carrot salad with garlic yogurt/yoğurtlu sarımsaklı havuç Yogurt is a fact of life if you live here in Turkey. You will find it everywhere sold in containers so large it's ...
Salad
salade-nicoise
I am making this a page and not a post as I only ate this and didn't make it or even observe someone else making it! But there we were in Nice so it seemed the right thing to choose for lunch. We ...
Olive Piyaz/Zeytin Piyazı – a salad of green olives with walnuts and pomegranate molasses
Olives! More olives! I stumbled across this recipe just a few days ago on a THY flight to London in the inflight magazine Skylife. In fact, the recipe section was entirely devoted to olives, much to ...
Toros Salad/ Toros Salatası: a salad of fresh herbs with sumac and pomegranate molasses
We all love a good kebab and Turkey is truly the land of kebabs! Thousands of places sell them in Istanbul, some just holes in the wall, others proper restaurants and some of course are better than ...
Swiss Chard with tahini, yogurt & buttered pine nuts
This is a recipe straight out of Ottolenghi's Jerusalem and it pushes all my buttons. I am never quite sure that Swiss chard is what here in Turkey we call pazı but I am proceeding as though it is. ...
Yoğurtlu Börülce: An Aegean Green Bean Salad with Yogurt
Today is the 30th August, Zafer Günü or Victory Day: an important national holiday here commemorating the day the Turks drove the Greeks out at the Battle of Dumlupınar in Central Anatolia in ...
Tabbouleh: Tabule or Tabbouli 2
Why is this Tabbouleh 2? Simply because last year I posted a tabule recipe, Turkish-style (and Turkish spelling!). However, this one is different. Read on! I think I've mentioned that in reading ...
Courgette, green apple, dill, fresh mint and lor peyniri salad
Istanbul has still not settled down and the streets are volatile. But I had a quick escape to the UK for a class reunion and came back last night. I must confess, my heart was here throughout. ...