beetroot-borek1
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October 24, 2011, 12 Comments

You already know we have various boreks with various fillings in our cuisine. Cheese, mince and potato fillings are the most common ones. You can play with fillings according to …

purslane-borek2

Purslane Borek

June 13, 2011, 9 Comments

If you are following this blog for a while, you know how I am into boreks just like many people in my country. We can fill them with anything dependin ...

tahinicookies1

Tahini Cookies

April 28, 2011, 4 Comments

I found the pictures of these cookies in one of older files this morning and I remembered how soft they were. I made these a year ago and took some .. ...

puffpastry2

Fluffy Pastry

January 10, 2011, 41 Comments

While coming home from school by minibus today, I realized something that may be interesting for people out of Turkey. That is how we pay the fare. Yo ...

  • halfmoonborek18
    Halfmoon Borek
    October 24, 2010, 25 Comments

    A new small market was opened on our street last week. It’s great to see that such local markets are still alive. They have been like animals in danger of ...

  • borekmixed1
    Borek with Vegetables
    May 28, 2009, 17 Comments

    We saw an extraordinary vivacity in our neighborhood this evening. Some people were setting up a music system in front of our building, some were placing plastic chairs in the ...

  • cigarborek4
    Cigarette Borek
    April 2, 2009, 23 Comments

    Our national football team had a match with Spain yesterday. We love watching matches with friends, so we called some friends and invited them to watch the match together. They ...

  • sosyetemanti2
    High Society Manti
    March 31, 2009, 10 Comments

    I know I already have two different recipes of manti in my blog, but I tried this one for the first time and adore it. I learnt it from my ...

  • bazlama2
    Bazlama Bread
    March 22, 2009, 18 Comments

    This is a traditional bread, generally baked over wood fire in villages. When my grandpas were alive, we used to visit them  very often. They used to live in a ...

  • potatoborek5
    Borek with Potato
    March 20, 2009, 18 Comments

    Borek is one of my favorite Turkish pastries and it’s one of the most common pastries served to guests. I generally make borek at the weekend as a preperation for ...