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Category Archives: A Turkish Yearbook

A Turkish Year of shopping and cooking and enjoying seasonal recipes and eating what you feel like in the changing Aegean climate.

Rose Petal Jam

I bought some rose jam from the Farmers Market in the village the other weekend and it went down a storm with our guests. They basically bought all they could find to take back to Canada with them and, as is usual here, once something…

Rose Petal Jam

This Week in Kirazli – 29th May 2011

It’s been a great week – we’ve had really lovely guests staying (we are so lucky in the guests we have come to stay), all the animals have been lavished with more attention than frankly they deserve, the weather has been great apart from the…

This Week in Kirazli – 29th May 2011

This week in Kirazli – 18th May 2011

I got up early this morning and cut back the spring flowering plants that are just about past their best, giving the newly planted peppers and tomatoes room to grow. This is the first year I have planted anything more edible than a herb but…

This week in Kirazli – 18th May 2011

Playing Tourist

I have lived my whole life in tourist destinations, from beautiful Pembrokeshire to the Costa Del Sol, from the Mayan Riviera to the Turkish Aegean, and I am lucky to have lived like that and it isn’t that I take the places I have lived…

Playing Tourist

The week in Kirazli – April 30th 2011

It’s all been a bit busy this week and I haven’t had time to blog or even comment on my favourite blogs, between guests getting rained on and house viewings and guest changeovers and lots of cooking it’s been unusually hectic. And now to top…

The week in Kirazli – April 30th 2011

Test Kitchen Week

A new season is starting and I’ve spent the week playing with recipes and testing new stuff. Most worked, but one really didn’t and even Nick refused to eat it (Shadow liked it!). Also, my daughter and her hungry boyfriend arrive soon and as food…

Test Kitchen Week

Citrus Season

We are up to our eyeballs in lemons! It is that time of year when lemons are everywhere and you can’t give them away and funnily enough despite being a store cupboard staple in the form of juice there aren’t really many recipes that call…

Citrus Season

This is March

We had a sudden cold spell that had us relighting the soba and marvelling at the few frozen pellets of snow that swirled around the village, then came the welcome warmth that had the young goats frisking in the streets and the old ladies in…

This is March

A Turkish Year

It is now five and half years since we came to the valley and my image library grows increasingly huge with each passing month – thank God for huge back up drives! You learn a lot by living here for five years, you learn what…

A Turkish Year

Chestnut and Mushroom Soup with garlic croutons

This is a lovely warming winter soup which has a rich deep flavour and also uses up the glut of chestnuts we have at the moment. I’ve had half a kilo of chestnuts sitting on the windowsill mocking me for the last fortnight and I…

Chestnut and Mushroom Soup with garlic croutons

On the market this week – January 2011

Selcuk market on Saturday was heaving in the bright winter sunlight and it was mid afternoon by the time we got there so between wriggling through the crowds, dodging the camels and bumping into at least three other photographers I didn’t get as many pictures…

On the market this week – January 2011

Turkish Creole Christmas Cake

For twenty years (gulp!) I have been making Delia Smith’s Creole Christmas Cake. It’s so moist and so full of fruit it is more a pudding than a traditional cake and for people who don’t really “do cake” it makes a more acceptable finish to…

Turkish Creole Christmas Cake

For the first Sunday of Advent – Lubkuchen

I was stressed this morning from reading insane things on internet forums and so I took out my foul temper on some harmless cloves and cinnamon sticks and battered them to their component molecules for inclusion in the recipe. Cooking is very therapeutic. After battering…

For the first Sunday of Advent – Lubkuchen

An International Advent

Obviously Christmas doesn’t officially happen here, this being a Muslim country and all that. But Christmas is nothing if not a combination of the myths, cultures, legends and traditions of many creeds and countries even if the name that the holiday currently enjoys comes from…

An International Advent

Fruity Goat Tagine and Pomegranate Couscous

I thought I must have been looking particularly scruffy and needy lately when one of the neighbours brought me a gift of goat meat at Kurban Bayram. Then I remembered her son had recently got married and the gift of money and coffee cups I…

Fruity Goat Tagine and Pomegranate Couscous

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