I like to think of myself as quite an aficionado of white cheese. I really, really like it and have been known to take my own kalıp or lump with me when I travel! all these places are in ...
Turkish Breakfast
Menemen: Eggs Turkish-style
menemen almost cooked! Today is a day akin to Christmas: it’s the first day of Şeker Bayram (pron: shek-er by-rum) ie the 30 days of Ramazan are over and you can just feel the relief in the air. ...
Turkish Breakfast by the Sea
I think I am in heaven. the breakfast buffet centrepiece Actually I am in Olympos down in the south of Turkey beside the shimmering Mediterranean. We are all here, little Eva ...
The Kastamonu Market in Kasımpaşa
Despite low clouds over a steely grey Bosphorus, I had a great Sunday which started like this:Daughter No 1 and I had arranged to meet at 9.40 at the Sunday market in Kasımpaşa ...
A Spicy Red Pepper Spread with Toasted Walnuts and Pomegranate Molasses
acuka - a spicy red pepper spread This really pushes all my buttons. Give me this and leave me to die. In Western Turkey it is known as acuka (pron: a-joo-ka) but the further ...
Turkish Çay demystified
I love tea and I especially love Turkish çay. It has its own special ritual something akin to fixing cocktails at 6pm with its own clink of glasses and the sound of filling the kettle and then ...
Beautiful Turkish Olives
If you have travelled along the Aegean coast of Turkey, you will have seen scores and scores of gnarled silvery-leafed olive trees clinging to hillsides and lining every little country road. ...
The Great Turkish Breakfast
My favourite meal Breakfast really is my favourite meal. I think Turkish breakfast beats any other breakfasts hands-down. I do make a concession to scrambled eggs when I'm in England though. And even ...