I was born and raised in Lithuania and I am proud of my heritage!   My country has a rich gastronomic heritage and each region has its own and unique speciality dishes.  However, today I wish to showcase to the people in UK some recipes made with traditional staple from my country- beautiful Rye bread.  Traditional
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Hello everyone, Well, I have not written (but trust me I’ve done heaps of other writing) a blog for a fair while now…lazy Ugne! So, I had a wee spare moment and I thought it best to give a bit of insight as to what I have been upto of late and what is forthcoming
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No Soggy Bottoms Here! Ugne Bakes with Bertazonni and Rangecookers.co.uk Having recently just signed my first book deal, I was desperate to begin recipe development and test-baking. In order to ensure my test bakes would be as accurate as possible, the performance of my oven was essential and even though I had a reasonable oven
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Dear All, “And now, the end is near; and so I face the final curtain. My friend, I’ll say it clear, I’ll state my case, of which I’m certain. I’ve lived a featherweight’s full.. I’ve travelled each and every highway; and more, much more than this, I did it my way…” Those are the opening lyrics to the
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Good Afternoon, I hope you all are well!? Been a busy day so far…this morning we did some test shots with my Photographer, the very talented Evelina Raguckiene for my forthcoming Book to be published in 2016. Evelina is a great photographer and I am rather excited to be working with her on this project
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Recap of Another Week in the Tent This week was pastry week on GBBO and having gone home last week it was my objective to keep up with each episode as we go on and to share my thoughts and ideas with you all.  I love making pastry and I felt that I had a
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Good evening, On Wednesday evening I bid an emotional farewell to the GBBO Tent. I had an absolute disastrous spell that day and felt like the world was caving in on me, it was well and truly one of those days in The Tent where It would’ve just been better to have stayed in bed
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Good evening all, First of all I would like to say a big, heartfelt thank you for all the support, love and well wishes from each and every person whom have supported me during my 5 weeks in The Tent.  Apologies for those whom may feel let down by my departure – I gave it
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Episode 4, Dessert Week I trust you all enjoyed Dessert week as much as I did – wait, I love desserts full stop!    Last night you saw us making Crème Brulees as signature, Spanische Windetorte (don’t ask as I’m still going WHAT WAS THAT? And judging by PH’s reaction to Mary B he is still
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 Bread Week Morning All, Just though I’d give you a few thoughts of my own on last night’s episode (episode 3) of GBBO – Bread week. The remit this week started with making a ‘Quick Bread’.   The quick bread method has an interesting history and originated in the United States.  Chemically produced carbon dioxide was
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Long, busy, emotional & tiresome day. I really did not expect my training regime would turn me into a ‘pro bodybuilder’with a bodybuilding career overnight hehe having not put a foot on a stage yet..anyway got to laugh that one off! Just wanted to thank everyone who has been supporting me. A special word of
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I guess you all are in the know of the past events in my life from the todays newspapers. I have been going through the articles today, good memories comin back looking at the pictures  🙂 … All GBBO bakers loolks great! Have a browse, and please, do not believe everything they say 😉   http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-07-28/the-great-british-bake-off-2015-meet-the-bakers
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Busy week it was. I would like to apologise for those lovely people who are following me that I’m not here as often as I would like to. I promise I will be back, and catch up on my recipe additions and general communication. Please be patient. Thanks. Ugne x

Hi All, So here we are… I guess that you are all just as excited as I am seeing that tomorrow evening the Great British Bake off returns to BBC 1 at 8pm, with the difference that this year I am a participant and not just watching, and sharing the GBBO Bakers’ journeys! Quick run 
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Episode 1, Cake Week Good morning All, So it’s the morning after the night before – what a strange feeling it was to see myself on the bake-off where in previous years I would have been a keen fan and an arm-chair baker; truly surreal! Where do I start, the signature bake was the Madeira
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Episode 2, Biscuit week Hello All, So last night we experienced ‘Biscuit Week’ on GBBO.  What may have sounded an ‘easy’ish’ week turned out very challenging.  This week saw the signature bake being Biscotti, which are also known as “Cantuccini” and mean twice baked and originated in Prato (Italy).  AS flavouring for my Biscotti, I
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