Lithuanian Cuisine

Cepelinai

Friends often ask what the food was like when I get back from holiday and I always have the same answer. "It was a lot like the food I eat in Canada". How can that be you may wonder? Well, as Megan will tell you, I like chicken fingers and Caesar salad and a few other things but you get the idea. I have had my fill of cheese pizza, chicken with mushrooms, and other very familiar comfort foods for me. Francois and I have a laugh when choosing a restaurant as his parents would always want something "typico", local food made my someone's granny. I say eiwwwww.

Typical Lithuanian dishes include Cepelinai, thick blobs of potato dough stuffed with cheese or meat or mushrooms. I did try these and liked them, what's not to like, they are deep fried and come topped with bacon or mushrooms in a cream sauce! Another artery clogger is sour cream topped kugelis, that is baked grated potatoes and carrots in the oven. Lithuanians also like the less savoury parts of there livestock. Cow tongue is a fav as well as (now this sounds yummy) Alioniu Skilandis, minced meat smoked in pork bladders. Pork snout with pork tail and trotter beans, pigs ears (I feed them to my dog and he hates them).

Needless to say, when I travel I stick to what I know. I am trying to get Francois to try some of the local delicacies, not having much success. Maybe today. Off to Trakai.