Cauliflower, according to Mark Twain is nothing but cabbage with a college education, and my household only likes its salad. Each autumn season I relentlessly try a different recipe hoping that this time around my family would like this vitamin and phosphor rich vegetable. If you feel like I do, you would love this recipe.
Anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant characteristics of turmeric is a bonus with this meal.
tags cauliflower, garlic, turmeric
There is a Black Sea proverb :
-Do not be fooled with the size of an anchovy, it is from a very crowded family.
Just like our home...
Our household loves fish, but they don't want the house to smell fish. Steaming and roasting are the least smelling alternatives. This basic Turkish Black sea fish can be cooked in thousand different ways. I take my dear friend Onur's advice and cook the simplest. To be honest this fish is so tasty that it does not need anything else.
tags anchovy
I love making ice cream with real sugar and clotted cream, because the taste is much better this way.
I had problems with melting the sahlep. One day I was watching Türkmax Gurme channel's "comes from within" program, Chef Yunus Emre Akkor talked about the key point on the matter. Nobody could stop me after that.
tags sahlep, sugar, milk
Gıda “Endüstrisi”, keşfetmeden yıllar önce nar ekşisi ile tanıştığımda, nerelerde kullanabileceğimi denemekten çok keyif almıştım. Ekşiydi, yoğundu, derindi, balzamik sirkeyi andırıyordu. İlk olarak salata sosunda kullanmıştım. Bugün reçel yaparken limon suyu yerine bile kullanıyorum. 🙂
Once it started showing on market shelves, our guests visiting All Sports Cafe started asking for it. Unfortunately they all thought that our molasses was dark, sour and too thick to their liking. What they did not know was that they were buying and using molasses made with glucose syrup, consistency additives, color, pectin, caramel, sodium, benzoate (E211), citric acid, etc etc added, where they nearly forgot the real pomegranate molasses. As in all the products where sugar is added, this product also found it's way in people's taste preferences on the wrong side.
The real (Can say true, traditional or of it's own if you want) pomegranate molasses are made from sour pomegranates, which in fact are wild. Can extract 1 liter of molasses from 10 to 15 kilograms of pomegranates. End up being something expensive, but using 1-2 teaspoons would be enough.
We have a riddle on pomegranates, "Bought one from the market and when I got home it looked like thousands". With that in mind, know that there are various brands of molasses on shelves. Just check the product name, read the ingredients and if you see anything other than pomegranates, please do not buy.
During the last days to find fresh cranberry bean, I felt like sharing this meal with you that we had all summer. The way I did during the season was to buy a couple of kilos, shell them, boil them for 5 minutes, put them into zipper bags and freeze. This way you can cook pilaki from fresh beans whenever you want.
Because it has garlic in its recipe, it differs from all the other olive oil dishes we have. They say that the roots go to the Balkans. Fish and seafood pilaki were also meals very common in the Ottoman kitchen.
Ben şeker yerine bal kullanıyorum, deneyin derim. 🙂
tags cranberry bean, red pepper paste, tomato, carrot, potato, garlic, onion, italian pepper
This nutritious, tasty and low cost meal has a special place in the kitchens of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh. I changed the recipe a little to our palate's taste and easy to find ingredients in our markets.
I usually buy pulse like dried beans or dried black-eye peas in 1 kilogram bags. When I get home I soak the whole package and let it swell overnight. Next day I wash them with clean (drinkable) water, and boil with 1 whole onion and 2-3 garlic cloves. After straining, I mix 1-2 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil and let it cool. When it gets to room temperature, I put aside what I need for cooking, and the rest goes into 2 cup portions of zipper bags and into the freezer. With this stock, I can make Turkish bean salad piyaz or bean based olive oil dish pilaki, dhal or any other meat & pulse combination my heart desires.
tags black-eyed pea, dhal, tomato, potato, garlic, onion, gingerBu sayfa her telden çalar. 🙂
Çoğu zaman derinlemesine bilgi verir. Bazen gıda ile ilgili takıldığım konulara ışık tutar. Arada yaptıklarımı ve yaşadıklarımı paylaşır.
When my next door neighbor Yonca, in a typical hallway talk, asked me whether I ever tried artichoke with cranberry. So I decided to use the artichoke I bought from the farmers market in line with her suggestion.
Genellikle, marketlerde ve kuru yemişçilerde satılan o pırıl pırıl, koyu kırmızı kuru yabanmersini şekerle işlenmiş oluyor. Ben de mümkün olduğu kadar kendi kullandığımın üstüne bir de gizli şekerleri eklememeye çalıştığım için kuru mavi yemiş kullanmaya karar verdim. Hem mayhoşluğuyla hem de kattığı hafif morumsu renkle enginara çok yakıştı. 🙂
tags pearl onion, artichoke, blueberry
If you cook this original Belgian Seaman's food with meaty and larger mussels it becomes even tastier.
Did you know that the people who have the monopoly over the mussel with rice filling (midye dolması) market and the people who made it a vastly appreciated street food all over Turkey are from the same city? There are many rumors telling us why......İt is our distinguished all land city with no sea connection whatsoever MARDİN.....
Make sure that the mussels are grown in clean waters and that they are fresh. To check the freshness, tap the mussel that's open, it should close by itself.
tags mussel, wine, garlic, onion
The most common use of this fruit in the Turkish cuisine, which has a solid place in our memories as the carriage Cinderella rode in, is the famous pumpkin dessert.
Pumpkin has potassium, phosphor, calcium, magnesium, sodium, and iron, and it is used in the world kitchens in various ways. Halvah in the Middle East and India, as side dish mixed with other vegetables in Australia and New Zealand, smaller ones as tempura in Japan, soup in Vietnam, mixed with cheese as ravioli fillings in Italy, and many other sweet or salty varieties. It is a symbol of Halloween in the US, and it is a must for thanksgiving tables as a tart.
I love mücver, but because the generally accepted way of cooking by frying is too greasy to my taste I prefer to use the oven. I just wanted to share this recipe which is the end result of my R&D, just when we are in pumpkin season.
tags pumpkin, pomegranate molasses, garlic, whole wheat flour, kashari cheese, egg, ginger
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