Easy and quick milkshake to remember summer. I’m very sad that it ended so quickly. Hope the autumn will be sunny and with lots of dry yellow leaves.

5 strawberries

1 tbsp sugar

100 ml ice cream

100 ml milk

Wash strawberries and mash with sugar. Whisk ice cream and mix with strawberries and milk. Or you can put all products in the blender bowl and turn on the blender for a few seconds

Source: Virtuvės paslaptys 2003 Nr.3

It’s very bad when you don’t write the recipe in the blog after you eat the cake Then you have to look for the recipe for a few days. I baked this cake when we were going to the village and strawberries were still in the season. It had to be all strawberry, but I had no time so I use rhubarbs as they were near me. Rhubarb and strawberry combination isn’t new – it fits perfectly. And the texture of the cake is more like sponge than a teacake. I liked it very much.

(use 26 cm cake pan)

85 g butter, softened

1 1/2 cups flour

1 1/2 tsps baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

1 cup sugar

1 egg

1/2 cup milk

1 tsp vanilla

2 1/2 cups hulled and halved strawberries and/or rhubarbs, cut in chunks

2 tbsps sugar, for sprinkling

Preheat the oven to 170-180°C. Butter a cake pan. Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl. In a separate bowl, use an electric mixer to beat the butter and 1 cup sugar. Mix until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add in egg, milk and vanilla, and mix. Gradually add in the flour mixture. Transfer the mix to your cake pan. Arrange the strawberries and/or rhubarbs as close as you can get them on the top, placing the cut sides down. Sprinkle evenly with 2 tablespoons sugar. Bake 10 minutes, then reduce heat to 160°C and bake about an hour longer, until the toothpick becomes out of the cake clean.

Source: Whisk. Write. Repeat.

Super easy and quick appetizer, if you have some boiled rice leftovers. Even children could prepare it. But also it’s tasty and with freshness

6 cucumbers

3 tbsps boiled rice

100 g smoked ham or sausage

2-3 tbsps mayonnaise

Cut ham into small chunks, mix with rice and mayonnaise. Cut cucumbers in halves and gouge out the pulp. Fill cucumbers with the filling and decorate with greens.

Source: my old magazines or papers archive