This soup is a far cry from the hearty soups of Anatolia, based as they are on lentils, bulgur and chickpeas and designed to be a meal in their own right. We eat a lot of soup in ...
Soup
Cream of Turnip Soup/Şalgam Çorbası ……..Turnip Juice/Şalgam Suyu
cream of turnip soup garnished with dried mint and served with crusty bread innocuous-looking turnips I think my one and only association with turnips was when I was 4 and could read ...
Tarhana Çorbası/Tarhana Soup
fit for a sultan Once upon a time many centuries ago, there was a Sultan who was a guest at a poor peasant’s house. There was no food to offer him as such and this was the only dish the ...
Delicious Carrot Soup
Turks love soup or çorba, an easy one to pronounce for a change: chorba. All small local lokantas especially in the more traditional areas such as Kadıköy or Üsküdar will offer günün ...
Mousseline de Courgettes
Isn’t that a lovely name? Yes, it’s French but I am not in France anymore. I am back home in Istanbul and have already made this recipe twice! light and airy mousseline de ...
50 Women Game-Changers in Food – Fannie Farmer – Pure Cream of Tomato Soup
A number of us are following Mary of One Perfect Bite's invitation to cook along following the list of 50 amazing women cooks who have changed our outlook on food. I am loving this whole challenge as ...
Two More Celeriac Recipes
I hope you are in the mood for celeriac/kereviz because that's on the menu today! I was going through my old 2010 diary the other day looking for a number when my glance fell upon a recipe for Spiced ...
Ezo Gelin or Daughter-in-law’s Soup
ezo gelin: hearty and satisfying Gelinimiz. What a lovely term of endearment. This is what I am here to my Turkish family: our bride, our daughter-in-law. Even though years have passed since ...