A sweet autumn noon, I took a bus to Oğuzeli to capture the the preparations for winter, wondering what is left out. After a bus drive for 40 minutes, I arrived the tiny town, without knowing it was such a small town… A little roundabout, baker, butcher, little grocery shop…
The coal smelling little village Ürgüp… The narrow small streets, old people, like a dead city actually, you see nobody, almost, till we get to pazar, the open air market. It was the late autumn and early winter, the stalls are full of homemade cheese, sun dried fruits, freshly picked…
The thin flaky piece, so simple it is a true sin. I present you katmer. A mini tiny ball of dough, pulled and pulled by hand, thrown on the air like a pizza disk, when it reaches its paper thin form, it is sprinkled with pinches of süt kaymağı or kaymak…
another simple and tempting taste from flour – sugar – oil… what else!
I recall the days, when I was a small girl with pony tails, my granny sending me to our neighbourhood baker to get the pide for dinner, before they break their fast. I got in the line, wait for the hottest, sweetest pide with money tucked in my hands. The…
Does not matter where you are, who you are, what you like to eat, bread is may be one common thing unite human beings. The shape does not matter, it always there, always will be. It is the main staple, it is the fertility of land, it is the one…
Sweet on wheels! While we were down at Mediterranean coast, Anamur, I ran into this magical street seller, while the others were visiting museum, it was a dream coming true, just the precise moment I was thinking of something sweet, just a bite, I saw this cart… It was more…
In Turkey, there are many kinds of food made from dough and gözleme is one of them. Gözleme is yufka, dough without yeast, hand rolled to thin and filled with many ingredients like, cheese, potatoes, mince meat, etc, folded and cooked on a sac, which a convex shaped burner made…
In Antakya katıklı or katıklı ekmek is an open face bread, aka pide, spread with the home made mixture of cheese, spices, pepper paste, olive oil, zahter. Every home has a different spread, some with more cheese, some with more pepper paste, but most basically the ingredients are the same,…