I've just been wondering what the translation of poğaça (pron: po/a/cha) could possibly be and have come to the conclusion that there isn't one per se. These are delightful little savoury pastries ...
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Crumbled Feta/White Cheese Salad with Spices, Lemon Juice & Olive Oil/ Çökelek Salatası
Thank you, Özlem, for introducing this salad to me! I had never heard of çökelek before and now I am hearing about it all the time. Or so it seems. That evening, the evening of Özlem's cooking ...
The Ins and Outs of White Cheese or Feta/Beyaz Peynir!
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 ...
Muffin Borek/Muffin Böreği: Teatime Delights filled with cheese, tomato and peppers!
When I saw the name of this recipe, I had to smile: just for me, I thought: a muffin disguised as a Börek! This is a real Turkish recipe, I didn't make it up! However this borek is different: ...
Peynirli Poğaça – Cheesy Teatime Pastries
If you live in Turkey, you will know all about poğaça. The pronunciation is difficult: that ğ is silent but it makes the preceding vowel long, and the ç is pronounced ch. So, pooo/a/cha? You ...
Courgette, green apple, dill, fresh mint and lor peyniri salad
Istanbul has still not settled down and the streets are volatile. But I had a quick escape to the UK for a class reunion and came back last night. I must confess, my heart was here throughout. ...
İspanaklı Peynirli Böreği – Spinach and Cheese Pastry Roll
There is a certain mystique about Turkish börek that we foreigners are acutely aware of. We like to eat them but we tend to think they're not for us: we hesitate to make them because we think we ...
White Cheese (feta) and Herb Loaf – Beyaz Peynirli ve Otlu Kek
I've been doing rather a lot of gezzing recently. And what is this word 'gezzing' you may well ask: it originally comes from the Turkish verb, gezmek. Loosely speaking, it means to go ...