sury wrote:Yildiz,
Since we do dine out a lot, she wants to try different foods. Like any cuisine,
once you have the basics in place, everything else is a variation of the theme,
is her point of view. Why not try the variations of the basics themselves and then
fuse different basics for more innovative meals?
Since this is a food topic, we have a Sunday morning staple, that uses Top Ramen
noodles, with Indian spices and cooked in Mexican Salsa. I should make the dish
this weekend and publish the photo.
Sury
Sury, I agree with your wife's views completely. That's how I go about my food as well; I change things here and there and get to a new taste altogether and I mostly enjoy them. : )
Looking forward to Top Ramen noodles cooked with Indian spices in Mexican Salsa.
Love learning new methods!
Yildiz
Birma wrote:Yummy looking food, and I like the dish and tea glass as well : )
I went to a Turkish restaurant in Nottingham, UK, last weekend when visiting friends. Lots of nice things that I was expecting (coffee and baklava!) but also something I had never tried before. Turnip water. My friends who eats there regularly said I should try it as it was a really unique taste. What a colour! I was expecting it to be sweet, but of course it is a vary savoury taste. I think this would be nice as a hearty accompaniment to a winter meal, but as it was very hot I preferred a cold Diet Coke
. I should have captured a picture, but I never thought of this. I wondered if this was a popular Turkish drink, or just something for English Turkish restaurants
.
I wish you had taken a couple of photos too, Birma.
Next time then.
Turnip water is a very, very popular drink in Turkey. No doubt about that. You can find it in almost all food markets nowadays.
In the past, when I was a child you could find it only in cities like Adana, Mersin, Gaziantep which are in the southern parts of Turkey. The red carrot which actually gives the colour of the drink grows in those regions and only for a short period of time during the winter. The best turnip water is naturally produced in those parts. The bottled ones have preservatives which make it taste rather too salty.
We mostly consume the drink with kebabs and lahmacun (a kind of flat pizza made with minced red meat and onions). It is a must on the table because it helps digesting the fatty kebabs and the lahmacuns. : )
I love it all by itself. I really need no kebabs or anything else by its side to consume it.
I especially like the ones made in Adana and Mersin where it is consumed fresh.
It definitely is something Turkish and not merely confined to English Turkish restaurants. You'll find out for yourself when and if you come to Turkey. : ))
Thanks for the kind words,
Yildiz
I am very confident that my kids will inculcate the same values in their children, if and when they have any. The familial gender discrimination is far worse than the familiar discrimination of the society. 
