Delia's Italian Stuffed Aubergines This summer I did a lot of cooking with aubergines as they are Turkey’s best-loved summer vegetable. However,there is a big difference ...
Vegetables
İmam Bayıldı/the Imam Fainted: Another Delicious Aubergine Dish
İmam Bayıldı or The Imam Fainted I am sure you must have known that sooner or later a recipe for İmam Bayıldı would appear on my blog especially with all the aubergine recipes I have been cooking ...
More Bottling of Summer Tomatoes
I say 'more' because I tried it last summer. Bottling tomatoes is something that even the faintest-hearted cook must surely feel like doing if she lives here. The urge to capture some of the flavour ...
Pizza with Fresh Tomato and Cheese
just out of the oven: pizza with tomato and cheese We have been perfecting our pizzas using dough from the local bakery/fırın as in my recent post as we find that along with a green salad, ...
Stuffed Marrow: an English dolma!
A few days ago the garden gate creaked and the familiar figure of our nextdoor neighbour Leyla appeared round the corner. She was bearing a tepsi/tray full of produce from her garden and what a ...
Caramelised Red Onion and Anchovy Pizza with Black Olives
caramelised red onion and anchovy pizza with black olives Yes, you're right. This is not a Turkish recipe but with these ingredients, it could easily be which is why I leapt at it.Turks of ...
50 Women Game-Changers in Food – MFK Fisher – Her Splendid Ratatouille
a spoonful of thick sweet-smelling ratatouille A really exceptional woman this week: Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (1908-1992). The more I read about her, the more I want to read. Her writings ...
Dolma: Summer Vegetables Stuffed with Meat and Herbs
I never make dolma in the winter so for me, as soon as the sun begins to shine and the temperatures start to rise, the dolma-making instinct in me stirs. Of course it’s the fact that all of a ...