You know this as rhubarb, ışkın or uşkın. Nowadays is in season and I found it on my trips to Erzurum, Van, Bitlis being sold as a street food-snack. This is from Van. Tastes like grass, green plum and spring flowers altogether. It is one my favorite snack and my…
If you go to Kars, there is unfortunately one place left making piti. Piti is a dish made from a chunk piece of lamb,chickpeas, saffron, a piece of tail fat, and a lot of beef stock. This simple but tasty dish, has a way of eating it. Piti is served…
…spicy, flirty, juicy, tasty, liver, do I need to say more?
…making of kadayıf… The thin dough poured over the hot copper plate by a custom made device with thin holes under it,while the plate is turned and when the dough just about to cook, he slows down the plate by hand and collects the cooked thin kadayıf dough by hand….
As Istanbul Food, it is our responsibility, our commitment to participate in this just war to stop the extinction of the Bosphorus fish Lüfer, our lüfer, the fish of the kings, the king of the fish! Lüfer is not just a fish to us, it is a moral value, a…
This is the photo of the week, I leave the rest to your imagination…
Let’s see… A couple of stairs, enter through the glass door, greeted by smiling faces, crowd is eating happily, yes again full, should I wait for a table at the terrace or anywhere, let’s see what is on the big board today… White table clothes and fresh flowers meet the…
Unlike many European countries in Turkey salty dishes are preferred as the first bites of the day. Cheese is the one main ingredients of breakfast tables along with olives, tomato, cucumber, honey or marmalade or jam, butter, bread and tea. Since Turkey has been affected by the demanding life conditions,…
Ikliçe, Mardin Çöreği, from Mardin, where half of roots are from. The smell takes you in, so smooth, sweet, so welcoming. The taste is like anything you have tasted before, coming from the milk and the spices used like mahaleb, fennel, clove and şahfe. This Mardin bread, baked at the…