Turkish Cuisine 101: Aşure
Let's start with the pronounciation: It's like ah-shoe-reh. The name in Turkish comes from food aş, but I read it may originate from the word 10th in Arabic, because it is traditionally made on the 10th day of Muharrem (a month in Islamic calendar).
In Turkey Aşure (Noah's pudding) is a very traditional dessert. Interestingly it's one of the few vegan Turkish desserts.
The dessert is a tribute to Noah's ark and the great flood. The story says that after the great flood when Noah's ...
Gullac Workshop
Güllaç is a classical Turkish dessert, once referred to as "milk soaked napkin". It is prepared with a pastry of corn starch, wheat flour and water (which used to be wheat flour). Actually I think you can replace it with rice papers used for Spring Rolls. It wouldn't be the same but it would be close enough. Traditionally the pastry is soaked with milk and sugar, the center is filled with walnuts and the dessert is covered with pistachio and pomegrenade seeds. That's it. Milk soaked napkin....
End of April – Time for Rhubarb : Rhubarb and Strawberry Galette
The weather is getting warmer and rhubarbs are ready to harvest! When I saw rhubarbs ready to go, I decided to write about this weird plant with edible stalks.
It is from polygonaceae family (rheum rhabarbarum, French rhubarbe) with appealing red stems. It is not grown in Turkey so not really known there. But it can grow well under Turkish climate. It is perennial and zero maintenance! So if you have a garden, plant it somewhere, you won't regret!
I have never met this plant until we ...
This Profiterol is Zumbo’s Fault
We are not desserts people. So, we don't really know how to make desserts. But for the past two weeks we got hooked to a desserts competition called Zumbo's Just Desserts. Oh what desserts they make in 3-4 hours, with usual ingredients! After watching the first few episodes in awe, the toxic thought showed up: Easy, I can do that. First effort was to be a cake but what do I know? I cannot make just a dry cake, I don't know creams, what is a sponge? or Jaconde? Somewhere I had a recipe called ...
