Komşu! Un var'mı? Neighbour! Do you have any flour? An early morning call over the garden wall. It was my neighbour Leyla here in our Aegean village of Assos: have you got any flour, she was ...
Ramazan
Today in Eminönü: Ramazan is over!
This morning we went to Eminönü. It's almost the last day of fasting and this long month of Ramazan, the most sacred month of Islam, will finish tomorrow night at sunset. I imagine those who have been ...
Ramazan, İftar on İstiklal Caddesi, Friends and Turkish Kindness
As you all know by now, I am cocooned in my own little plaster cast world of home. But outside in the real world, it's Ramazan, the month-long period of fasting, which began on Tuesday the 9th. I ...
Turkish Ramazan Pide
In Turkey this year the holy month of Ramazan has fallen during the hottest possible days of July and August. Believers have had to do without food or water for up to 15 hours a day while ...
Maraş Dondurması – Maraş Ice Cream
a Maraş dondurması stand in Eminönü What could be more appropriate in this fiendish heat than ice cream? If you live in Turkey or are visiting, you can enjoy a very special treat called ...
Summer Fruit Drizzle Cake
This week has been the traditional holiday that follows the month-long fast of Ramazan called Şeker Bayramı – şeker (pron: sheh- care) literally means sugar or sweet so when local children come ...
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, ...
Ramazan Reflections
After a long hot day, the patience with which all fasting Moslems await the appointed hour for iftar, the meal which breaks the fast, to be annnounced from the local mosque or on the radio is ...