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Mushrooms on toast is one of life's simple pleasures. And, when you can make this simple pleasure even more of a treat by adding garlic and making it seasonal, it just brings out even more appreciation of mushrooms. In November, we're blessed with the growth of the meaty orange mushroom, çıntar …
Continue Reading about Garlic Mushrooms On Toast Recipe – Make It Seasonal, Make It Indulgent
Autumn; the days are shorter and cooler, there's a dampness to the cold night air...and the beautiful Saffron Milk Cap Mushrooms sprout beneath the pine trees in the forests around Fethiye. Time to make mushroom risotto! As you are no doubt aware by now, we enjoy our Turkish seasonal produce and …
Continue Reading about Spinach & Seasonal Mushroom Risotto Recipe
These days, even at the local markets around Turkey, it's possible to eat some fruits and vegetables year-round without having to worry about them going out of season. Yes, some months will be more bountiful than others - and prices will fluctuate occasionally - but those foods are the staples of …
Continue Reading about Saffron Milk Cap Mushroom Season – That’s November In Fethiye
How many years have we been doing an annual troop up to the Yeşilüzümlü Mushroom Festival? A good few, now. Well, it's the event that heralds spring for us, really. It's changed a lot over those years - the event is slightly different each time, and, let's face it, we all change and get older. A …
Continue Reading about Yeşil Üzümlü Mushroom Festival 2015 – It Was All About The Music
We talk about seasonal foods in Turkey rather a lot on this blog and, while some seasonal items tend to appear on Fethiye market on a more year-round basis - they're just in their prime at certain times of the year - there are some foods that are truly seasonal; here one minute, gone the …
Continue Reading about Eating Seasonally – A Recipe For Çıntar Mushrooms With Sucuk
We love this time of year, here in Fethiye; we're enjoying barbecue season - and, of course, we expect to be doing so for a good while yet. Wherever you may be reading this post, we hope you've got barbecue weather, too, because this recipe is perfect for your outdoor grill. If the weather's not …
Continue Reading about Stuffed Mushrooms Recipe – Perfect For The Barbecue
Over the last weekend, the village of Üzümlü once again hosted the exodus of visitors from Fethiye and environs who were going to enjoy the 4th Yeşil Üzümlü Mushroom Festival. In past years, we've headed up there with friends on the final day, the Sunday, and got fully and enthusiastically behind …
Continue Reading about Üzümlü Mushroom Festival: The Opening Ceremony
Have you ever tried a really expensive and rare food and then wondered what all the fuss was about? Can a food really be that good? We're talking morel mushrooms! After this year's Üzümlü Mushroom Festival, we were really curious about the morel mushroom; so expensive in the UK but a reasonably …
In Turkey, the morel mushroom is known as Kuzu Göbeği; Lamb's Stomach mushroom - and we're surmising this is because of the appearance of the mushroom. The texture and patterns on the cap resemble tripe (cow's stomach lining) and maybe the stomach lining of a lamb is similar. Despite the presence …
Continue Reading about Seasonal Food in Turkey: Morel Mushrooms (Kuzu Göbeği)
This post is a continuation of the celebration of the lactarius deliciosus, the saffron milk cap mushroom, the çintar. This time, we're going to be doing a traditional Turkish börek recipe and teaming this tasty mushroom up with spinach. Spinach and mushroom is always a dream combination. Since …
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