Baked Vegetable Fritters (Fırında Sebzeli Mücver)

Mücver is usually made with zucchini and then fried, however it is way lighter to bake it in these hot and humid summer days. This is a mod...

Savory Spinach and Feta Cake (Ispanaklı ve Beyaz Peynirli Kek)

In several previous post s I have mentioned the importance of afternoon tea time in Turkey and the snacks that we would have with our tea. T...

Green Olive Rolls (Yeşil Zeytinli Rulo)

In Turkey patisseries are real life savers with their wide range of offerings that include baklava, börek s, cakes, cookies, meringues, milk...

Instant Coffee and Raisin Cake (Neskafeli ve Üzümlü Kek)

Although Turks are known to be a coffee --especially Turkish coffee-- drinking nation, we are actually obsessed with tea. Besides, it wouldn...

Ground Meat Rolls (Kıymalı Rulo)

My mom made this for the afternoon tea time. It takes a while to make, but it is delicious. You should definitely try this! for the dough 1/...

Savory Cornmeal Cake (Mısır Ekmeği)

Corn meal or corn flour cake was something my mom used to bake for a lazy weekend breakfast once or twice a year. It was always a special ca...

Black Olive Cake (Zeytinli Kek)

It's a gloomy, cloudy, rainy, and miserable Sunday. The best to do seemed like baking a cake, making Turkish tea, and watching a movie. ...

Dill-Feta Poğaça (Dereotlu Peynirli Poğaça)

Poğaça , a kind of savory pastry / bread, is a traditional baked good in Turkey and Eastern European+Balkanic countries which at some point ...

Moist Cocoa Cake (Kakaolu Islak Kek)

1/2 cup milk 4 tbsp unsweetened cocoa 1 1/2 cup sugar 1 cup flour 1/2 cup oil (vegetable, corn, or canola) 2 eggs 2 tsp baking powder 1/4 cu...

Bread Topped with Tomato-Parsley et al (Fırında Domates ve Maydanozlu Ekmek)

When I was a kid, the biggest torture for me was to have stale bread for breakfast, and this recipe was my mom's genius invention to ma...