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A few September pictures

Crappy weeks happen even in Kirazli and with sad news about the cancer of a much loved friend in America and car problems and a bout of homesickness (yes it happens, even after years!) it has been a pretty crappy week. So I took Shadow…
  • A few September pictures

Stone Baked Pizza – without a wood fired oven

I am not averse to Domino’s Pizza, in fact I love Domino’s and their permanent two for one offer down in Kusadasi is a traditional treat we give ourselves at the end of every dental patient’s treatment – weird but there you go! But it…
  • Stone Baked Pizza – without a wood fired oven

You say Tortilla, I say Frittata – either way it’s a result for leftovers

I’m pretty good at making something out of nothing on the food front which is just as well because fast food doesn’t happen in the village and a sudden snack urge can leave you very frustrated with nothing more exciting than a fried egg sarnie.…
  • You say Tortilla, I say Frittata – either way it’s a result for leftovers

Sweet Fruit – Grape Jam and Spicy Fig Jam

Making jam is easy; it’s like chemistry for beginners; if you boil stuff it reduces so boiling sugar and fruit produces a thick syrup and a complex carbohydrate in the fruit called pectin makes it set. Some fruits have more pectin in than others; plums,…
  • Sweet Fruit – Grape Jam and Spicy Fig Jam

The reward of a morning on my feet

After a morning on my feet peeling grapes and stirring jam the result is an afternoon snack poolside that makes it worth the effort! I’ll write up the recipes later but they are pretty easy and with free figs and grapes from the neighbours cost…
  • The reward of a morning on my feet

It’s a Dirty Job But Someone Has To Do It.

The septic tank man really doesn’t want to speak to me. He scuttled off in horror last time he came to empty the septic tank and I answered the door….talk about shit with a female, especially a foreign one….Noooo! So my friend Nick has to…
  • It’s a Dirty Job But Someone Has To Do It.

Sweet Roast Peppers – Too pretty to eat

Now is the season of the pepper glut. The neighbour’s are slicing them and drying them on the flat roofs and I decided to roast some with garlic. They make a lovely meze or side dish and are best served at room temperature so the…
  • Sweet Roast Peppers – Too pretty to eat

Cauliflower Cheese – How prosaic is that!

I live on the ancient spice road, the very air is full of the smell of spices drying, and every neighbour’s wall is festooned with bundles of herbs and strings of peppers. So what the hell am I doing cooking something as prosaic as Cauliflower…
  • Cauliflower Cheese – How prosaic is that!

A Sweet Turkish Tale

I have a lady staying here at the moment, she’s here to edit her book and she hasn’t bothered hiring a car and when she wants to go down to town in the evening she hops on a Dolmus. When she returns from Kusadasi and…
  • A Sweet Turkish Tale
Grapes

A Turkish Yearbook – Being a Foodie in rural Turkey

I love food, I really really love food, (hey, these hips don’t lie!) and since moving full time to Turkey I have rediscovered my love of cooking and sidelined my love of perusing menus. For a British girl used to an endless choice of cuisines…
  • A Turkish Yearbook – Being a Foodie in rural Turkey

This Week in Kirazli – 16th August 2010

Well silly season is upon us, it is the height of summer and downtown the tourists are soaking up the sun on the beaches all day and partying all night – some rather more indiscreetly than others, as a couple from Belgium were photographed humping…
  • This Week in Kirazli – 16th August 2010

Samos – Surly under the Sun

I’ve always liked Samos, it is green and pretty and has enough dramatic scenery to keep me entranced with sweeping views of pine clad mountains falling towards bright seas of banded blue. Being a quick ferry trip from Kusadasi it is also for us the…
  • Samos – Surly under the Sun

Back from Samos

Well I am back in the valley after a few days hauling myself around the Greek island of Samos. Samos was beautiful but weird and with a very bad atmosphere so it’s a relief to be back in my valley! A full report on Samos…
  • Back from Samos

A minor obsession with Sunflowers

I got up early yesterday morning and as the temperature had dropped below 30 degrees I took my camera for a walk around the valley and got a bit obsessed with sunflowers. Sunflowers bowing to the sun rising over Gul Dar Poor lonley sunflower! Sunflower…
  • A minor obsession with Sunflowers

This Week in Kirazli – 16th July 2010

Well I’m back from two frantic weeks in the UK.  On 3rd July I went to my daughter Naomi’s graduation at St David’s Cathedral which was really awe inspiring, – how many 21 year olds get to have their graduation ceremony in a 6th Century…
  • This Week in Kirazli – 16th July 2010
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