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.

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500 g any meat, chopped in small chunks

3 eggs

3 tbsps. starch

150 g mayonnaise

salt

garlic

peppers

Mix all ingredients and put in glass bowl (1 liter capacity) and place in the fridge for 10-12 hours to marinate. When ready to bake, take the bowl, mix the mixture and put it with spoon it hot pan with a little bit of oil. Bake as pancakes.

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This cocktail is one of the favourites in our family this summer. It’s so simple and quick that my hubby suggested to do something new for the blog – video. We didn’t thing a lot and just did it 5 minutes of recording and hour or two of video editing. This is the first our video recipe, so we would be glad to hear all comments

(1 glass)

full glass of ice

50 ml balsam “Green Nines” (Lithuanian herbal spirit drink)

100 ml orange juice

straw

orange pig for decoration

Put ice in the glass. Pour “Green Nines” and orange juice. Put straw and decorate with orange juice.

Source: “Green Nines” bottle label

Mexican minced meat and bean chilli. Can be prepared very quickly. We were afraid that beans will blanket out other ingredients, but we were wrong and I am glad about that. We wanted something hot, and we got it

(4 servings)

500 g minced meat

2 onions

2 tbsps oil

2-3 garlic cloves

1 can (400 g) chopped tomatoes

1-1,5 tbsps dried chilli pepper powder or 1-2 hot chilli peppers

1 tsp. oregano

2 cans (400 g each) white beans in tomato sauce

1 red bell pepper

1 green bell pepper

salt

Heat the pan with oil and braise onions with minced meat (if you use fresh chilli peppers, braise them chopped too). Pour tomatoes, seasonings and braise a few minutes. The mix in beans, cut bell peppers, salt to taste and braise 10 minutes more. Serve with rice or French bread.

Source: Lengvi receptai II

Somehow I forget to set my breadmaker to bake the bread or remember only very late in the evening. If there was no bread the next day my hubby would be starving So I had to do something. And have to say that hubby very liked the bread with cheese.

70 g oat or wheat bran

300 g all purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

350 ml buttermilk or natural yoghurt

In a bowl mix bran, flour, baking powder, soda and salt. Pour in buttermilk and mix until you get solid dough. Put a little bit more flour, if needed. Form round loaf and put it on the baking tray lined with baking paper or in the rectangular form pan. With the sharp knife cut the cross on the top of loaf. Bake in 180-200°C preheated oven about 30-40 minutes.

Source: Lengvi receptai I

I know that potatoes doesn’t sound very summery, but it’s quick and only that matters to me now. Just have to mention that I asked my hubby to boil potatoes and eggs while I was at work.

(2-3 servings)

2-3 big potatoes, boiled with skin

30 g bacon

3 boiled eggs

1 celery stalk

1 big onion

Dressing:

65 ml sour cream

65 ml mayonnaise

1/3 tsp salt

dills

Peel potatoes and cut in big chunks. Cut bacon and fry in the pan then put it on the paper towel and let drain. Chop celery stalk, boiled eggs and onion. Put them on potatoes. Mix sour cream, mayo, dills and salt. Pour dressing over salads and mix well. Before serving chill in the refregerator for a few hours (but also it was tasty without chilling ).

Source: Lengvi receptai I

At first when I saw this combination it looked a little bit weird. But then I thought that we all like cauliflowers, cottage cheese and cheese separately, so why not to try it all in one dish. My hubby was very happy He ate really a lot. Children also evaluated this dish very good.

(4 servings)

400 g cauliflower

2 eggs

200 g cottage cheese or curd

50-70 g cheese, grated

salt

Cut cauliflowers into florets, boil, chop and mix with eggs, cheese and strained cottage cheese. Salt to taste, mix very good and pour mixture into buttered heat proof baking dish. Bake about 25 minutes in the preheated till 200°C oven. Sprinkle on top some greens and serve with sour cream.

Source: Moters savaitgalio priedas. Lietuviški valgiai. 2009-03

A few days ago I thought that I baked cookies very long time ago. And my mother mentioned that she liked the cookies that baked with chocolate. And I wanted oat cookies. So when I saw this recipe I decided to make them Because my hubby don’t want to eat sweets, almost all cookies went to my work. And I have to say that I had no cookies to take home

1 cup (230 g) butter, softened

1 cup sugar

2 large eggs

2 tsp vanilla extract

2 cups all purpose flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

2 cups rolled oats

1 1/2 cups rice krispies

200 g chocolate, chopped

3/4 cup shredded coconut

1/2 cup walnuts, chopped

Preheat the oven to 180°C and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Beat in eggs one at a time, followed by vanilla extract. Stir in flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Mix in oats and rice krispies, then stir in chocolate chunks, coconut and walnuts until everything is well-distributed. With the help of teaspoon drop the dough onto prepared baking sheet. Bake for 11-13 minutes, until edges are turning golden brown. Cool for 2-3 minutes on baking sheet, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

Source: Baking Bites