Scattered Strawberry Summer

• Fried rye bread with garlic- a beer snack normally, tastes fantastic on its own- that is if you don't mind garlic and  how greasy it is. 
• Cakes, so many cakes- you can go to any grocery shop and you have a great selection of freshly made cakes. I miss it so much, you can't get anything like that in UK.
• Sweets & biscuits- so many varieties!
• Curd snacks
• Smoked cheese with cumin- I can it the whole thing on its own
• Sour Cream Butter- perfect with potatoes
• Wild blueberries- shop bought blueberries  taste nothing like wild blueberries
• White Pizza sauce- in most Pizza places in Lithuania you will be given ketchup and a white/pinkish sauce to go with your pizza. Yes, it's not how Italians eat it but believe me it's delicious.  As far as I remember, the  white sauce is always made in the restaurant and  I am not entirely quite sure what’s in it- mayo, ketchup, garlic yes, but the rest is mystery to me. There are recipes floating around the internet and I ought to try it. I guess it wouldn't go well with an authentic pizza but for your ordinary pizza  that you might get from a shop- perfect. 
• Freshly baked rye bread. There is nothing like it. 

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               Taken during a walk on the South Downs a few days ago.

Lately I've been trying to eat healthier, no more (well almost) shop bought sandwiches for me, I cook myself something for lunch almost every day now & I'm trying to eat more vegetables & fruits. It's a lot easier now when I'm receiving a box of fresh, locally grown, organic vegetables. Every box is different and I never know what I am going to get which I love! I will take a picture of my next box so you can see how amazing it looks.

I've recently acquired "River Cottage Veg Everyday" for a very good price  via a book club that brings books to my workplace (£6.00!!).

I've seen a few episodes when it was on TV although considering it was a series about vegetarian food, he talked about meat & fish way too much but when I saw the book, the pretty pictures & the price tag seduced me.

In the introduction he states "so, to be absolutely clear, all the recipes that follow are suitable for vegetarians". And when the very first recipe contains Parmesan (quite a few recipes throughout a book actually).

Rather disappointing but I guess it's because it is written by a carnivore for other carnivores who interested in eating more vegetarian food, but it's not an excuse,especially because of the sentence I quoted, they should have done their research better.


On more positive note, the book is quite inspiring, beautifully illustrated. I put sticky notes on all the pages of the recipes I want to try and it's quite a few. The first one I tried was very simple leek and cheese toastie, it didn't disappoint me, rather nice and I think it will be something I will make quite regularly from now on.

Not sure if I will ever try a pizza with beetroot though.

As I'm getting organic & local veg delivered, this book will be quite useful as every box delivered contains different veg, some of which not only have never eaten, I don't even know how they are called. I was flicking through the book and actually recognised one of the vegetables in this book. Educational!

I need to start preparing lunches rather than eating shop-bought sandwiches (such a waste of money but I'm lazy, so lazy), I hope I'll find something suitable in the book.