Chef, restaurateur, author, grower

 

Homemade pomegranate syrup

Homemade pomegranate syrup

Who doesn’t love pomegranate? The juicy, tangy, sweet seeds are addictive. It can be challenging to open and to seed them if you’re not familiar with the technique, but the result is definitely worth the effort. I don’t even remember how and when I learned to open...

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Chopped tomato salad

Chopped tomato salad

We call this kaşık salata, which means spoon salad in Turkish. It’s more of a salsa than salad and it’s eaten with a spoon! The difference is that ingredients are chopped more coarsely in kaşık salata, and it has more texture and crunchiness than salsa. Chopped tomato...

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Muhammara (Red Pepper and Walnut Dip)

Muhammara (Red Pepper and Walnut Dip)

It’s been a while I wasn’t here because of long hours of restaurant life. When I started to have a little time at home for few mornings a week, I came right back to give more love to my blog. I wanted to post Muhammara recipe since quite a while, because, it’s the...

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