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Madrid, tapas, memories, cervecas, loved ones and padron peppers! How I missed Madrid…
Madrid, tapas, memories, cervecas, loved ones and padron peppers! How I missed Madrid…
At my grandmother’s home, in the messy back yard, soon to be my friend, nettle stung me, thousands of times in the good old days, me in my shorts, running up and down, thought every green thing is innocent and my friend. Isırgan, literally meaning stinger, you do the maths….
Egeliler, some Cretan, some Greek, some Sephardic, some pure İzmirli… Wherever their roots go, does not matter, they love to eat everything coming out of earth like the buds of the trees, the leaves, the roots… They don’t like wasting anything. Çitlembik, çitlenbek, çitlenbik – celtis australis- is a tree…
Kaplan’ın Yeri in Tire İzmir is a phenomenon. Climbing up the hill, surrounded by olive trees and wild nature, you see cows, horses, goats… Passing the nice small village Kaplan, admiring the small streets, our jaws dropping cause the view, Tire laying under your feet and mother nature. Place full of…
No, we are not going to Hatay, yet it is another colorful pazar in İzmir. Up at the hills of İzmir, Hatay Pazarı was set up on Thursdays. Kekik 2 kinds -oregano and thyme-, karabaş -lavandula stoechas- on the right corner, for making tea… the locals say that it is good for…
I do not about know your house, but sure mine does not have two lovely ladies sitting infront making swiss chard dolma… They giggled when I took their picture, invited me over for dinner. In Anadolu, it is very common to gather around for preparing food, gossiping about the latest…
Tire kebabı, the butter is almost as good as the meat!
Today at lunch I had one of the best kokoreç dishes of my life… Post coming soon!
I could not resist when I saw this colorful page of istanbulfood.com in pinterest… Thank you all for pinning-liking-following-sharing-reading and yay! Cheers!