We will have today ,

Pilav with vegetables
Creamy Tomato Basil Soup
Beef liver,and burger for those who won't eat the liver'like me,,lol'
Salata
Portakal suyu

And Mango as a fruit

What will you have today ?

tost, bir bardak süt ve belki kruasonlar..heheheh

hee hee, ok leaving the lunch for later on

İnspired with this Süt idea
Having now, buzlu kahvele süt lol great in this weather he hee

hehe..i was onna bout breakfast i havn't even started on dinner..

Rice with some sort of sauce, a lot of vegetables, cashew nuts and meat (chicken will do!).

Thinking to have

Makarna with little minced meat on it
Biftek
Salata
Juice,but not fresh,i don't have it now,,lol
Soup, but which one goes with makaroni ?any suggestions ?

Or is it hot enough and better skip the soup part ??

We are having spaghetti bolognese tonight! We alternate our meals!
We had mucver, pilau, salata, borulyce and ekmek of course on our last Turkish meal!

We'll have today over lunch..hmmm late lunch lol

Grilled fish
Fried fish too
Red rice
Yogurt salata,and Tahina salata too

Mango fruits after that

Now,i am making chips,,, want some ?? lol

İf you tell me what is musaka,i will tell you if i want some or not ..lol

İ can see why,,lol

We make same too,rice,vegetables'carrot,grean beans,green pepper,are my favorite,and minced beaf mean 'i prefer beaf' then we cover them with bachmel sauce

İt be yummy too,i love it and macaroni and minced meat with bachmel as well

Ohh,,,İ AM HUNGRY NOWWW,,lol

ohhh pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee,
dont post any topic about food,i think im geting fat.....

Ohhhh,thx sophie, you are an angel

You can have half my Kola its freezing and wonderful...errrmmmmm you can drink regular one,or diet ??

We are talking drinks now,not food ...lol

Sophie, are you on diet before eating or after? Better to be after

And I made karniyarik(stuffed eggplants with ground beef)


and Börek


I would be happy to have all of you here. Table is set!
Afiyet olsun!

lol,maybe she is on diet,during eating,,,lol

Ohhh,it looks yummy here bliss,
mmm,thinking,there is a meal still after dinner,right ??
Then i still can join ,,lol

There is a meal after dinner and strong turkish tea.
Hurry up!!!
Pijama party, girls! And Gossip...

Well I've had a long day at work - then discovered a broken mug in the road outside my house......unfortunately I discovered it by driving over it and ripping a hole in the tyre!!!

So I haven't been bothered to cook......
Bought a big bag of chips for FlossDog and myself to share - so we had chip butties together

Then I had a sucuk sandwich - no way FlossDog is getting sucuk

Ooo I hate "girly" evenings. PJs, gossip, make-up and food - so .... right up your street then Bod!

Can I share it next week? ! I am finally off my 10 day Maple Syrup Lemonade Master Cleanse and am feeling wonderful but craving bad food again !

Sophie mou,
Did you get so mad at me that you don't offer me just a little piece?
I was just courious when you're dieting, before or after

I know you love this and I made this especially for you.
Will you forgive me, please and share mussaka with me?



And this is for you too

I am not only good cook but can read minds as well.
Afiyet olsun!
But do not eat alone, wait for Sophie!!!

I think she is not.
Why she has to. She is in great shape.

Look...

Heyyy, where is my recipe ??

İ am fasting today,and i want to make a good meal on Eftar ' when we break our fast'

Hmmm i don't really know should we fast today or not,but i did till i ask my friend ,,lol

Can you share a recipe for a yummy meal with me ???

Hey, Canly, give me a minute and I will write for you, just tell me what you want.

lol,when fasting,you think you can eat an elephant,,lol

Ok,here we go,
İ want soup
main dish,salata,and this yummmy mussaka ,and Köfte or kebab will be great too,,,hmmm come to think about it,i can have both köfte and kebap,,,lol

blisssss...i am waitinggggg,,lol

Sorry Canly, was away. Will prepare your menu soon .

Thx bliss , you are so sweet

Canli, here is
KEBAB WITH EGGPLANT - Patlicanli Kebab
5 Servings
1 kilo lamb meat
2 glasses of water
2 onions
2 soup spoons butter
2 tomatoes (or 1/2 coffee cup tomato sauce)
4 small eggplants
salt, pepper

Peel and cut the eggplants lengthwise into 4 pieces, then each quarter in 3 cm. long pieces. Soak the eggplant pieces in well salted water for 1/2 hour. Then squeeze them and fry them in a frying pan where the butter and some oil have been heated. Remove them from the frying pan and put aside.

Then, in the same frying pan, partially cook the meat for 3 or 4 minutes, then put it all in a saucepan where the kebab will be cooked. In the frying pan, brown the onion that has been halved and cut into fine slices. Add the peeled, diced tomatoes (or the tomato sauce diluted in a half glass of water). Stir for one minute. Add a coffee spoon of pepper, a soup spoon of salt, 2 glasses of hot water, the tomatoes and onions to the meat in the saucepan. Cook for about 1 and 1/2 hours until the meat becomes soft. Add the previously cooked eggplant to the saucepan and cook 30 to 40 minutes more.



And you can get your Kofte here:
http://turkishcook.com/turkishfoodforum/photos/kofte/picture104.aspx

Hope you like it. More to come. Afiyet olsun!

Tşk ederim bliss,
Looks yummy,i will try them,and looking forword to the other recipes

Ive never cooked turkish food at home although I love it and thought it was about time to give it a try. I have some recipes and would like to know what sort of glass we are talking about when recipe says '1 (or 2 or 3) glasses of water (or meat stock or whatever). Pint glasses? wine glasses? tea glasses? - could someone please tell me.

Thanks in advance

Tea glasses, its about 200 to 250 ml

Oh - thanks very much. Food would have been a bit watery if I had used a pint glass as a measure!

yeah,i guess so,and would be ruined too

Merhaba
Bügun biz yemek köfte, made with spices we brought back from Turkiye, along with cacik ve kırmızi şarap. çok güzel......

What is the Turkish soup ?

Tavuk sehriye

hhhmmmm I am struggling what to have for iftar, it is either tavuk güveç or köfte (halal meat of course!) I might go with the köfte and maybe add some dolma as a side dish and I might just invite my good friend Musti to join me. seeing as I know him so well and I know we like the same foods. What do you say for the invite musti?

well..kai...you know very well that i'll NEVER REFUSE SUCH INVITATION!!!!!!!!!!! espicially if it was about yummmmmy turkish food that we used to have in Iraq..! ! !
be ready kai..
i'm coming!!!!!!!

We have today,
Grilled fish
Red Pilav
Yoghurt Salata
Tea with mint
Then Brownies....yummyyy

Well,only if got some help from Susie,bliss,sophie,.. ect,then we'll open a TC home delivery section..lol
İ'm not very good at cooking,but im good on picking what to cook,and eat,,lol

Day is finished,so im having now,
Creamy Tomato Basil Soup.
So lovely,specially when weather is cold.
Serving 4,

INGREDIENTS

4 tomatoes - peeled, seeded and diced
4 cups tomato juice
14 leaves fresh basil
1 cup heavy whipping cream
1/2 cup butter
salt and pepper to taste


DIRECTIONS

-Place tomatoes and juice in a stock pot over medium heat. Simmer for 30 minutes. Puree the tomato mixture along with the basil leaves, and return the puree to the stock pot.

-Place the pot over medium heat, and stir in the heavy cream and butter. Season with salt and pepper. Heat, stirring until the butter is melted. Do not boil.

Oh Canli that sounds good! I was going to make French Onion soup but may change my mind now!!!

Ohh,it got really a great flavor girlee,tasty,and its very rich too.
İ do recommend it really.
You can find its picture here,and thats btw,is a very great site too,i almost used daily for new recopies.

All recopies

enchiladas!!

falafel tortilla with salad

Also adding....penut butter and jelly sandwhiches

I think I might have afkhadh al-dijaj bil-teen tomorrow

so....how many am I cooking for?

We had domatasi çorba earlier, looking forward to jacket potatoes, salmon en croute, brocolli and peas later!
I've got some lovely butter for the spuds!

Kahve, sade poğaça, erik marmelatı, beyaz peynir. Akşam yemeği için. Türkiye'de kahvaltı her saatte yenir.

for breakfast, fruit, yoghurt and honey
for lunch mixed bean salad
for dinner tabbouleh with halloumi cheese

We'll have today

Dolma,fried köfte,soup with vegetables,fried potatoes,and yogurt salad.

will have what wife cooked,hope she doesn't let us hungry

İm sorry Elham,kind of late,but you know what do they say
Better late than never

Here you are,
Dolma

And you would find many nice recipes too in arabic if you like.

Btw,i dont use potato at the bottom of the pan,i use onion and carrot,and tomato slides,and green peper if it wasnt included in the dolma and i dont use tomato paste,i use all fresh tomato.

As for Turkish,they almost make it same,but they use Zeytin sağ,olive oil

DOLMAS! my kaynana makes the best! She and her husband work together to make them. They are not too oily (like the neighbors). She also adds something red to it, maybe it is a touch of tomato paste? I think she said kirmizi biber...just a touch....really great! I stuffed my self full of them last time I was there! Dolmayim (can I say that?) ben dolma gibi...maybe!

Noone ever can make any kind of DOLMA and SARMA like the woman makes in CANDELA GARDEN in Cihangir... better than my mom does, i have to be objective!

its amazing... oh my god! i have missed it alot...

oooooooh maaaaaaan grape leaf dolma .. sluuuuuurp .. makes me hungry .. I need to get my friend to make me some .. she has more time than I do .. lol

Ben Kentucky Fried Tavuk Yedim. çok güzel olmuşti.

I went to lunch with my brother and had Indian food. It was my first time experiencing it and now my whole office smells like curry including me.

Dolma 'Zucchini, Long White Eggplants, Green Peppers',and grilled steak,yogurt salad,and green salad maybe !

Rocket and spinach salad in a balsamic dressing topped with chargrilled vegetables and goats cheese. Yummmmmy

if I work on a meal for so long, I wouldnt like to eat it.

Yeah you be too tiered to eat hee hee
Bit of advice,eat while making it

mmmmmmmmmmmmm...yummy yummy!! all this talk a bout food makes me starving!!  IM SO HUNGRY!! (i think ill go get a snack now)

oh yeah i noticed that turkish cuisine is very much like arabic almost exact!! and this is the 100 th comment on this thread yaaaaaay!!

I totally agree with you, Doudi, Turkish and arabic cuisine have similarities.

Al akl ´ala kadd el mahabeh - literally, "the food equals the affection".

Salam Aleikum, r.

Ahlan Wa Sahlan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR1SVjJMLh8

İftar will be,

İndian pilav ´curry and vegetables´

Meat with brown sauce

Soup OF COURSE

Salata ´green salad´

Lots and LOTS of drinks ´oriental drinks´

Hoşaf ´date included in it´

Mmmmm,make it döner kebap ´home made of course´ instead of the meat

Whatever in the fridge will have it for İftar !

İ have also bun rice vermicelli,anyone has quick recipe for it ? 

No not for that, but since I returned from Turkey I´ve been perfecting my pilav skills.  I quite like a mixture of 2 prts rice and 2 parts bulgar.  I then toss anything in that I like . . . fresh parsley, coriander, onion, a little red and/or green pepper (the naughty ones as my friend calls them), bell peppers, salt, black pepper . . . . and so on

Oh I don´t think I should be talking about food at this moment, it´s making me hungry!!!!

 İ didnt know we can cook bulgar with rice,usually we cook bulgar alone,and eat it like rice

İ will try it tomorrow i think,it can goes with steak

But today i made that Rice vermicelli with vegetables and soya sauce,wish it will turn out good !

5 mins left on Ezan for İftar,so it is BETTER be good

1 minute......

 Neither did I     I decided to experiment.  Actually I didn´t give the right amounts . . . I meant to type 2 parts rice and 1 part bulgar (not 2 parts bulgar).  I fried the chopped onion before adding the rice.  I hate raw onion but love it cooked.

When cooking very large amounts of pilav a friend (Iraqi) of mine covers the bottom of the pan with sliced potatoes, to prevent the rice sticking/burning.  These potatoes are delicious too

I just had the most delicious German hering salad, ingredients: finely chopped sour hering pieces, very small pieces of cooked potatoes, sweet dill pickles and pickled red beets, fresh onion, all finely chopped. Add a bit boullion, lemon and very little oil.

http://www.bettyrocker.net/2007/05/heringsalat-herring-salad.html

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HERRING SALAD (German Heringsalat, Low Saxon Heernsalaad) comes in two basic varieties: white and red. It consists of diced Bismarck herring and diced pickled cucumber, sometimes diced cooked and pickled celeriac as well. Red herring salad has the addition of diced cooked and pickled beets. All this is tossed in mayonnaise. Using sour cream instead of mayonnaise results in what is considered Swedish or Scandinavian herring salad. Herring salad tends to be a part of buffets and is eaten as a side dish, as an hors d’euvre or on dark bread for lunch, for supper or as a snack. It can be bought ready made in virtually all North German food stores and is available wherever fish snacks are sold as well as at any restaurant that serves traditional local fare. Try it on Vollkornbrot, a dark whole grain bread baked at low temperature.

Rollmops (Courtesy RaBoe and Wikimedia Commons)

 Thans PT,i made it,and it came out nice

İ also fried the onion,and the green pepper but just a little,and it turned out nice really

But i didnt try the potatoes thing tho,some people here do this when making dolma for same reason ,we usually add slices of tomato ,onion,greet pepper,carrot,and what ever you want at the bottom  to add scent,taste to it,but we dont eat them.

 You´re welcome.  Those vegetables you don´t eat would form the basis of a nice soup if you blended them

Köfte with broccoli and potatoes cooked in water with ´acı biber salçası´ and some chicken stock left from last dinner, with yoghurt-garlic sauce and salçalı butter.

Sütlaç and an apple from a relative´s garden for dessert.

A sixpack of Beypazarı soda and a bag of ´Jelibon´ whilst studying, pistachio and beer for when I´m done

Phew, that´s an awesome meal... now I see why you always complained about my cooking skills (or lack thereof... )

 I mostly liked the last part But the meal was prepared fast, so Im happy! The thing I hate most is that preparing it takes me so long But now I just buy lots of minced meat and prepare the köfte all at once and put it in the freezer in 1 person portions

A breakthrough in Turkish student brunch

Couldn´t decide whether to fry an egg or heat up some lentil soup I had left. Finally I heat up the soup in a small frying pan and then broke an egg above it

Tonight I´ll probably have some Chinese take out. Has been a looooong time!

 you broked an egg above lentil soup???

is this an african still? I havent heard it before

 Me neither It gets kind of like a poached egg in soup and it tastes good

 it doesnt sound goodç u should learn how to cook turkish meal but dont destroy them

 Who cares Its called Fusion Cooking See it even has a name What is also nice, kuru fasulye with bacon You make dessert from chicken breast and flowers, why not put an egg in soup (which, by the way, is a common thing to do, only the egg is put in stirring so it only leaves small parts for structure. I learnt this from a mother of a friend, I forgot the name of the soup but it contained potatoes and meatballs rolled in flour )

And besides, I make real good Mercimek Çorbası

Today we´re having pierogi with minced meat. I spent over an hour yesterday making them (no, not the ones in the picture) and they´d better be good (I also made some with spinach but they´re gone already )

DK - In Poland you often use an egg to thicken a soup (a mix of flour+cream+water works as well). And some soups are served with boiled eggs in them

Some tips ?

Pierogi, ohh delicious!! Please send some to my place!

i just bought few bags of those meat pockets from store (a´ 500gr or smth) - my son´s favourites are with chicken they say the idea  came from russia though  ehh, who cares as long as they taste good

I used to hate lentil soups when I was a kid, but the ones at the turkish restaurant are really good. Are they hard to make? I´ll look at the recipe thread, you might have posted a recipe there.

Kızartma, (patates, biber ve patlıcan kızartması

 No, actually it`s quit easy to make and it doesn`t take that much time either

I just cooked mercimek 

I will prepare lahmacun on Saturday..party time///

Karides 

 mniam...look great ....thank you for idea what i will cook tomorrow...im not eating meat for now but i`ll make some deviation from the rule

can I come at lunch..I will wash dishes..after..I promise

Kaşarlı pide

ohh..it looks ..mmm..I am hungry be mercy

İn evening balık ızgara

canım you are killing me softly