Apple cheese is basically a very dense apple jam. Requires lots of apples of sorts with high percentage of Pectin, and very long to cook on a small fire continuously stirring with the spoon. Simple but time-consuming technology. After pressing out the remnant liquid in a cheese cloth, it is left to dry for about a month, or even more. Never had a passion to wait that long😁.
About christmas fairs in Vilnius. There is no one big market, but there are more separate fairs going on all arround the city :) and in all of them you can find interesting lithuanian handmade stuff But I think they are smaller than before covid.
oh my gosh! thought I was following someone who was sharing Baja with us only to find your net is cast very wide and very deep! You have risen to the top of my reading/listening/watching pile because of how in love you are with our world! I love it too. thank you so much for the professional attention that you give your videos.
Thank you, Laura for one more of your amazing videos. They make so many people happy to watch and maybe make them happy in general. Maybe this is the mission that you did not (yet) to realise you fulfill here, in this country. Thank you, love it to bits! Ačiū tau! 🥰
Hello Laura :) very beautiful final video before Christmas and New Year celebrations , Vilnius looks very gorgeous while having wonderful Christmas tree , amazing shopping markets , it's great to see that you're very happy while travelling everytime to Vilnius :) i wish you wonderful , warm and full of magic Christmas and amazing New Year , can't wait to see your new videos at the beggining of the next year , have a great time during winter holidays , take care bye :)
Hey, apple cheese is not exclusively a Christmas treat :) On Christmas Eve we do not eat meat, but, I think, dairy is ok. Regarding Christmas Eve, we have a tradition to have 12 different dishes on the table - representing 12 Apostles (Christian interpretation) or 12 months of the year (pagan interpretation as pagans also had similar holiday on that day). Dishes usually include fish, boiled potatoes with linseeds, various vegetable medleys(or what we call "mišrainė"), pastries (usually with mushrooms), little pastry "bites" - "kūčiukai" (this is a must during Christmas), tangerines, nuts, dried fruits, a thick sweet drink "kisielius", etc. Also, many families leave an empty plate and a glass on a table for our ancestors (I bet this also comes from pagan times).
We don't eat dairy, meat or alcohol at our home during Christmas eve. So no salads with mayonnaise. I think it depends on region and family traditions. But Kūčios is the best evening for me, one of the reasons is different food. Linksmų švenčių!
Dairy is definitely not okay. No meat, dairy and eggs. Just fish, mushroom, vegetable and some egg and dairy free sweet dishes. Only wine is allowed for alcoholic drinks, but just a little amount.
I am interested in how the media & the people in Lithuania feel about the reported ‘tense situation regarding Lithuania, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, etc. I love your channel.
Just discovered your channel 😊 your content and the way you talk about the things places you see is just craving my need to visit those places… love to u from Germany 🇩🇪
If you like dumplings, there is a little town not far from Utena named Kavarskas that has a tiny little restaurant called Kavarsko koldūnai that has wonderful dumplings. It's worth a trip! Maybe make it a trip if you want to see the horse museum in Anykščiai, which is not far away.
Merry Christmas to you too, Dear Laura! So lucky to have you here in our country. I wish that the future would bring you even more joy and happiness here in LT and everywhere else in the world wherever and whenever your life takes you. I too hope one day to bump into you on Vilnius streets and give you a huge hug, if you of course don't mind. Merry Christmas once again and thank you for so easily becoming one of my favourite persons on TH-cam.
My nana used to make this cheese and we usually ate it with the curd cheese (varskes suris) on a piece of white bread (batonas). The curd cheese is so velvety and rich in texture, but mild in flavour so I do think it compliments it well. It would work well on any cheese platter too :)
Love the two large Christmas trees,especially the green one! Beautiful decorations at the storefronts! Thankyou for sharing it with us. Happy Christmas to you! Have a wonderful holiday in the U.K.
My grandmother used to make apple "cheese" with cloves and aged it over a traditional oven with an open fireplace, so it used to get that deep smoky flavour. Amazing taste. Probably cancerogenic too :D
On between ~7:18-7:20min. video you crossed through the bar that has the biggest craft beers selection in Vilnius. It called Nisha Craft Capital. I really recommend to visit it someday :)
Hi.. good advice for you , to spread butter on a french or any baton and put on apple cheese , and a good appetite with a cup of tea , at breakfast or dinner time...
The best all festivities for you guys in Europe!!!!🇱🇹🇺🇸 The wishes from USA!!! Vilnius is beautiful like always , I’m trying to get some Christmas tree in Cancun, Mexico.. kidding, just salty water on a beachfront and of course Margaritas Now for Lithuanians.. Kaip tauta, mes turim remti vienas kita, šeima , vaikai tai mes.. darbšti tauta, mūsų tradicijos, mūsų gyvenimo stilius, jokio pavydo, mes galim daug daugiau nei mano kiti, tikras Sąjūdis , kuris leis mum Lietuviam parodyti, mes galim, ir padarysim!!! Viskas priklauso tik nuo mūsų pačiu! Gero pašventino!
Hi Laura, Even though our family here in the US celebrated most Lithuanian traditions, or were at least aware of them, I had never heard of apple cheese. Looks delicious! As for the Ethiopian coffee, I'm so glad to see that you enjoyed the experience! That is owned by Eskedar Maštavičienė, who has appeared on numerous tv shows in Lithuania, which I have seen through TH-cam. She roasts her own beans, that's why they are so flavorful. Her enthusiasm and love for the country is much like yours, so I wonder whether you had actually met her? Linksmų Kalėdų!
I remember her too. I never knew her name but wondered what happened to her. I haven't seen her on TH-cam in a while. Thanks for the update. Greetings from JAV.
I don't know about you, but I don't like wall splashes like anywhere. Paintings stylishly printed and adapted to the style of the city in an interesting and beautiful way.I love Lithuania.Hi from Ireland. 🙂
I miss apple cheese so much! I've lived in UK for last 8 years and been missing my apple cheese! Literally, I keep telling people here how great apple cheese is and everyone just look disgusted when they hear about it :D
Wow - I always thought that the apple thing was actually cheese based in one way or another... Err... Yeah. Let's pretend I'm not Lithuanian ;) Best wishes from an LT expat in Thailand :) Hope it's not too cold for ya over there.
Sigh..... The ongoing Covid situation has put a halt to our "normal" annual trip to Lithuania, so I have found your video's a somewhat whimsical indulgence, and whilst not the same as being there, is as close as I will likely get for a little while....but we did none the less have our version of the 12 course Christmas Eve tradition here (in Australia). If have found your video presentations to be delightfully personal, so I shall continue to view LT through your eyes until I have the opportunity to be there again and immerse my self in that special place..... that is Lithuania.
Usually, there are more small stalls around the tree - this year are hardly any at all. Not sure if it was because people couldn’t afford to produce enough to invest in having one.
I was looking forward to this video. Now that you have seen the current Vilnius Christmas Tree, I encourage you to google the previous ones. Lithuania has got a name for making very modern and artistic trees. The last year's tree of 2020 is very cyberpunk in particular, I encourage you to check it out. The reason the Christmas Market looks so small this year is due to Covid. Last year we did not have an xmas town at all. But you can look at pictures of 2019 and see that it wasn't as small. Lastly, I want to ask, how is your studies of Lithuanian going? On this front, it may be a nit-pick, but you seem to call Vilnius as "Vilnus". The "iu" is soft, not hard; more like "news" than "noose". The rule is that "i" in front of a hard vowel like "a, o, u", as in "ia, io, iu" makes that vowel soft. Lithuanian pronounciation is not that difficult, you just need to learn a few rules, but generally that amounts to learning which letters correspond to which sounds. Merry Christmas !
Apple cheese is quite popular, but throughout the year, not specifically for Christmas. I consider it a bit healthier snack than the candies, however not sure if it is true :D My mother has tried once to make it in the apartment, she hanged the cheeses above the gas stove that the cheeses dry out, and banana/little flies started to live in them, so eventually she had to throw them out. It is not easy to make them :D
It's hard to find football shirts here, cause we're not really big fans of football here. Everyone's obsessed with basketball (as you'll get to see next autumn, when there will be the European championship, Eurobasket, happening) and we're frankly just not very good at it.
Wishing you a Merry Christmas. I wonder how you are coping with the winter weather in Lithuania. Lisbon, where I live, isn't as warm as people think, but the pictures Vilnius make me get cold. The Christmas Markets seem to be a bit dull to me, but many businesses/restaurants have made a real effort to get even passers by into the holiday mood. Maybe as Christmas present you could get a microphone that works better in windy weather. I don't now where to get them, but they would improve your videos.
This is not real Chrismas tree in Vilnius... Prienai have real Christmas tree in their town... In my opinion tree in Vilnius they mocking from people. I remember real Christmas tree 10-15 years ago... then was real Christmas tree in that time... I don't love Christmas tree from plastic or anything like that... :) BTW you can see what I'm talking about for example in Prienai town...
Apple cheese is basically a very dense apple jam. Requires lots of apples of sorts with high percentage of Pectin, and very long to cook on a small fire continuously stirring with the spoon. Simple but time-consuming technology. After pressing out the remnant liquid in a cheese cloth, it is left to dry for about a month, or even more. Never had a passion to wait that long😁.
About christmas fairs in Vilnius. There is no one big market, but there are more separate fairs going on all arround the city :) and in all of them you can find interesting lithuanian handmade stuff
But I think they are smaller than before covid.
So beautiful in the city center!
The realy authentik market in Vilnius is Kaziukas market. You gonna wait until Fenruary
No, until March.
Kaziukas is on March
Love the hair...curly and bouncy!! Happy Holidays
Thanks so much, Sherry! Happy holidays to you too!!
oh my gosh! thought I was following someone who was sharing Baja with us only to find your net is cast very wide and very deep! You have risen to the top of my reading/listening/watching pile because of how in love you are with our world! I love it too. thank you so much for the professional attention that you give your videos.
Thank you, Laura for one more of your amazing videos. They make so many people happy to watch and maybe make them happy in general. Maybe this is the mission that you did not (yet) to realise you fulfill here, in this country. Thank you, love it to bits! Ačiū tau! 🥰
Thank you so much, your kind words really mean a lot to me. Labai ačiū!
I loved seeing the decorations. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Safe travels.
Hello Laura :) very beautiful final video before Christmas and New Year celebrations , Vilnius looks very gorgeous while having wonderful Christmas tree , amazing shopping markets , it's great to see that you're very happy while travelling everytime to Vilnius :) i wish you wonderful , warm and full of magic Christmas and amazing New Year , can't wait to see your new videos at the beggining of the next year , have a great time during winter holidays , take care bye :)
Wow , very good, perfect haicut!!!!Stikliu street is Amazing!!!!! Now\t weight, but a lot of sugar from apples :D
Hey, apple cheese is not exclusively a Christmas treat :) On Christmas Eve we do not eat meat, but, I think, dairy is ok.
Regarding Christmas Eve, we have a tradition to have 12 different dishes on the table - representing 12 Apostles (Christian interpretation) or 12 months of the year (pagan interpretation as pagans also had similar holiday on that day). Dishes usually include fish, boiled potatoes with linseeds, various vegetable medleys(or what we call "mišrainė"), pastries (usually with mushrooms), little pastry "bites" - "kūčiukai" (this is a must during Christmas), tangerines, nuts, dried fruits, a thick sweet drink "kisielius", etc. Also, many families leave an empty plate and a glass on a table for our ancestors (I bet this also comes from pagan times).
We don't eat dairy, meat or alcohol at our home during Christmas eve. So no salads with mayonnaise. I think it depends on region and family traditions. But Kūčios is the best evening for me, one of the reasons is different food. Linksmų švenčių!
Dairy is definitely not okay. No meat, dairy and eggs. Just fish, mushroom, vegetable and some egg and dairy free sweet dishes. Only wine is allowed for alcoholic drinks, but just a little amount.
Thanks for sharing your videos. Merry Christmas Luke & Laura! 🎄☃️
I am interested in how the media & the people in Lithuania feel about the reported ‘tense situation regarding Lithuania, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, etc. I love your channel.
Market is spread out because of you know what. Usually it's all next to cathedral square tree and much more festive
Nice view of a country, as a Canadian, I know very little about. Thanks.
So glad I could share some of Lithuania with you all the way in Canada!
Beautiful country and people are so good. The way they hv decorated for Christmas ☃️🎄....God bless them. Have a wonderful Christmas ⛄🎄 and stay safe.
Have a wonderful Christmas as well!
Just discovered your channel 😊 your content and the way you talk about the things places you see is just craving my need to visit those places… love to u from Germany 🇩🇪
nicevideo. i wil come to lihuania next year as an international students.
If you like dumplings, there is a little town not far from Utena named Kavarskas that has a tiny little restaurant called Kavarsko koldūnai that has wonderful dumplings. It's worth a trip! Maybe make it a trip if you want to see the horse museum in Anykščiai, which is not far away.
They were wonderful, but after they became popular, they became worse and worse every time, sadly :/
@@vytautasjacunskas1133 Ah, that's sad. I haven't been there in a few years. They were wonderful then!
Merry Christmas to you too, Dear Laura! So lucky to have you here in our country. I wish that the future would bring you even more joy and happiness here in LT and everywhere else in the world wherever and whenever your life takes you. I too hope one day to bump into you on Vilnius streets and give you a huge hug, if you of course don't mind.
Merry Christmas once again and thank you for so easily becoming one of my favourite persons on TH-cam.
Thank you so much for your kind words Tom, hope to run into you in Vilnius one day!
My nana used to make this cheese and we usually ate it with the curd cheese (varskes suris) on a piece of white bread (batonas). The curd cheese is so velvety and rich in texture, but mild in flavour so I do think it compliments it well. It would work well on any cheese platter too :)
ooo I bet it is DELICIOUS with cheese curd!
Merry christmas you too Laura! :)
Love the two large Christmas trees,especially the green one! Beautiful decorations at the storefronts! Thankyou for sharing it with us. Happy Christmas to you! Have a wonderful holiday in the U.K.
Happy Christmas to you too, Patti!
Just discovered your videos they are so good love from lithuania ❤️
¡Feliz Navidad de Los Barriles! ¡Todo lo mejor para ti y Luke!
Feliz navidad Mike y Heather!! Espero que estén muy bien!!
My grandmother used to make apple "cheese" with cloves and aged it over a traditional oven with an open fireplace, so it used to get that deep smoky flavour. Amazing taste. Probably cancerogenic too :D
Yum, I bet homemade apple cheese is absolutely delicious!
@@laura-bronner I haven't tried non-homemade one, but homemade apple cheese is fantastic.
Happy Christmas to you too 😊 And yes, this is how we eat apple cheese too. The challenge is to not eat it in one sitting though. 😉
haha that is a challenge! I would love to have eaten that whole thing!
Merry Christmas .... 🎄🎄🎄😁
You need to change your camera's anti-flicker frequency in the settings so those LED lights don't shimmer.
On between ~7:18-7:20min. video you crossed through the bar that has the biggest craft beers selection in Vilnius. It called Nisha Craft Capital. I really recommend to visit it someday :)
I have been many times! It’s one of my favorite spots 👍
You're such a sweetheart! Happy holidays!
Hi.. good advice for you , to spread butter on a french or any baton and put on apple cheese , and a good appetite with a cup of tea , at breakfast or dinner time...
oo that sounds good, thanks!!
Appreciate your showing us Lithuania 🙂💞💞 Like# 754
The best all festivities for you guys in Europe!!!!🇱🇹🇺🇸 The wishes from USA!!! Vilnius is beautiful like always , I’m trying to get some Christmas tree in Cancun, Mexico.. kidding, just salty water on a beachfront and of course Margaritas Now for Lithuanians.. Kaip tauta, mes turim remti vienas kita, šeima , vaikai tai mes.. darbšti tauta, mūsų tradicijos, mūsų gyvenimo stilius, jokio pavydo, mes galim daug daugiau nei mano kiti, tikras Sąjūdis , kuris leis mum Lietuviam parodyti, mes galim, ir padarysim!!! Viskas priklauso tik nuo mūsų pačiu! Gero pašventino!
Merry Christmas Laura!
Merry Christmas, Joe!
love your hare laura
Hi Laura,
Even though our family here in the US celebrated most Lithuanian traditions, or were at least aware of them, I had never heard of apple cheese. Looks delicious!
As for the Ethiopian coffee, I'm so glad to see that you enjoyed the experience! That is owned by Eskedar Maštavičienė, who has appeared on numerous tv shows in Lithuania, which I have seen through TH-cam. She roasts her own beans, that's why they are so flavorful. Her enthusiasm and love for the country is much like yours, so I wonder whether you had actually met her?
Linksmų Kalėdų!
I remember her too. I never knew her name but wondered what happened to her. I haven't seen her on TH-cam in a while. Thanks for the update. Greetings from JAV.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas, Judi!
Merry Christmas to you and Luke. Loving the content and sharing your channel at every opportunity. Best for 2022. Muchas gracias for everything. 🍺☀️
Thank you so much 😊😊 Merry Christmas to you too!!
Happy holidays. Love your hair. 🤶
Thanks so much, happy holidays to you too!
I don't know about you, but I don't like wall splashes like anywhere. Paintings stylishly printed and adapted to the style of the city in an interesting and beautiful way.I love Lithuania.Hi from Ireland. 🙂
Great video
LITHUANIA SUPER,🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂
I miss apple cheese so much! I've lived in UK for last 8 years and been missing my apple cheese! Literally, I keep telling people here how great apple cheese is and everyone just look disgusted when they hear about it :D
Those people are missing out! It's so delicious, I can see why you miss it so much!
Merry Christmas Laura, you are such a sweet person
Merry Christmas, Tomas!
Wow - I always thought that the apple thing was actually cheese based in one way or another... Err... Yeah. Let's pretend I'm not Lithuanian ;) Best wishes from an LT expat in Thailand :) Hope it's not too cold for ya over there.
Ką jūsų manymu reiškia žaidimas "spausti sūrį" 😂
@@UtamagUta Nezinau tokio! Gimiau ir uzaugau JAV 😊🇺🇸
@@baconoverflow4384 Visi vakai sukrisdavom vienas ant kito į krūvą šaukdami "spaudžiam sūrį!". Dažniausiai apačioje būdavo kas iš vyresnių
Next time you're in Vilnius, don't forget to visit Stikliai street, beautiful decorations there.
Sigh..... The ongoing Covid situation has put a halt to our "normal" annual trip to Lithuania, so I have found your video's a somewhat whimsical indulgence, and whilst not the same as being there, is as close as I will likely get for a little while....but we did none the less have our version of the 12 course Christmas Eve tradition here (in Australia). If have found your video presentations to be delightfully personal, so I shall continue to view LT through your eyes until I have the opportunity to be there again and immerse my self in that special place..... that is Lithuania.
Nice and good 🙏🍀❤️🎵🎶🎼👌🌲
You are so amaizing! Kiss from Klaipėda.
Usually, there are more small stalls around the tree - this year are hardly any at all. Not sure if it was because people couldn’t afford to produce enough to invest in having one.
I love ❤️ 🥰 VILNIUS 👁️😸💪🇱🇹✌️👏👏👏
I can hardly recognise my own country. Beautiful in so many ways.
I was looking forward to this video. Now that you have seen the current Vilnius Christmas Tree, I encourage you to google the previous ones. Lithuania has got a name for making very modern and artistic trees. The last year's tree of 2020 is very cyberpunk in particular, I encourage you to check it out.
The reason the Christmas Market looks so small this year is due to Covid. Last year we did not have an xmas town at all.
But you can look at pictures of 2019 and see that it wasn't as small.
Lastly, I want to ask, how is your studies of Lithuanian going? On this front, it may be a nit-pick, but you seem to call Vilnius as "Vilnus". The "iu" is soft, not hard; more like "news" than "noose". The rule is that "i" in front of a hard vowel like "a, o, u", as in "ia, io, iu" makes that vowel soft. Lithuanian pronounciation is not that difficult, you just need to learn a few rules, but generally that amounts to learning which letters correspond to which sounds.
Merry Christmas !
Piekna stolica Litwy.
your not in Mexico anymore but i still love your videos. The new haircut looks great. -Marc
Thanks so much, so glad you are still enjoying the videos!!
Apple cheese is quite popular, but throughout the year, not specifically for Christmas. I consider it a bit healthier snack than the candies, however not sure if it is true :D My mother has tried once to make it in the apartment, she hanged the cheeses above the gas stove that the cheeses dry out, and banana/little flies started to live in them, so eventually she had to throw them out. It is not easy to make them :D
It is really delicious, I didn't realize it was available throughout the year. I'll definitely be looking for it again.
Pls come to Kaunas city in Lithuania .
I have been three times already so far, I love Kaunas!
do you need a covid pass to get in everywhere?
Very Pore Christmas market compared to other European destinations
It looks similar to Poland.
I haven't been yet, but hoping to visit next year!
It's hard to find football shirts here, cause we're not really big fans of football here. Everyone's obsessed with basketball (as you'll get to see next autumn, when there will be the European championship, Eurobasket, happening) and we're frankly just not very good at it.
I haven't seen many places to buy basketball jerseys either except for NBA jerseys. We managed to find what we were looking for in the end thankfully!
Wishing you a Merry Christmas. I wonder how you are coping with the winter weather in Lithuania. Lisbon, where I live, isn't as warm as people think, but the pictures Vilnius make me get cold. The Christmas Markets seem to be a bit dull to me, but many businesses/restaurants have made a real effort to get even passers by into the holiday mood.
Maybe as Christmas present you could get a microphone that works better in windy weather. I don't now where to get them, but they would improve your videos.
I'll ask santa for a new microphone and see what happens 😉
🥰👍
a good example of how a hairstyle changes a person
Hopefully in a good way!
This is not real Chrismas tree in Vilnius... Prienai have real Christmas tree in their town... In my opinion tree in Vilnius they mocking from people. I remember real Christmas tree 10-15 years ago... then was real Christmas tree in that time... I don't love Christmas tree from plastic or anything like that... :) BTW you can see what I'm talking about for example in Prienai town...
borring now go to utena
Merry Christmas! 🎁