Verrines and Fingerfood
Today I want to complain about having guests abroad. If the guests are from our part of the world, they certainly miss rakı nights. And Alp wouldn't miss rakı night for the world if he is with good company. So we alwaysa prepare meze. If the guests are from somewhere else, then they want to try original Turkish cuisine (as I would for their own cuisine) so we end up with mezes, again! So we end up making mezes whenever we have guests instead of trying new recipes the way I love to experiment. ...
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....
