Turkish kitchen is full of yummy variations on minced meat with veggies (one I already described in this blog, the Manisa kebabı). İzmir köfte, meatballs İzmir style, is another of my favourites. They are essentially baked meatballs with potatoes and red sauce. I made them several times with slight variations on the recipe below and…
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Soğan kebabı 🇹🇷
If you associate the word kebap (or kebab) with what Turks call döner kebabı, and is a common type of fast food in many countries, then this might be interesting for you to try. On one hand, it is one of the very broad category of Turkish food called kebaps, on the other hand, this…
Polpete u toću 🇭🇷 / polpette al sugo 🇮🇹
One of the best-loved Dalmatian comfort-food dishes, for most Dalmatians bringing strong memories from childhood days with mom or granny, is polpete u toču. Dalmatia is the coastal part of Croatia, directly across Italy on the other side of the Adriatic sea. This is where this dish originally came from: its ‘parent-dish’ is the Italian…
Cooker on the Orient Express 