Last Sunday we drove out to Şile on the Black Sea coast to investigate what will hopefully be Turkey's third Earth Market. It proved easy to find and we spent a couple of very enjoyable hours ...
Mezes
Spicy Red Lentil Kofte/Mercimek Köftesi
Whenever I am invited to a teaparty by a Turkish friend, more often than not, these little beauties are part of the spread. When I first came to Turkey, it came as a surprise to see these ...
Crumbled Feta/White Cheese Salad with Spices, Lemon Juice & Olive Oil/ Çökelek Salatası
Thank you, Özlem, for introducing this salad to me! I had never heard of çökelek before and now I am hearing about it all the time. Or so it seems. That evening, the evening of Özlem's cooking ...
Spicy Turkish Liver in the Albanian style: Arnavut Ciğeri
Albanian liver Arnavut ciğeri [pron:jee/air], in the Turkish Liver style is a popular choice here for the meze table! Although it's Albanian, it's found all over Turkey Historically, this dish ...
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 ...
Purslane Salad with Tahini and Hazelnuts
If nobody looks at this post tonight, I won't blame you. Our beloved Turkey is in a desperate plight and the uncertainty of its future is hanging heavily over us. But here I am in our village ...
Feeling chuffed ….!!
I was nonchalantly checking out my stats when I fell upon the All Seasons website What did I see there: not one, not two, but three of my very own posts! Feeling good .....!!!! This is just a ...
Tabule: Tabbouleh or Tabbouli 1
tabule full of colour and flavour I expect by now everyone has their own version of this popular Middle Eastern salad or meze which originally hails from the mountains of Syria and ...