Tuzlu kurabiye 🇹🇷

This Monday (seems Monday evolved to my recipe-publishing day, ha! 😁) I share with you a very simple recipe, the one for Turkish savory biscuits. They are easy to make (you don’t even need a mixer!) and they are great as party food, TV snack or a small gift. Kurabiye is the Turkish word for…

Manisa kebabı 🇹🇷

There are numerous variations on the topic grilled meat + yoghurt + tomato sauce + bread in Turkish cuisine, each with a specific name. The best known is probably İskender (kebap), where the meat is a döner and additionally to the basic combination you get melted butter poured over this very yummy, very non-slimming delicacy…..

Midye dolma (not only) in Kadıköy 🇹🇷

Stuffed mussels, midye dolma, are a popular street food in İstanbul and all along the Aegean coast of Turkey. I have enjoyed lots of them in Bodrum and İzmir too, but my first midye dolma I had in Kadıköy (one of the parts of Istanbul on the Asian side of the Bosphorus, best known as…