Turkish garlic yoghurt with carrots (sarımsaklı yoğurtlu havuç salatası or havuç tarator) is a meze dish that we usually only have the pleasure to eat in the home. You sometimes get to eat this tasty Turkish carrot salad on the Blue Bays boat trips around Fethiye. But, for whatever reason, the Turkish restaurants we frequent …
This is our traditional Turkish menemen recipe! The first time we came to Fethiye on holiday, a new Turkish friend we’d met described one of his favourite Turkish breakfast recipes to us. A simple one-pan dish which he translated (inaccurately in our opinion) as ‘Turkish Omelette’. Cue the dreamy face that comes over most Turkish …
Time for refreshing melon salad! 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 …
Seasonal cooking – it’s just the best. And this erik tavası – a Turkish greengage recipe is most definitel seasonal. 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 …
Today we’re going to make sucuklu yumurta; sucuk and eggs! What you are about to read is very probably one of the most simple recipes on our whole blog. However, let that not take away anything from this recipe. Because it is also one of the most tasty satisfying breakfast, brunch – any time of …
More seasonal eating for this article. It’s cauliflower season and we’ve got a great recipe for you. Traditionally Turkish, very easy to make, seasonal, tasty and healthy, too. We’re going to make karnabahar yemeği. And the best description we can give you for that is Turkish cauliflower stew. We’re loving our winter veggies and cauliflower …
Hamsili pilav is a real seasonal treat that we love to make for friends. Those of you who read this blog a lot will be fully aware that hamsi season is one of our favourite times of year. All those little anchovies swimming amongst the icy currents of the Black Sea and along the Bosphorus. …
‘Mezze – Small Plates To Share,’ is a book packed with recipes by award winning, Cordon Bleu trained cookery writer, broadcaster and journalist, Ghillie Başan. The best food should always carry with it stories and happy memories of life events, travels, chance meetings, making new friends or spending quality time with old friends and family. …
Have you heard of chayote squash? We hadn’t until we saw it on the local markets. Seasonal eating – we love it! Especially when it’s a true seasonal food. Something you only see at a certain time of year. A food that you can look forward to, anticipating its appearance on the markets and mentally …
We were on a road trip around the southwest corner of Turkey. Having left the pretty town of Selçuk, we decided to head back to Fethiye via the longer route mainly because we wanted to witness Lake Bafa for ourselves. It was never going to be a long stay around the lake – just a …