We’re going ‘fusion food’ with this vegetarian Mediterranean stuffed peppers recipe. Turkish cuisine is famous for its dolma recipes and peppers stuffed with rice filling is perhaps the most famous of those recipes. But for this recipe, we’re going with the Mediterranean label because, whilst we’re still using Turkish ingredients for our delicious filling, there’s …
We’d been in Izmir for four days and still hadn’t made it to one of the sights on our list of Izmir Must-Sees – Kadifekale (the Velvet Castle). Racing around, bagging sights is never really top of our agenda when we go somewhere new – but Kadifekale sits on top of a hill (of the …
We know that Turkey is famous for its street food and Izmir is a great city to be in if you’re looking to sample lots of street food treats. When we first visited, we were in the city for six short days and were on a mission to eat, eat, eat. Purely because so many …
Long ago, in a faraway corner of Southwest Turkey, the folks of Fethiye became so excited when they heard that the new James Bond film Skyfall was going to be filmed in Turkey… Just the day before, residents of Fethiye were going about their daily business as usual. Then, all of a sudden, from out …
Istanbul’s Beyoğlu area has the famous Istiklal Caddesi – a pedestrianised stretch of shops and eateries and swarms of people weaving their way to their intended destination with varying degrees of success. It’s a feature of the city, just as Alsancak’s Kıbrıs Şehitler Caddesi is for Izmir – except, we’re working on a much smaller …
We do not like to eat cold Turkish broccoli meze dishes all the time,
particularly in winter, so this week we experimented with a broccoli and
potato soup. Here is the recipe…
As shopping centres go, the Egyptian Spice Bazaar in Istanbul is both
historic and aesthetically pleasing. We love walking through the Bazaar to
sense history and breath in the jumble of aromas…
Today is Cumhuriyet Bayramı (Republic Day) in Turkey, so this post seems quite apt for the occasion. Republic Day commemorates the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey in 1923 when Mustafa Kemal Atatürk became the first leader. For today’s post we’re heading back to Izmir and to Alsancak train station. And how does this relate to …
We plumped for Paşa Bufe and sat at an empty table… Quite what the boatyard workers thought about a couple of foreigners plonking down amongst them is anyone’s guess. Especially when one of them is of the female variety. We don’t linger over things like that. Mooching about around Fethiye boatyard is a regular pastime …
When we were staying in our apartment in Alsancak in Izmir, you can imagine how pleased (excited) we were when we woke up on the Sunday morning, opened the patio doors and we could hear the clanking of delivery trucks and traders shouting their prices. Regular readers of this blog will know we have a …