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 …
We had a post planned for today but it’s going to have to wait for another time as we just have to share this story with you. A lovely (for us) random act of kindness, generosity, thoughtfulness, whatever you want to call it. It’s made our Monday anyway and has confirmed why we love blogging …
Recently, we’ve been trying to familiarise ourselves with and sample a few different Turkish cheeses. In the past, we’ve been content with the white cheeses (beyaz peynir) and local Fethiye tulum (cheese that’s stored in goat’s skin) so we decided it was time for a bit of variety in our cheese diet. If we buy …
We’ve already written a post about how, since moving to Turkey, we have grown to love yoghurt – it’s been quite a long journey – and we’ve posted a recipe for the famous Turkish yoghurt dish, cacık; a refreshing mix of natural Turkish yoghurt, cucumber and mint. There are different types of natural yoghurt in …