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Fethiye, Turkish Food, Slow Travel Turkey
We absolutely love seafood and ekşili balık (eck-shee-lee balick) is our Turkish fish stew recipe that can be enjoyed all year round. I say 'our recipe.' Like kızartma and Izmir Köfte, ekşili balık is actually under Barry's charge. Nothing to do with me. Apart from the enjoyment of eating it …
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Around ten years ago, a new seafood restaurant opened in Fethiye. It was along what was then the new harbour. But there was a main road and other restaurants between Girida Restaurant and the sea. Nevertheless, it captured the attention of the people of Fethiye. Its tables were packed on a …
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Füme alabalık ezmesi - or, to give it its English language name: smoked trout pate. So simple and, yet, a complete revelation for us in the kitchen department. We love pate, we love seafood - why had we never mixed the two until recently? That's because many a lazy Saturday has been spent watching …
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Turkish börek (pastries) play an integral role in Turkish cuisine, and, as well as the variety of fillings, there are also different types of pastry and different ways in which that pastry can be cut or shaped. For this recipe, we're going to be making seafood filo triangles or, to give them …
What's not to love about homemade fish cakes? They've always been a regular in our house, usually if we have leftover fish from another meal. Fish cakes are perfect for using up those leftovers and creating another satisfying dish. However, recently something has changed. No longer are our fish …
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For our last blog post, we were in Erciş on the northern shores of Lake Van watching the amazing site that is the inci kefal (pearl mullet) attempting to swim upstream for spawning season. For today's post, we're staying in Erciş and it's the same day. We'd taken photos of the fish - lots of …
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It's the perfect time of year, here in Fethiye. Pleasantly sunny, but not baking hot, and the nights are getting cooler, aiding a more comfortable night's sleep. It's trekking weather - and it's cooking weather. We know autumn has well and truly kicked in for a lot of you who are reading elsewhere …
Continue Reading about Sebzeli Uskumru Çorbası – A Turkish Mackerel Soup Recipe
Turkey is well known for its fantastic street food and, in Istanbul, you could probably lay your hands on street food traditional to just about anywhere in Turkey. Whenever we visit Istanbul, one of the highlights of our time there is working our way through the variety on offer, and in October, we …
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