I like these dishes as well as Virtiniai with cherries. Herrings with onion and rye-bread are popular everywhere.
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Potato nation, lol, by the way is Napoleon a Lithuanian invention?
Fried vegetables.
As for kvass, a good duonos gira should be thick and have this color:
http://www.neringa-blogas.com/wp-con...7/DSC_2235.JPG
The one in the photo previously posted in this thread is way too dark, it cannot possibly be natural - they've probably put some burned sugar in it to make it like that.
Anyway, as far as I'm concerned, nothing beats these:
Kastinys (a thick garlic-butter-sourcream dip) with kanapienė (hemp seed topping)
http://ausrra.blogspot.com/2010/03/z...-kanapyne.html
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_dBd29qbb_kE/S6...s640/Ausra.jpg
^^coupled with oven baked potatoes or rye bread with sunflower seeds :thumb001:
http://www.mamosreceptai.lt/recipe-i...uona-1212.jpeg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_V8h08pCfWn...97+duona+3.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_V8h08pCfWn...97+duona+2.jpg
But my mother is from Aukštaitija, so while growing up our "daily bread" was pancakes (lietiniai)
http://www.mildlandija.lt/wp-content...02/blynai5.jpg
they're eaten either with sweet curd and/or fruit jam toppings/fillings
http://virtuve.seima.org/wp-content/...-lietiniai.jpg
http://www.neringa-blogas.com/wp-con...46-600x450.jpg
..or savory fillings like: mushrooms, fried vegetables or meat
http://www.mamosreceptai.lt/recipe-i...kais-9789.jpeg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fjC2hFypND...4%25AFdaru.jpg
Sometimes the pancakes are boiled instead of fried, in which case they're called skryliai
http://kasuvalgyti.lt/wp-content/upl...MGP2656_11.jpg
the sweet version:
http://forellesreceptai.lt/wp-conten...63-534x356.jpg
Sometimes they're fried with chopped apples added to the dough:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5UEL01wJgn...+obuoliais.jpg
or as a filling:
http://www.mamosreceptai.lt/recipe-i...daru-7506.jpeg
The usual thing for breakfast is some sort of a porridge, oat flake & buckwheat are, I think, most common :
http://files.lsveikata.lt/system_pre...41/grikiai.jpg
http://gs.delfi.lt/images/pix/file26...d20ded11d5.jpg