Hello, sestrichka. How did you know I made this today?
Here is the information for you.
Natiypuspi, you are right,
Tajine-slaoui is Moroccan cookery. It is a round earthenware dish with pointed lid.

Tajines

The preparation is the same for either mutton or veal.
As a rule, either mutton(shoulder and chops) or veal(knuckle)is used for tajines.
Have the meat cut up by the butcher with a saw to avoid having any splinters of bone.

There are many kind of Tajines but I will just give you one recipe I liked. It was prepared very well and I learned that from very nice lady in Morocco.

"Meat tajine with green beans and tomatoes"

Ingredients for 6 to 8 people ( I have noticed that this is the smallest amount they prepare)

1,5 kg(3 lbs 5 oz) of meat (mutton sholder and chops or veal knuckle)
1 kg (2 lbs 3 oz) of green beans
1 kg (2 lbs 3 oz) of tomatoes
1 heaped teaspoon of ginger
1 good pinch of saffron
1 heaped teblespoonful of paprika
1 ladleful of groundnut oil
juice of 1 lemon
salt

Cut the meat in pieces weighing about 150 g (5 oz), rinse and put in a tick - bottomed saucepan. Add salt, ginger, saffron, paprika, oil and the tomatoes which have peeled, seeded and cut up. Allow to boil for a few seconds then add the green beans. Cook with a lid on, stirring from time to time. Add water if necessary.
When the meat is cooked and breaks off easily in the fingers check that the beans are cooked and then add the lemon juice. Leave the sauce to boil down until it is thick then remove from the heat.
Serve very hot in a round dish with the green beans on top of the meat and the sauce poured over.

Bon appetit, dear!



Tajine - slaoui

Great thread!!!
Thank you, KaithL for opening it.
I never visited Turkey(not yet). Doesn't mean never will do.
That's my dream, and all of you made me very impatient with your memories shared with us. I wish that day will come soon.
Kayakebab, you made me comfortable.
I was filling weird all the time thinking I had previous life in Turkey because every day I discover many new things very familiar to me.
Thank you, guys with sharing your stories and impressions with us.
I wish to all who will visit Turkey in near future wonderful time.



Bridge across Bosphorus

My dream to step on it one day.

Do you think so?
We will ask our part then
I see Ayla is here though.

I was thinking it will be:

Love desires beauty(goodness), beauty wishes for longing, beyond the beauty heartfelt smile fire desires.

Just attempt to help.
Where are our professional translators?
Sorry if wrong.

It is midnight here. I was sitting very sad and lonely and started to read this thread. Long ago we all had great time, posting , translating and enjoing great russian poetry. I remembered all our friends who took part of this , I will say, pleasant project, Great job was done by my dear Slavica, Cyrano, Duda, Mella, Terra and many others, who contributed their precious time to post and read wonderful poems here. I was just wondering how we could forget about this forum and stop writing. Don't you think it would be lovely to see new poems here?
I am just thinking that in our busy life it is always good idea to read something nice, which brings pleasure, as we Russians say 'Dlya dushi' - 'For our soul'.
Wouldn't be nice to read poems from other languages and their translations in Turkish?
Once we were doing this, why not to continue that and share our favourite poems.
I will start here with one.

To the Muse

My sister Muse looked at my face,
Her gaze was clear and bright.
She took my golden ring away -
First present of that spring.
Muse! Do you see their happiness?
Girls, widows, wives.
I would rather die on the rack,
But not these bounds of iron.
Guessing, I tear the petals
From the gentle daisy flower.
All of us on this earth
Must know the torture of love.
Until dawn, my candle burns on a windowsill
And I miss no one.
But, I don't, don't, don't want to
Know how the other woman is kissed.
Tomorrow, laughing, the mirror will say
'Your gaze is not clear, not bright'
I will answer quietly: 'She took
My gift from God away.

Translated by Eric Gillan

Музе

Муза-сестра заглянула в лицо,
Взгляд ее ясен и ярок.
И отняла золотое кольцо,
Первый весенний подарок.
Муза! ты видишь, как счастливы все -
Девушки, женщины, вдовы...
Лучше погибну на колесе,
Только не эти оковы.
Знаю: гадая, и мне обрывать
Нежный цветок маргаритку.
Должен на этой земле испытать
Каждый любовную пытку.
Жгу до зари на окошке свечу
И ни о ком не тоскую,
Но не хочу, не хочу, не хочу
Знать, как целуют другую.
Завтра мне скажут, смеясь, зеркала:
'Взор твой не ясен, не ярок...'
Тихо отвечу: 'Она отняла
Божий подарок'.

10 ноября 1911
Царское Село

Anna Akhmatova

Mevlana said: Come out of the circle of time and into the circle of Love.

We came whirling
out of nothingness
scattering stars like dust.
The stars made a circle
and in the middle
we dance.
The wheel of heaven circles God like a mill
If you grab a spoke
it will tear your hand off.
Turning and turning
it sunders
all attachment.
Were that wheel not in love
it would cry
Enough! How long this turning?
every atom turns bewildered
Beggars circle tables
dogs circle carrion
the lover circles his own heart.
Ashamed,
I circle shame.
A ruined water wheel
whichever way I turn
is the river
If that rusty old sky
creaks to a stop
still, still I turn
And it is only God
circling Himself.

Kabak Tatlisi

500 grams of pumpkin
½ glass of granulated sugar
1 glass of water
1 glass of sugar
1 glass of crushed walnut
Preparation

Peel the pumpkin and cut it up into pieces. Wash it. On a tray, put a layer of pumpkin and a layer of sugar. Pour the water and close the lid. Cook it on moderate heat. Sprinkle the crushed walnut on.

Bon appetit!

I wish you get well soon and hope everything will be fine with you. Come back soon!

My dearest friends!!!
I read the amazing post of my dear sestrichka yesterday and was thinking what to write to express my thoughts, and now after reading Sophie's post have to say nothing because she just expressed my feelings very well.
I am thankful to all of you being in my life, supporting me and undersdtanding well. I think there couldn't be more REAL friendship than this.
We can laugh together. Can open our hearts to each other.Can help each other through the rough times with kind words and honest caring.
I thank you all for bringing your love and friendship into my life.



And here are my wishes for the coming year.

http://www.123greetings.com/events/new_year/friends/friends13.html

Thank you Dear Canli for your warm words.
It will be 2 years I am in this lovely site.Here I learnt not only Turkish but many wonderful things and most of all I made so many precious friends who was here for me in bad and good days of my life. We proved that this is real life not imaginery world as many say.
I want to thank you all for being here and sharing your experiences.
It is great pleasure to be a part of this family.

Marry Christmas, Blessed Kurban Bayrami and Happy New Year to all of you!