Börek & Bread

When friends come to visit from the UK and go home with Food memories, those delicious ‘Turkish cheese rolls’ that they always talk about are called sigara böreği (cigarette borek) or kalem böreği (pencil borek). Think slim spring rolls. ‘Kalem böreği’ is the more encouraged name these days. ‘Pencil shaped’ being a more acceptable phrase …

This post is a continuation of the celebration of the lactarius
deliciosus…the saffron milk cap mushroom…the çintar mushroom.

A couple of days ago, we went to Fethiye market to buy some yufka (filo pastry) so we could make kol böreği – a filo spiral. Over the years, we’ve developed a love of cooking and have stopped buying many of the ready prepared goodies that we used to buy from the shelves and deli …