10th of january
Kurban bayram

Heheheh Tiny my friend it is not 'most complicated and long winded version' at all. Believe me I prepare this coffee in less than two minutes(of course after water boils). And it is my pleasure to watch the foam rising up all those times.

Well this is the way of making turkish coffe from the Ottoman Empire while Bosnia was under Turkish rule (1463-1878) hihi ...my grand mother taught me..he rgrandmother taught her and so on...
I wanted to share this old way of making turkish coffee (and traditional here in my country) ..

But instead of coffee pot it is better to use 'cezve' long-handled pot for making Turkish coffee (cezve is made of copper) and it hase better taste in 'copper coffee pot' than when you make it in usual cofee pot.

And here are some advantages for not adding sugar in water (AlphaF):

First** when sugar boils beraber with water and coffee, coffee loses its original taste (chemical reasons do not ask me why)

Second***it is much easier to please your friends, why, well everyone's taste is different , for some of them it could be çok çok şekerli for some of them it can be very bitter(acı and after that they wont ever drink your coffee.
And it is more polite when you ask while serving : do you like more şekerli or less, how much dou you want me to put in your cup one or two teaspon?


Preparing, serving, and drinking coffe should be delightfull.

One more thing: you should always have a sugar pot filled with some pieces of cube sugar couse some of bayanlar like having ‘keyif’ while drinking coffee(like me mesela hehe)

Here is my way of making turkish coffee

If you want to make 4 cups of coffe

1. add 4,5(**not 4) cups water into the pot and let it boil
2. into the coffe pot add 1,5 teaspoon of cofee per one cup of water(so for four cops of coffe put 6 teaspoon of coffee)
3. when the water is ready(when start to boil) put coffee pot on the stovetop to get warm not to much(obout 10 seconds) than boiled water pour into cofee pot(you should hear the sound at the moment when you pour boiled water into the coffee pot, cose there is a special sound when boiled water mix with heated coffee)
4. do not stir coffee yet!!!!!!!
5. also do not add any of sugar
6. let it boil again(let foam appear towards the top of the pot/be careful)
7. take coffee pot over the stovetop (to let foam down) and put it again on te stove to boil, repeat this action 3 times
8. remove the pot from the heat(pour some drops of cold water) and set it aside for a minute or two to cool, this allows the coffee grinds to settle on the bottom of the pot.
9. than gently stir foam and put some of foam to each of cups and than add coffee into cups
10. what about sugar?????????? Well everyone is taking as much sugar as needed, somebody like more sugar somebody don't, so you are free to take as much as you like (usually we drink it with cube sugar)

enjoy the coffee

Selam clasmates'im 

Could someone pls explain me how to say in Turkish
'their mom' ***
'their house'
'their houses'

when I say 'evimiz' without using (bizim) I alredy kow that means 'our house', but how can I say 'their house' without using (onların) is it possible?
'our house' ....(bizim) evimiz
'our houses'....(bizim) evlerimiz
'their house'.......?
'their houses'...... ?

ohh kafam karıştı.....

I don't know cyrano but I think 'cut off the lines' in this msg means telefonu kapatmak

...just occasionally called me at night or during the day, but always kept silent and then cut off the lines...
.... geceleri ve gündüzün arasıra beni aradığında hep sessiz duruyorsun ve telefonu kapatıyorsun....