Gnocchi alla sorrentina, gnocchi in the style of Sorrento, are a wonderfully simple Italian dish. Sorrento is a town near Naples and the dish itself seems to be a few hundred years old – some sources mention its existence even in the XVIth century! According to the legend, they were invented along with gnocchi themselves,…
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Zeytinyağlı taze fasulye 🇹🇷
Taze fasulye is the Turkish term for (broad and flat) green beans as well as dishes made with them in a tomato sauce. The zeytinyağlı, i.e. with olive oil, variant is a summer classic popular all over Türkiye. It is simple to make, healthy and inexpensive, is eaten lukewarm or cold as a meze or…
Domates dolması 🇹🇷
Stuffed veggies are a well-known and ancient staple of Middle Eastern, particularly Turkish cuisine. Many have been adapted to other national cuisines, particularly those who belong to countries once under the rule of the Ottoman empire. The best known of these is, I guess, stuffed peppers, popular all over Balkans, and beyond… Turks stuff peppers,…
Cooker on the Orient Express 