Turkey's For Life
Fethiye, Turkish Food, Slow Travel Turkey
It's time to make winter chutney! This time of year is always a cheerful display of the contrasting autumn/winter colours of the seasonal produce that currently tempts the food shopper at Fethiye market. Plump, silky plums, blushing apples, the vibrant orange of mandalina (Mandarin …
Continue Reading about Winter Chutney Recipe – A Feast Of Seasonal Produce
This time of year is abundant with spring fruits and vegetables, making trips to Fethiye market and Çalış market all the more pleasurable. And now, it is the season for the delightful loquat fruit... If you read this blog regularly, you'll know we love to eat and cook seasonally. It's really not …
Continue Reading about Yeni Dünya Kebab – The Best Way To Celebrate Loquat Season
What to eat? The temperatures are soaring, it's humid, the appetite isn't up to much. But you know you've got to replenish your weary body. And, if you're anything like us and you love your food, you'd like to actually sit and enjoy putting those energy-giving calories back in! Thank goodness then …
Seasonal cooking - it's just the best. The best because when the food markets are abundant in a particular seasonal fruit or vegetable for just a few weeks, we get over-excited and buy far too much of it for two people. And that's when we're forced to get creative and learn new recipes. This is a …
Continue Reading about Erik Tavası Recipe – Turkish Cooking With Seasonal Fruit
When is strawberry season in Fethiye? Well, right about now, as it happens. This is also the time of year for the sour foods where erik (unripe plums) start to make an appearance and çağla (unripe almonds) abound on the stalls of the markets around Fethiye - and it's where trays, piled with plump …
Continue Reading about It’s Strawberry Season In Fethiye! How Do You Eat Yours?
"Okay, let's go to the grove and pick up the olives," our friend's dad said, grinning. Our friend rolled her eyes - this is all old hat to her - and asked us if we wanted to go and help harvest the olives (she quite clearly didn't). Of course we wanted to go and help get the olives. We were dying …
Continue Reading about Our Olive Haul On The Datça Peninsula
We're eating seasonally again for this article, and, as the hot summer temperatures really begin to kick in and sap our energy, this simple but tasty nectarine recipe is just what is needed. We've followed the summer fruits through the season, starting with the delicate loquats back in early May. …
Continue Reading about A Simple But Oh-So-Satisfying Celebration Of Nectarine Season
Tuesday; Fethiye market day and one of our favourite pastimes. How can food shopping ever be a chore when you've got a weekly carnival of seemingly endless rows of market stalls? All packed with the current produce of the season intermingled with the regular staples? The colours, the aromas …
This is another new and mysterious Turkish seasonal food that has just hit our radar. Anyone ever seen it before? When we went to our friends' house on Christmas Day to eat aşure, this was handed over to take with us. Neither of us had ever seen it before nor had a clue what it was! Our …
Continue Reading about Seasonal Food in Turkey – Hurma of a Different Variety
Before we'd ever been to Turkey, neither of us could really see the point of fresh tomatoes. They were the occasional sandwich filler and nothing else. Watery, hard, tasteless, orange things. (We know some people can get hold of good tomatoes in Britain but in our neck of the woods, there's no such …
Continue Reading about Seasonal Food in Turkey – Domates – Ugly Fruit
