Tag Archives: cookery
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Dinnertime (I)
8Friday 15 April, 2016 by Uncle Spike
My first Weekly Photo Challenge image for the theme “Dinnertime” is a bowl of yummy traditionally prepared Turkish spinach. If …
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Something simple from the freezer
16Sunday 21 February, 2016 by Uncle Spike
With three freezers full of homegrown produce, it’s a pretty regular occurrence that I delve into their depths with not …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: From Every Angle (I)
12Monday 31 August, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge brings you three shots of just three of a number of …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Favourite dish
13Wednesday 24 June, 2015 by Uncle Spike
My favourite side dish, PEPPERS ‘N’ YOGHURT; dried peppers cooked crisp and served with a bowl of cool natural unpasteurized …
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Peppers & Yoghurt
11Saturday 21 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
One of my favourite side dishes are hot peppers served with yoghurt – very traditional fare and my treat. My …
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Excellent for salad
8Tuesday 17 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
One of our best natural ingredients we have for a fresh salad are from the broad beans. . . We …
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Homemade Bread
12Saturday 14 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
I have no home phone or internet this weekend, thanks to a nine hour storm that knocked out the local …
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Bay leaves anyone?
11Tuesday 10 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
I remember these things in cookery lessons, but to be honest, that was about as much knowledge I had on …
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Turkish Style Spinach
14Sunday 01 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Popeye had a point…. Spinach IS an excellent source of nutrition, but to be honest, I’d never really fancied it, usually …
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Red Lentil Köfte
27Sunday 22 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
One of the meals favoured by the Spike tummy is what is known in Turkish as Mercimekli Köfte (pronounced Mer-ji-mek-li …
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Aşure (“ah-shu-reh” in Turkish)
11Sunday 15 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
You may have heard of this dish, Ashure (as it’s spelt in English) as it’s famed in cultures and religions beyond the …
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Them Chooks Named ‘Soup’
14Tuesday 13 January, 2015 by Uncle Spike
As you may recall, all our spare roosters in the pen had the name ‘Soup’. Someone even asked me why …
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Spike’s Caramelised Baby Clementines
18Thursday 01 January, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Here’s something a little different from my kitchen… In the orchards we have mostly clementine trees, which are ‘in harvest’ …
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Peeling a Pommie
32Sunday 23 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Another question I am often asked, is how the chuff does one peel a pommie (that is, pomegranate to normal …
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Deniz Börülcesi
6Sunday 23 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
What the heck am I on about? Well, Deniz Börülcesi, as we call it in Turkish, is a salty, seaweedy …
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Homemade Wild Sour Pomegranate Extract
10Saturday 08 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Regional palettes vary worldwide, with every corner of the earth claiming certain culinary favourites that locals simply take for granted. …
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Plentiful Pepper Preparation
27Saturday 01 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
I am often asked about what the hell we do with all the fruit and veg that we grow. Well, …
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Stuffed Vine Leaves
25Saturday 26 April, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Stuffed vine leaves are a national dish here in Turkey, and certainly one of our favourites. They keep in the …
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First Beetroot
13Thursday 24 April, 2014 by Uncle Spike
These were so very tasty, freshly prepared for our salad last night 🙂
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From Burgers To Homegrown
23Saturday 08 March, 2014 by Uncle Spike
HEALTH HERO – that’s a funny term isn’t it? Trawling around the net this week, I came across a site …
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