Summer is when dishes like this green lentil salad recipe really come into their own. What to eat when the weather is hot, hot, hot? You know you need to eat but you just don’t know what you feel like. Nothing too stodgy, that’s for certain. That’s what we’ve been feeling like recently, now that …
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 …
Yoğurtlu Kozlenmiş Karnabahar – or roasted cauliflower with yoghurt sauce to those of us communicating in the English language. This Turkish roasted cauliflower recipe is so easy and tasty – a winner of a side dish, as a meze or as a standalone snack, too. Because, it’s all very well feasting your eyes upon all …
We’re always playing around with different meze recipes just because it’s a great way to eat. The meze table is a social thing, even when it’s just the two of us – and even if we’re just talking about the food we’ve made. Recently, we made a new addition to our meze menu and, although …
Brussels sprouts are no longer that unwanted, yet essential, side of veg on your Christmas dinner plate. If you haven’t discovered roasted Brussels sprouts, read on! “In your face, Brussels sprouts!” Upon conquering them, that pretty much summed up the feeling when eating them. They were the final frontier of vegetables we just didn’t like …
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 …
It’s not often we write about Turkish desserts or sweetie goodness on this blog because neither of us has a particularly sweet tooth. However, the holy month of Ramadan has ended and now, Ramazan Bayramı is once more upon us. And, as this is the time when people tend to indulge in foods of the …
Mantı – it’s easy to wonder what all the fuss is about. The first time we saw it (and had no idea what it was called) was when we originally moved to Fethiye. Our neighbour knocked on our door, presenting us with a bowl of little dough parcels encasing a tiny piece of minced beef …
Today we’re making delicious baba ganoush – or yoghurt and aubergine salad! Summer is well and truly underway now. And this is perfect weather for exploring Turkish meze recipes. In particular, yoghurt-based meze recipes; perfect for keeping the body cool on ridiculously hot summer days. This yoghurt-based meze also uses a people’s foodie favourite, aubergine. …
In our two days on the road in the east of Turkey we’d seen so much, observed so much, realised a couple of ambitions – it was all bordering on the overwhelming; just amazing – and now it was time to head to Kars to get some food before driving back to Patnos. Let’s recap …