Flaky Pastry With Curd

Yesterday night I  got excited about my aunt’s and my sister’s visit. I miss them very much. First my aunt came and then her two sons and my sister came the following day. They were very happy to see my doughter. They came here yesterday morning and I wanted to prepare them breakfast. I wanted to prepare Flaky Pastry With Curd. My whole family loves this flaky pastry.  Especially at breakfasts Flaky Pastries go very well with tea. We call them ‘pogaca’ in Turkish.

Ingredients :

• A cup of yoghurt
• An egg
• ½ cup of sunflower oil
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt
• 3  cups of all purpose flour

For filling:

• 100 gr. Curd
• A bunch of dill
• A pinch of thyme (optional)

Recipe:
Lets prepare the filling of Flaky Pastry. Wash a bunch of dill well then drain. After draining chop them perfectly and stir it with the curd by your hands. The filling is ready. ( If you want add a pinch of thyme in it.)

Put yoghurt and the egg in a bowl then stir them and   add salt, oil and baking powder in it then again stir. After doing that add flour slowly by stiring continuous. Then knead the dough.

Take a piece of dough as big as a  walnut. By pressing with your hands roll out the dough. Put the filling on the half part of the dough and close the other part of the dough. Making like this they seems like half moon. Make the whole dough like this and put them on a tray and rub egg with the help of a brush and sprinkle  seeds of nigella sativa each of them. Bake it at 180ºC – 355 ºF until their surface get red. Enjoy.

The Forty Days Cake Video

The Forty Days Cake from Dilek on Vimeo.

I told you before the celebration dinner  of my baby’s f”orty days.” I made this yummy cake that day.   Finishing forty days from birth is our heritage and a belief. Now my baby is growing up day by day. Her sleeping, feeding,  and excretion look like an adult person’s. All these are new for my baby. When a baby finishes forty days, we celebrate it on the fortieth day. In Turkish we call this “kırk uçurmak”; in English we may translate this phrase  as “fly the forty days”. On the fortieth day of the birth, first of all the baby is washed then mother has a bath. After this mother visits a neighbour with her baby. The neighbour expresses good wishes about the baby and before they leave, owner of  the house gives eggs and sugar then touches some flour to forehead of baby. The egg means production, sugar means good and sweet life and flour means  intelligence.
I made this yummy cake with the egg and sugar that our neighbour gives us. I  name it “The Forty Days Cake” being  inspired by “fly the forty days”. I think it is made  for the honor of her.
Here is the recipe:
Ingredients:
•        A cup of milk
•        A cup of sugar
•        3/4 cups of corn oil or sunflower oil
•        2cups of all purpose flour
•        A cup of corn flour
•        3 eggs
•        1 packet of baking powder
•        1 packet of vanilla
•        2 cups of edible nuts( peanut, hazelnut, walnut, almond)

First of all mix egg and sugar with the help of mixer then put vanilla and baking powder  and pour a cup of milk and put 3/4 cups of corn oil or sunflower oil and add all purpose flour and corn flour in it and mix it with a mixer perfectly. Put edible nuts  in it then mix.
Spread  oil the cake mold with a brush then pour the mixture in it. Bake it at 180ºC – 355 ºF for 25-30 minutes.
Enjoy.

Poppy Seed Bun Video

Poppy Seed Bun from Dilek on Vimeo.

This morning my husband and my mom surprised me. They, together, prepared these yummy Poppy Seed Buns. Yesterday nigh I didn’t sleep because of my little princess. I have to feed my baby every two hours. She sleeps all the day and I wake her up every two hours and suckle her so I have irregular sleep times. Thanks to my mom and my husband. They always help me at house works and in kitchen. For example they clean our home and they start to cook dishes for us. As I said at the beginning of my sentence they surprised me and they made Poppy Seed Buns. I made Gozleme before if you remember. And I used poppy seeds with Gozleme. On this photo you see popy seeds but when making Poppy Seed Buns we use mashes seeds.

Ingredients :

• 1 kg all purpose flour
• 1 tbsp salt
• a packet of instant yeast
• Enough water

For filling:
a cup of walnut
a cup mashed poppy seeds
a cup of ground walnut
a cup of sun flower oil

Recipe:
Put whole flour in a case then put instant yeast and salt in it then pour water in it then knead it carefully after that cover the case with a cloth then wait it to rise for an hour. On the other hand prepare the filling. Put the mashed poppy seeds in a case then pour some oil and add ground walnut in it. Mix them perfectly .After waiting for an hour take the cloth from the case.
Before rolling the dough lets prepare the kitchen board. Sprinkle flour on to kitchen board in order not to stick to kitchen board. Now take a piece of dough from the dough case and roll it with your hands.
As you watch on video. Roll out the dough then put the mixture on the dough then spread it perfectly. Then roll it as you see on video then strech it from both edges to extend and swirl it. Pour oil in a tray and spread it. After making buns put them in that tray then put the tray in oven.
Heat the oven on 175C(347F). Bake the buns for 25-30 minutes.
After 25-30 minutes later take out the tray from the oven. Wait the buns to get cold. After getting cold you can serve and eat the buns with tea. Enjoy.

Cake With Turkish Delight

When I was making this yummy cake an idea came to my mind.  Why don’t I use Turkish delight in the cake? Then I decided to put some Turkish delight in my cake. So how was the  result? This is the result you see in this picture above. Marvelous!  I think you must try this recipe. When I decided to put Turkish delight in my cake a song was playing in my radio. Who was singing?  Madonna! Madonna was singing Candy Shop (”I’ve got Turkish delight baby and so much more…”) Turkish delight is  mentioned in the song “Candy Shop”, the first song of the album Hard Candy by Madonna. May be the song of Madonna inspired me so I did it. )

Ingredients:

•     1 cup of milk
•     1 cup of sugar
•     3/4 cups of corn oil or sunflower oil
•     3 cups of all purpose flour
•     3 eggs    
•     1 packet of baking powder
•     1 packet of vanilla
•     Turkish delight (optional quantity) 

Recipe:

First of all mix egg and sugar with the help of mixer then add  milk, all purpose flour, vanilla and baking powder in it and mix it with mixer perfectly.

Put Turkish delights in it then mix. I prefer little Turkish delights but if you want you can put evry kind of Turkish delight.  Spread  oil the cake mold with a brush then pour the mixture in it. Bake it at 180ºC – 355 ºF for 25-30 minutes.

A few hours later you can serve it!

Oscar Cake

Last day there were Academy Awards on Tv and I wondered  who would win Oscar Awards, who would look at the Oscar statuette and cry? I got excited as the stars. I had favourites naturally.

For example, Frost/Nixon. My favourite film candidate was Frost/Nixon. Unfortunately Frost/Nixon didn’t win the Academy Awards.

My husband and I watched the night with this yummy cake. We ate this yummy cake with cups of tea.

 Ingredients:

• 1 cup of milk
• 1 cup of sugar
• 3/4 cups of corn oil or sunflower oil
• 2 1/2 cups of all pupose flour
• 1 tbsp cacao
• 1 packet of baking powder
• 1 packet of vanilla

 

• 1 tbsp nescafe
•  1 cup of milk
• 2 1/2 cups of chocolate sauce

 Recipe:

First of all mix egg and sugar with the help of mixer then add cacao, milk, all purpose flour and baking powder in it and mix it with mixer perfectly. Spread  oil the cake mold with a brush then pour the mixture in it. Bake it at 180ºC – 355 ºF for 25-30 minutes. Pour the milk in a bowl and add nescafe in it then when the cake gets warm, make little holes on it with a knife. Pour the milky nescafe on the cake then pour the chocolate sauce on it.

You can garnish with coconut. A few hours later you can serve it!

We watched Oscar Academy Awards with this yummy cake and Oscar went to “Slumdog Millionaire” on the branch of best picture.

Hunter Pastry

Gozleme