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....
Celery Salad with Walnuts, Pears and Roquefort
I am quite fond of salads with fruits. To me fruits overpower the bluntness of regular green salads. In Turkey we are used to a few salads like spinach with pomegrenates. But fruity salad world is very vast and it is waiting for us to discover! Well, one of the gems I discovered recently, and I hesitate each time I prepare and end up with a happy surprise, is this celery salad with walnuts, pears and Roquefort.
Back in Turkey, celery branch was not very easy to find. Traditionally we use the ...
