I'm an avid recipe reader and now have a huge collection of recipes I have been able to cut out plus the handwritten ones and put into scrapbooks. Every so often - not that often, if the truth ...
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Cabbage Turkish-style: Kapuska
Here in Turkey cabbages or lahana feature bigtime in winter. Look at this laden stall in my local Istanbul market in Selami Çeşme. Not only is the number of them impressive but their size ...
My Colourful Winter Vegetable Soup
Meanwhile, along with lentil soup, here is another of my faithful soupy seasonal stand-bys. Again the familiar market vegetables, carrots, potatoes, and leeks, but this time in ...
Celeriac Carpaccio
This is what happens when a young Turkish cook applies her culinary creativity to the traditional zeytinyağlı kereviz /celeriac meze and successfully gives it a modern twist. Traditionalists, ...
Beautiful Turkish Olives
If you have travelled along the Aegean coast of Turkey, you will have seen scores and scores of gnarled silvery-leafed olive trees clinging to hillsides and lining every little country road. ...
The Great Turkish Breakfast
My favourite meal Breakfast really is my favourite meal. I think Turkish breakfast beats any other breakfasts hands-down. I do make a concession to scrambled eggs when I'm in England though. And even ...
New Year in an Aegean Village (3)
Camel Wrestling I have always been a sucker for camels so when neighbour Peter came back from Ayvacık market on Friday and said that he had seen seven of them, I was instantly interested. I had ...
New Year in an Aegean Village (2)
New Year's Day We couldn't stay inside and anyway a walk down to the old harbour of Assos we felt would do us good after the feast that we enjoyed at Biber Evi - literally Chilli ...
New Year in an Aegean Village (1)
The last day of 2010 was a glorious day but it didn't feel that way at 6.45 on Friday morning. There I was seated on the fast ferry which skims across the Marmara Sea to a place called ...