If you are from New England, you might have your own fish chowder recipe! Even I have two versions of the soup since I moved here more than a year ago! Now I am going to share the one which has leek in it! All the ingredients in the soup sound so good, so you…
I live in Massachusetts now. I am glad to start with a recipe that really belongs to here! After a long break, I am back again with lots of new recipes that have been tried so many times and reached to their last versions! But this recipe doesn’t need a several try! This is really…
Bakery / Breakfast / Food / Vegetarian
In Turkey while walking in the streets, you can see people sell sesame bagels. It is very common street food in Turkey. Recently some franchisor companies have opened fast food restaurants and sell only sesame bagels with many menu choices. One of the famous one is called “Simit Sarayi” (www.simitsarayi.com). If Turkish people start living…
This recipe is one of the best recipe for the eggplant lovers. Many people love eggplants in Turkey, but I am not sure if it is that much loved or common ingredient in US. So we have many recipes with this vegetable as main dishes or as side dishes. Before the summer ends it is…
Bakery / Food / Vegetarian
I will share delicious sesame biscuit recipe today. I actually have a difficulty to translate the name to English. I am sure when you saw the ingredients and photos, you can help me for naming the recipe. So I need help. These biscuits could go very well when it is tea time in the afternoon,…
This is a very famous and sweet dessert from Turkiye! I told you before. Since I moved to US, I started searching Turkish recipes, especially the recipes that comes first from the memory. Suddenly I found myself missing all the food from childhood, or very well known Turkish food. I first try Sekerpare as a…
I couldn’t find English name for the recipe I will share with you today. It may also be called Kol Boregi in Turkey. Now, I have been living in US for 2 months. When I was in Turkey I was kind of interested in foreign cuisines mostly Biritsh, American, German and following food blogs from…
When I saw cauliflower-feta fritters on the smittenkitchen blog, I remembered zucchini fritters which is more common in Turkey. We liked the fritters with zucchini, however cauliflower sounded very good for me too. Let’s try !! Ingredients: Small cauliflower, 250 gr. feta cheese, 1/2 all purpose flour, baking powder, salt, black pepper, garlic, 1 egg, olive…
I will give a quick dough recipe with yeast. I like the scones instead of breads with cheese especially in the breakfast. This time I have changed the usual dough a little bit and add some green ingredients like dill, green onion, parsley. The ingredients I have used for this recipe are very basic. I…
We have sunny and very hot weather today. In this hot weather it is really hard to cook. But I don’t want to miss this beatiful tomato season and I must go to farmer’s market today. Otherwise I would miss tomatos and the local farmer’s market. We have farmer’s market on every Saturday in my…
Here is another wonderful recipe that should be cooked regularly 🙂 Since the balls have strong onion taste, it could be preferred to eat in the dinner. I suggest you to eat it in the weekend afternoon. I don’t have too much time to cook several dishes for my dinners, I could only have the…
Yogurt soup is a very well known and loved soup in Turkey. When I intended to cook soup first time many years ago, I have tried yogurt soup and I remember I was not successful at that time. I realized that there should have been some tricks to follow during cooking. A few days ago,…
We had sunny weather today and I went to park to run. After such a long time (whole winter), I have finally started running with the nice weather. When I am back, I planned to eat something healthy and have some protein. I have checked the refrigrator and found necessary ingredients. I wish I could…
I am not sure about the reason but when I saw this recipe on food52, I decided to make it immidiately. It could be the ricotta that made me try. We don’t have ricotta in Turkey. Instead of ricotta we have lor. When I was back from Ayvalik, I have started using lor frequently and…
I am recently addicted to this scrambled egg called Menemen in Turkey. Actually my cousin did this to me. When I was in Istanbul visiting her, she took me and my friend to a nice small breakfast restaurant and we had Menemen. We all loved it and couldn’t forget the taste. By then I tried…
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