Sucuk (Turkish sausage) is to Turkish cuisine what chorizo is to Spanish cuisine; what salami is to Italian cuisine. A spicy, cured sausage of ground meat that is packed with flavour. Granted, these sausages are never going to fall under the ‘health food’ category, but we all need a naughty-but-nice foodie treat every now and …
A very apt title for the March roundup of our monthly news from Fethiye. Fethiye Weather – March Because, let’s kick off with the late winter and early spring weather over the last four weeks or so. We haven’t had much of a winter at all this year but, intermittently, in March, we’ve had snow …
Way before we first ever came to Turkey on holiday back in 1998, our knowledge of Turkish cuisine started and ended with its most (in)famous export: The döner kebab! If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ll be fully aware that, mercifully, this is no longer the case. We love to experiment in the …
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 TV …
Month Two of 2021 has come to an end. So it’s time to have a look at what’s been going on around Fethiye – and what we’ve been getting up to – with our monthly Fethiye news update. Despite the fact that there are still weekend and evening curfews, along with other Covid restrictions, Fethiye …
First it was zesty revani. This time, it’s a much-loved Turkish version of a classic Rice Pudding. Here’s our Sütlaç recipe! What’s this? Haven’t we spent years (double figures, at that!) mentioning to you in countless articles on this blog that neither of us has a particularly sweet tooth? And now, here we are with …
Are you familiar with this Turkish revani recipe? A light, sponge semolina cake drenched in a zesty syrup. If you have a soft spot for tasty sweet treats, this is going to be a dessert for you! A few years ago, we were sent a copy of the famous Turkish cookbook, The Sultan’s Kitchen, for …
Welcome to our first Fethiye news roundup of 2021! Wonder if we’re starting as we mean to go on (and continuing as we usually do) by way of being a few days out of kilter. Because, here we are, bringing you news of January in Fethiye, when we are already a few days into the …
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 their Turkish name, …
Sitting above the northwest corner of Eğirdir Lake in the Isparta Province of Turkey lie the ruins of Antioch Of Pisidia. We were in Eğirdir to finally experience the beauty of the vast lake and the mountain scenery. As well as Turkey’s spectacular lakeland scenery, we were also there for the culinary experience – Lake …