İncir Reçeli, unripe fig jam and the gypsies
You may see gypsy ladies peeling and selling unripe figs, in bulk amounts, their fingers are wounded by the figs’ milk, wrapping their fingers with the best possible way, with nylon bags…
Plum wars kicking in!
Erik, green plum is one of my favorite fruits in this food world of mine. Starting from early May and ending late September plum has many different varieties, color, taste,…
Just now, döner so good!
What if I took a little detour, a girl has to eat, right! 1,5 portions döner over homemade pide, green peppers, pickles and ayran… Now I can go back to…
Balls of heaven at Meşhur Filibe Köftecisi
Fashionably late… I was surprised that I did not write about my favorite köfteci before. So I dig my photo archive for some matching photos it felt stupid, after all…
Just now – Tapas Tapas Tapas
Madrid, tapas, memories, cervecas, loved ones and padron peppers! How I missed Madrid…
Nettle will bite you back!
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…
Çitlembik… say what?
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…
Running up the hills for…
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…
Just Now – Seasonal Kebabs
As if we needed any motive to eat, me and Katie celebrated the sesonal kebabs today. The sarımsak -the fresh bulb of garlic- and yeni dünya -loquat or medlar- kebabı at Çiya…
Just the right season for İzmir, Hatay Pazarı
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…
Büryan at Siirt Şeref Büryan Salonu, İstanbul
One morning, I rushed in the restaurant asking for ribs as if I was starving, Şeref Usta told me to come back at 11.30am, hence it is still cooking… But…
My kind of hero – Yumcha Heroes, Berlin
I love love love dim sum. But who doesn’t? The morning we landed and left our luggage to our hotel, we rushed to our first reservation in Berlin. Yumcha Heroes…