Archive for April, 2009

Borek with Stinging Nettle Herb

Zerrin on 04 28, 2009 | 19 Comments

Borek with Stinging Nettle Herb

Isırgan Otlu Borek We visited one of our relatives yesterday and we had great time in their garden. They have a fantastic garden full of flowers, some fruit trees and some herbs. You feel in heave

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Eggplant Feast

Zerrin on 04 24, 2009 | 14 Comments

Eggplant Feast

Zeytinyagli Patlican When Summer is close, we start to cook different dishes from eggplants as we know that these are real eggplants not fake as in Winter time. And this one is our favorite. Th

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Savory Pastry

Zerrin on 04 21, 2009 | 23 Comments

Savory Pastry

Tuzlu Kuru Pasta My friend, my neighbor at the same time, called this afternoon and invited me to have Turkish coffee together. She’s very good at making Turkish coffee with a lot of foams on

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Keskek

Zerrin on 04 20, 2009 | 20 Comments

Keskek

Keşkek is a special name of a traditional wedding dish. It is mostly made in Central Anatolia and Agean region of Turkey. Weddings in these places last a few days and during this time,  various di

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Potato Salad

Zerrin on 04 16, 2009 | 19 Comments

Potato Salad

Patates Salatası We didn’t have enough time to prepare a dish for dinner this evening. We were so hungry that we needed something quick, but of course it wouldn’t be a kind of prepackaged food

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Purslane Salad

Zerrin on 04 14, 2009 | 16 Comments

Purslane Salad

Semizotu Salatası My favorite time of the year has started in Eskişehir, so I feel more energetic and happier when I go out as I see a lot of trees full of blooms. And believe me it’s rea

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Dried Fig

Zerrin on 04 12, 2009 | 18 Comments

Dried Fig

Kuru incir I want to introduce the kinds of dried fruits used in Turkey in my blog and dried figs will be the first today. Dried fruits have an important place in Turkish kitchen, I don’t k

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Albanian Liver

Zerrin on 04 10, 2009 | 7 Comments

Albanian Liver

Arnavut Cigeri We decided to have raki for dinner tonight and one of our favorite appetizers (savory foods) to eat with raki is Albanian liver. It certainly goes perfect with raki. We used to

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Leek With Olive Oil

Zerrin on 04 8, 2009 | 13 Comments

Leek With Olive Oil

Zeytinyagli Pirasa Leek is one of the vegetables that many children hate eating. In Turkey, moms struggle a lot to have their children eat it. There becomes an invisible fight between moms an

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Open Sandwich with Tomato

Zerrin on 04 6, 2009 | 11 Comments

Open Sandwich with Tomato

Domatesli Kanepe I was working on this Sunday, so unfortunately we couldn’t have a big breakfast. You know it’s so important for me to have breakfast with a lot of items, it’s like a fe

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