Thursday, November 27, 2008

Sunday, November 16 Market with Nancy

Winter arrived today and it was quite cold on our walk to the market. With Nancy's help I bought some ground beef at Cagdas (you point to the meat you want and then they grind it for you...I would appreciate it more I suppose if I cooked regularly with meat and had some knowledge of cuts and fat levels and such...I think I buy ground beef about 3 times per year in the neat little opaque plastic tube...)

Super serious produce man one second, then a giant beautiful grin when the camera came out. When Brian showed him the picture on the LCD, he motioned for his coworkers to make sure to see it too.


Beautiful, stacked eggplant/aubergine, 2 YTL per kilo


Can't crack a smile when you're a younger produce guy.


I cooked Sultan's Pilaf for dinner and had rinsed beyaz peynir with the best tomatoes ever (they were little dark red/purple heirloom cherry tomatoes and had THE BEST flavor!). So far, my favorite homemade dinner in Turkey I think. The dish is a rice pilaf with meatballs, and rinsing the beyaz peynir (white cheese--Turkish feta equivalent) has made all the difference for me. I could have eaten the cheese, tomatoes, and bread all night, but the pilaf was too good, too!

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