Pea Salad

 

One of my neigbour had a birthday last week and we wanted to make a beautiful surprise for her as the building dwellers. Everyone would prepare something. One of our friends would take over a birthday pastry. One of our friends would take over beverages.  Appetizers are necessary for the beverages. Everyone would prepare a different appetizer and we would meet at the door of our neighbour who had a birhday at 20.00. I decided to prepare Pea Salad a different local flavour as an appetizer. I started to prepare it before the meeting hour and I made it. I went to the party with this salad in my hand.  When we all gathered in front of the door of our friend at the fixed time, she opened the door with a big surprise at night. We celebrated her birhday all together. Of course drinking is forbidden for me because of being pregnant. My friends drank all the night and they ate appetizers. They finished the whole appetizers. Guess which appetizer finished first ?

Here is the recipe of the favourite Pea Salad appetizer.

Ingredients:

• 500gr fresh pea
• a lemon
• 5-6 cloves of garlic
• 4-5 tbsp olive oil
• 2 cups of water

Recipe:

First of all string the peas then wash them. Cut the fresh peas in two.Put them in a pot and boil in two cups of water. When they soften, take out the peas from the pot and drain then put them on a plate. Mash the cloves of garlic in a bowl then put the mashed garlic, lemon juice, olive oil and a pinch of salt on peas then stir them perfectly. Now it is ready.

Pea  salad goes very well with alcohol drinks. 

Enjoy it.

Pumpkin Dessert

I’ve always loved pumpkin dessert since my childhood. Sindrella and her prince come into my mind when I think pumpkin dessert. Sindrella, who has a pumpkin car and glass shoes has to arrive home before the clock shows 12.00.When I decide to make pumpkin dessert, The Story Of Sindrella comes into my mind.

Today I made Pumpkin Dessert. Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

• 1kg pumpkin
• 3/2 cups of sugar
• 2-3 cloves
• a cup of crumbled walnut

Recipe:

Peel the pumpkin and wash then slice the pumpkin and put it in a pot then sprinkle sugar on it and close the cover overnight. Pumpkin will get its water out on that time. Put the cloves in that pot the following day then cook them until the pumpkin get soften. When it gets cold, take it in a plate and  sprinkle crumbled walnuts on it.

Enjoy it.

 

Volcano Meat Balls

Last week my mother- in-law came to my home.She came form the southern Turkey. And there they make local dishes like İçli Köfte.İçli Köfte is a famous dish in Turkish Cusine. Everyone in Turkey like it. It has lots of kinds.  I don’t know how to translate it’s name into English. Let me try: Semolina meatballs, Filling balls… I think I’ll find at the end of the recipe.

 Ingredients

• 2 cups of pounded wheat
• a middle size onion
• 1 tbsp pepper paste
• 1 tsp cumin
• 1,5 cups of semolina
• 2 tbsp all purpose flour
• 1 tsp salt

For filling

• 1/2 minced meat
• 125gr margarine
• 5-6 middle size onion
• 1 tsp black pepper
• 1 tsp cumin
• a pinch of red pepper

Recipe:

Put the pounded wheat in a bowl then add a cup of water in it and also put the samolina in an another bowl then again add little water on it. Wait them as they are wet. When the pounded wheat gets soften, add cumin, salt and paste then grate the onion. Knead this mixture perfectly then add the semolina and again knead this mixture perfectly.

Preparing its filling:

Melt the margarine in a pan. Put the minced meat on it and roast this minced meat in it. Mince the onions then put them on that pan and go on roasting. Roast it by adding salt, black pepper,cumin and red pepper. Turn off the button of the oven then wait it to get cold.

First of all, take a pinch of kneaded pounded wheat as big as a walnut and roll it like a ball then press your finger middle of the rolled ball and open the ball like a volcano and put your minced filling in it then close crater of the volcano with kneaded pounded wheat perfectly. Continue doing like this until it finishes.  After finishing all balls lets prepare it for servinng.

Add juice of a lemon in 1lt water then boil it. When the water boils put balls in it one by one but be careful put spaces in that water balls shouldn’t touch each other in the water. When the balls come to surface of the water it means they are ready to be eaten.

Bon appetit.

P.S.: At the end of the recipe I found what would I name for the dish: Volcano Meat Balls!

 

Love of Tomatoes and Peppers

This morning I didn’t want  anything to eat. I woke up and started to think what I would eat. I decided to prepare our breakfast. I put cheese, egg, honey, jam and olive but I didn’t want to eat them. I wanted to eat something different so I prepared this yummy dish.

Ingredients

• 2 tbsp sun flower oil
• 5 green peppers
• 6-7 middle sized tomatoes
• A pinch of salt, red pepper flakes

Boil 1lt water and put water in a bowl then put the tomatoes in it and wait for about 5 or 10 minutes. We do it for peeling tomatoes easyly. After waiting, peel the tomatoes and chop them.  Wash and chop the green peppers. Saute peppers with oil in a pan then add the chopped tomatoes and cook them until boils down its water. Sprinkle a pinch of salt and red pepper flakes in it then stir.

Eat Love of Tomatoes and Peppers at breakfast with bread and tea.

Enjoy it.

P.S: Please do not eat your fingers when you eat this yummy dish.