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…

Tortellini alla panna con funghi finferli 🇮🇹

Yesterday I realised – even if most of my cooking is either Turkish or Italian, and even if Italywas on the Simplon Orient Express route, I still had not publisbed a single Italian recipe! This omissionis hereby now removed 🙂 Yes, I often make traditional pasta dishes like spaghetti carbonara, or penne all’Amatriciana, or buccatini…

Soğuk çorba 🇹🇷

Soğuk çorba literally means cold soup in Turkish. If you are having problems with dealing with summer heat, it is as refreshing as gazpacho but even simpler to make! In fact, there are several versions of this, the one I made is also called soğuk ayran aşı. When a Turkish friend said to me she…