Before I add the onions to the boiling water with lentils, I bake the onions in a frying pan a bit, together with birer tatlı kaşığı biber ve domates salçası, a teaspoon black pepper, karabiber and at the end just a tiny bit of mint.

Also, after adding these to the lentils, a bit of salt and a tablespoon rice.

This is how Kadirs mum taught me.

Btw if you let it boil long enough (or use a düdüklü) you dont need to smooth it with a blender.

Brandy - Sittin' up in my room

I am thinking that it was nice to come here again, just to see how I got mentioned twice in the same thread

Sophie, I am not totally gone I am just tired of the useless offensive discussions that I used to join but now, living in another country which makes me both wonder about Turkey and Holland, I feel like I am the last one to comment on something. Having enough trouble to form an opinion about the way things are going in Turkey, reflecting them upon the way I was raised..
Once I get into university, some days will start to become monotone again and I think that at that day I will escape back to TC

Aenigma x, thanks for your compliment But now that English, which has always been my second language, has become my first language.. I see how much I dont know! It is amazing how hard it is to make a language your first one! But having more trouble with making Turkish my second one for just now

olalı = since it was

For example the song of Sezen Aksu:

İstanbul, İstanbul olalı
Hiç görmedi böyle keder.

(Ever) since İstanbul is İstanbul
She has not seen such sorrowç


I am not sure though, if in other cases than the verb 'to be', it needs a repition. For example.. 'Gitti gideli' or just 'gideli'. I am confused because I have heard 'Gitti gideli' used..

Just realized that I dıdnt read careful enough You're already there Hope you packed well.

For what it's worth as İm in İzmir, its extremely soft here. 15 to 20 degrees during the days.. and from what I noticed on the weatherforcasts for as long as Im here.. İzmir and İstanbul usually differ only a few degrees, so I'd pack for around 15 degrees day time.. but in the evening it gets pretty cold here so for the evenings I should take something warm.

Have a great time there

Sezen Aksu gives a Sevgililer günü partisi in İzmir but we dont have money enough for two tickets So I was rather happy to hear that the acoustic in the place where it is held is bad and that you can't sit