Meals like this are very common here and belong to the type called tencere yemeğı or tray/pan dishes where everything is cooked together: vegetables, meat and a grain, usually rice, sometimes bulgur: ...
Vegetables
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 ...
Yoğurtlu Börülce: An Aegean Green Bean Salad with Yogurt
Today is the 30th August, Zafer Günü or Victory Day: an important national holiday here commemorating the day the Turks drove the Greeks out at the Battle of Dumlupınar in Central Anatolia in ...
Okra with Chicken/Tavuklu Bamya
All fresh vegetables need attention of one sort or another but there are some that need just too much - I'm not convinced that they're worth it in the end! Think eg börülce, a type of French bean, ...
Roasted Tomatoes with Herbs and Anchovy Fillets
It's the height of summer here in Turkey and it feels great. What I really love is waking up every morning to a clear blue sky and having the full certainty that today the temperature is going to soar ...
Patlıcan Oturtma: Aubergine/Eggplant Oturtma
Being told not to put your weight on your left foot does introduce certain constraints on one's daily activities especially cooking. I fully intend to get the hang of this hopping but it isn't as easy ...
Stuffed Round Courgettes – Etli Yuvarlak Kabak Dolması
After using one of those little rolypoly courgettes in a salad last week, I still had quite a few left. Here in Turkey we are no stranger to stuffing vegetables; in fact, this is probably the ...