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 ...
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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 ...
Vine Leaves Stuffed with Rice and Meat – Etli Yaprak Sarma
Here are the leaves I picked a few days ago after it stopped raining. From the vine in our Assos garden. It’s been a very wet spring and this past week was punctuated by thunderstorms and pouring ...
Cabbage Rolls with Bulgur Antakya-style/ Bulgurlu Lahana Sarma
cabbage rolls/ lahana sarma I bought a cookbook last week on the strength of one picture and it was of this dish. The book itself – Antakya: City and Cuisine by Jale Balcı - ...
Stuffed Marrow: an English dolma!
A few days ago the garden gate creaked and the familiar figure of our nextdoor neighbour Leyla appeared round the corner. She was bearing a tepsi/tray full of produce from her garden and what a ...
Dolma: Summer Vegetables Stuffed with Meat and Herbs
I never make dolma in the winter so for me, as soon as the sun begins to shine and the temperatures start to rise, the dolma-making instinct in me stirs. Of course it’s the fact that all of a ...
Meat-Stuffed Chard Rolls or Etli Pazı Sarma
Sarma or Dolma? These are not quite the same although the names are sometimes used interchangeably. These made from Swiss Chard leaves are called sarma because they are rolled. Cabbage and vine ...