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Fethiye, Turkish Food, Slow Travel Turkey
Freezing cold, blowing a gale outside and pelting with rain. That's when we love to make ourselves cosy and warm with a big steaming pan of comfort - Turkish lamb and chickpea stew. Even here in Fethiye, in southwest Turkey, we can have quite harsh winters. So these soothing winter warmers are …
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This kuru fasulye recipe, Turkey's famous and much-loved white bean stew, is a wonderfully comforting and tasty dish. It never challenges - you know exactly what you're getting - but it always satisfies! The best recipes are not necessarily the most complicated recipes, are they? For us, …
Continue Reading about Etli Kuru Fasulye Recipe – Turkish White Bean Stew With Meat
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
Pure plated indulgence. That's our description for this oh-so-tasty dish; ali nazik kebab. If you like 'cooking light' then look away now. A Gaziantep ali nazik kebab is spicy, rich and buttery. At the same time, the aubergine and yoghurt bed that the meat is laid on is smooth, smoky and …
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Go into any lokanta in Turkey and you will be most unfortunate if you don't see karnıyarık as one of the choices in the bain marie. Along with imam bayıldı, it's a classic Turkish stuffed aubergine recipe. Aubergines are a major ingredient in Turkish cuisine and there are many famous …
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This post is about cağ kebabı - our favourite kebab - and Şehzade Cağ Kebap in the Sirkeci neighbourhood of Istanbul. As usual, with us, we have a little background tale to tell around cağ kebabı. Food that's memorable for all the right reasons; it's a matter of opinion, of personal …
Continue Reading about Şehzade Cağ Kebabı – Happy Memories Of The East In Istanbul
We love to experiment with pasta bake recipes because they're not only good, wholesome comfort foods in winter; they're also easy to play around with. And, you can also make enough so that you can either portion it out and save some for another time, or you can reheat leftovers the day after for a …
Continue Reading about Pasta Bake Recipes – This One Is Yoghurt Topped
Hünkar Beğendi is an absolute classic of Ottoman cuisine. There are those moments in life where you peruse the menu in a restaurant, plump for a dish, stick your fork into the food. And then you get that life-changing taste sensation. And that's not so much of an exaggeration; life-changing …
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We've been wanting to do a post on the sheer delight that is lamb tandır for a long time but I always forget to take a photo of it whenever we're at Cin Bal in Kayaköy. As soon as the tandır arrives at the table, we all dive straight in there; testament to how good this dish is I guess. When we …
Continue Reading about Turkish Food – Kuzu Tandır (Lamb Tandir)
