You haven't lived if you haven't spent an hour or so preparing ladies' fingers aka okra/bamya!Yes, it is a very fiddly job: whatever you do, don't buy them unless you're ready to spend the time ...
Olive Oil Dishes and Mezes
How to make Turkish Fava ….
Fava is one of those dishes that you either love or you don't. It's really that clear.Personally, I love it: there's something about the consistency, soft and melting-in-your-mouth, that I find ...
Summer Eggplants: different version Patlıcan Salatası/Aubergine Salad
Aubergines or eggplants? Or shall we use the Turkish word patlıcan? Summer eggplants: different version eggplant salad/patlıcan salatasıBut a rose by any other name, ...
Roasted aubergine with fried onion & chopped lemon
I seem to have been stuffing and filling a lot of veggies recently, some with more success than others. It all depends on the quality of what you are stuffing and of course, on the the stuffing ...
Stuffed Red Peppers: an Olive Oil-based Dish – Zeytinyağlı Kırmızı Biber Dolması
I expect you all know that life is too short to stuff a mushroom.Well, in all my time here in Turkey, I have stuffed more vegetables than I care to count but somehow never red peppers! What does ...
Hummus with Lemon Sauce/ Limon Soslu Humus
We all seem to love hummus! Amazing when you think that way back we'd never heard of the stuff. Did your mother use chickpeas? Did anyone know what tahini was? We were just getting used to garlic, for ...
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 ...
Artichokes – Enginar: it’s the season once again!
Artichokes or enginar as they are called here in Turkey, to our great delight regularly make their appearance every spring on every street corner and in all the markets of ...