Tarhana is one of the oldest known instant soups. Possibly the first of its kind, created centuries ago by the Turks living in Central Asia and then spreading widely. Combining many foods that ...
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Celeriac Soup
This celeriac soup is quite exquisite and ridiculously easy to make, with very few ingredients. It has a lovely rich, velvety texture with a distinctly fresh but full flavour. It is really hard to ...
Acem Çorbası/Persian Soup: Another Hearty Soup for You!
I really don't know why it's called Persian Soup but to me the name conjures up images of turbanned merchants travelling a long,hard road with perhaps this soup being prepared by their long-suffering ...
Çatal Aşı Çorbası: a hearty soup from the depths of Anatolia
The weather has turned, one day warm and humid, the next wet and cool. Difficult to know what to wear, difficult to know what to cook. The soup I posted last week with red peppers and ...
Roasted Red Pepper & Tomato Soup/ Közlenmiş Kırmızı Biberli ve Domatesli Çorba
It's not really soup weather yet but these ingredients are so seasonal, so easily available to us here in Turkey right now, I think you simply must try this truly delectable soup. Not only the ...
Delicious Winter Vegetable Soup with Lemon & Egg/Ekşili Çorba
My feet don't seem to have touched the ground these last two weeks what with a photography course, walks, and everything else! Oh yes, we also had the big snow, the worst in 28 years here in ...
Chunky Fish Soup with Vegetables/Sebzeli Balık Çorbası & How to Make Fish Stock/Balık Suyu
In our house we love soups especially during the colder months. Here's my latest and we think it's scrumptious! The traditional Turkish soups lend themselves well to this time of year: ...
A Hearty Autumnal Soup: Wheat with Yogurt Soup/Yoğurtlu Buğday Çorbası
The weather has drastically changed. The temperature has dropped, that beautiful blue sky is now overcast and downright grey. Time to wear socks and forget about France! All summer long, nary a ...