It's bayram in the Moslem world and the feeling is something like Christmas but the sun is shining. Many shops are shut but some smaller 'market' as they call supermarkets, are open. However, you ...
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Celeriac – Celery Root – with Walnuts in Garlic Yogurt/Cevizli Kereviz Salatası
This salad is yet another variation on the garlic yogurt theme, this time using grated celeriac instead of let's say, carrot or, in summer, chopped cucumber. I had forgotten all about this ...
Courgettes with Walnuts in a Garlic Yogurt Sauce/Cevizli Sarımsaklı Kabak Mezesi
This is a very Aegean meze which I have just learnt from my lovely upstairs neighbour Esma who hails from Izmir, just down the coast a bit. courgettes with walnuts in a garlic yogurt ...
Orange Kiss-Me-Cake: A Recipe from My Past!
Do you see how stained and tattered this recipe is? Here it is, in the unmistakable handwriting of dear old friend MK. But the recipe is attributed to Pat Fesçi who was undoubtedly one of the original ...
Bulgur and Walnut Salad/Cevizli Bulgur Salatası
As the weather dances between deceptively warm and sunny and then freezing cold, knowing what to wear but also what to eat, becomes a tricky issue. Are we into salads big time yet or not? Or are ...
Olive Piyaz/Zeytin Piyazı – a salad of green olives with walnuts and pomegranate molasses
Olives! More olives! I stumbled across this recipe just a few days ago on a THY flight to London in the inflight magazine Skylife. In fact, the recipe section was entirely devoted to olives, much to ...
Apricot, Walnut and Lavender Cake
Being stuck at home with your leg in plaster is not totally without its compensations: I have never been so up on the news in my life! Vive l'internet! So, I've been catching up on multiple ...
Olga’s Very Own Turkish Persimmon Bread
moist and packed with the flavours of persimmon, dried fig and walnut Here is one of those jewels of a recipe: this persimmon loaf is scrumptious beyond ...