( you need your water to be extremely cold )
  
• 1 egg
• vegetable oil
  

1. Now mix all ingridients together and "dip" your rolls in the mixture. After that put them in hot olive oil and bake until nice and crunchy.

That's it.
S.
:)

Rice with chicken

Well hello there! :) It's been quite a while from my last post and i have no explanation, but i promise to make it up for you! :) So todays recipe will be one of my favorites - rice with chicken "sauce".
What you'll need:

• Chicken breast
• Heavy cream
• Rice
• Salt, pepper
• Olive oil
• 1 tbl sp flour

On to the cooking !

1. Prepare your chicken. Cut it in small pieces. Sprinkle some salt and pepper.
2. Heat your pan with a dash of olive oil and cook the chicken for a few minutes.
3. Boil your rice as usual.
4. When the chicken is ready,pour the heavy cream ( pour as much as you like,because the heavy cream will be the sauce ) , add some salt and pepper. And let it come up to a boil. After that add your flour and let it boil again.
5. You're done. Just pour the sauce onto the rice and your dinner is ready :) Super simple, but soo delicious! :)

Good luck,

S.

A sneak peak to my nail polish collection and my storage tip!

There is one thing that i love almost more than clothes and make up. And it's NAIL POLISHES! I love that feeling when i come home with a new bottle of polish! Testing it, painting on nails, doing nail arts.. This "ritual" calms me down. haha
Since i love them so much and i have quite a bit, i just had to think about a new way of storing them. So i came up with an idea to keep them in a cute box, so they won't dry out as quickly as they would if i just kept them in a drawer. Of course, i didn't wanted to buy a box, which where i live costs more then it should, so i decided to make my own. Well, i mean, not to make my own, but just decorate it the way i wanted. I took a simple shoe box and decorated it with some wrapping paper and here you have it. :) Oh also! By keeping your nail polishes like this you may forget or not see which nail polish is which, so i put a mall dot of polish on each cap.

Oven roasted potatoes

As i promised my oven baked potatoes! Perfect with meat or fish, or even with vegetables. As all my recipes- super simple to make and doesn't take much time.
What you need:

• potatoes ( of course )
• olive oil
• salt
• pepper
• ground cumin
• mild paprika
• chilli powder

Course:

1. Cut the potatoes into wedges (without peeling them). Boil the potatoes in boiling water for a couple of minutes. Only until they will soften a bit.
2. Drain the potatoes and let them sit for 2-3minutes. After that dredge them with olive oil and all the spices.
   
3. Place your potatoes on a baking tin lined with alluminium foil and bake them for about 30 minutes. They should look something like this:
4. DONE! I ate them with this steak , but you can eat them alone with a cucumber dip and if you're interested in this dip , i'll write a blog post about it.

Bye for now.
Skaiste, x

What's in my bag!

So I know that all my previous posts were about cooking, but since i love "beauty stuff" so much ,
i decided to combine all of them in this blog. I hope you won't mind. haha. And i thought thatd the best way to start my beauty posts would be with what's in my bag! I had this bag for more than two years and i'm so sad that everyday it's looking worse and worse.. :(
My bag:

What's inside:

Steak with onions and cheese ( Karališkas kepsnys )

My favorite steak for lunch. It is quick and easy, and everybody can do it. :) You can do it with only a few ingridients, that you probably have already in your fridge. So now onto the ingridients:

• Some kind of meat ( i used pork )
• cheese
• onions
• mayonnaise
• garlic
• salt and pepper

So first of all:

1. Marinate your beaten steaks with salt, pepper and chopped garlic.
2. Chop the onions and place them on the marinated stake like so:
3. After step 2. grate the cheese and sprinkle it on top of the onions.
4. Add the mayonnaise and sprinkle some pepper on top:
5. Heat your oven up to 180C and bake these steaks for about an hour, depending on how thick or wide they are .

I served these steaks with some oven baked potatoes ( which will be in my new blog post !) and cucumber. I hope you liked it!

Skaiste, x

Salad with a delicious sauce

This is my go to salad recipe on evenings,when i feel that i need something with low fat and tasty to finish off my day. It requires only a few ingredients and is so easy to put together. So let's get started!

What you'll need:

• peking cabbage
• 2-3 radishes
• 1 tomato
• 1 red onion
• cheddar cheese
• white bread
• olive oil
• an orange
• 2 tsp english mustard
  

Now on to making the salad:

1. Chop all the ingridients.
2. Pan-fry the bread until golden brown ( as always :] )
3. Zest an orange. Squeeze orange juice into a small cup, pour the olive oil, add english custard and a pinch of salt. Mix until the sauce is well combined.
   
4. Put all the ingridients on the plate ,pour the sauce over it and grate some cheddar cheeze as a final touch.

Delicious, yet simple meal for late or lazy evenings. I hope you like it and bon appetit!
Skaiste, x

My healthy breakfast ( Mano sveikuoliški pusryčiai )

My simple,delicious and easy healthy breakfast for days when i want something that would not require a lot of work. As i said this is super simple "recipe" and you'll need only TWO ingridients!
You'll need:

• A yogurt of your choice ( i used strawberry yogurt )
• dried fruits and seeds

1. Mix your yogurt with seeds and fruits. DONE!
   

I know, it's not even a recipe, but i thought that maybe it would be helpful for someone who is looking for healthy breakfast. And if not, chek out my Sunday pancakes recipe!

Skaiste, x

Sunday morning pancakes (Sekmadienio blyneliai)

The best pancakes for lazzy sunday mornings! I really liked these pancakes, even though this is my third time trying them, they turned out perfect! Great for everyone!
For these pancakes you will need:

• 2 cups flour
• 1 cup sugar ( i used half a cup)
• 1 tsp baking soda
  
• 1 tsp baking powder
• a pinch of salt

• 1 egg
• 2 cups clabber or kefir
• 4 tbl sp. oil

Course:

1. In two different bowls mix all the dried ingridients and all "fluid" ingridient.
2. When mixing 1. is done pour everything in one bowl and mix well again.
3. Put your pan on low heat ( without any oil!!! ) and bake the pancakes on both sides for about 1 minute or until golden brown .

And you're done! Now you can enjoy your easy , but yet delicious breakfast. I hope you liked this recipe! Let me know how your pancakes turned out!

Skaiste, x

Potato bake (Bulvių apkepas)

Great meal for someone who doesn't have much time, but wants to eat something that is filling and delicious!

What you will need:

• 5-6 potatoes ( i used small ones, because i ate alone, but i still had some leftovers!)
• 2 eggs
• 2 tbl sp. melted butter
• 2-3 tbl sp. sour cream
• ham/sausages or any kind of meat ( you can skip it )
• salt and pepper
  
• spring onions or regular onions ( i used both )
  
• dried dill
• two garlic cloves
  

When you have all the ingriedients prepared, grab a bowl and:

1. Grate all potatoes.
2. Chop the onions,garlic and sausages.
3. Beat the eggs with sour cream and a pinch of salt.
4. Mix grated potatos, sausages, onions, garlic and all the spices in a bowl. Add melted butter and mix again well.
5. Heat your oven up to 180C.
6. Spread the potatoes in a baking pan and add egg mixture on top.
   
7. For crunchyness sprinkle some pulled bread and put your bake in the oven. Bake it for about 30minutes or until golden brown on top!

So that's it for my potatoes bake! Let me know if you tried it.

Skaiste, x


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Curd pie with black currants (Varškės pyragas su serbentais)

This is my first time trying this AMAZING pie, but it won't be the last.
What you'll need for curd:

• 1 tbl sp. sour cream
• 200g curd
• 5 tbl sp. sugar
• 1tsp. vanilla sugar
• 1 egg
• black currant preserve

What you'll need for pie crust:

• 70g butter
• 6-8 tbl sp. flour
• 2 tbl sp. sugar
• 1 egg yolk
• 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tbl sp. water

Course:

1. In a bowl mix all ingridients for the pie crust and crumble the dough between your fingers, until you will get lots of crumbles. Then put your crumbles in the fridge for atleast half an hour.
   
2. Mix curd with sour cream, sugar and one egg, until the texture is nice and solid.
3. Heat your oven up to 180C.
4. Put almost all your crumbles to the baking pan and spread them. Then press them to the pan until you'll get an even "base" for the curd. Bake this "base" for 15minutes.
   
5. After baking the crust for 15min. take it out and let it cool for a couple of minutes. Pour the curd mixture on to the crust and bake it for about an hour.
6. When the pie is almost done take it out of the oven, spread the black currant preserve on top and put it back to the oven for 10-15 minutes. And the pie is done!

I hope you'll enjoy this pie as much as i did!

Skaiste, x