All tagged Turkish Food
This week there's been a few weird-weather days here in Melbourne. Even though it's summer, we went through a bit of a rainy, cold-snap and I felt like nothing more than soup. However, because it is summer, I didn't have any of the usual suspects in my fridge, like celery, pumpkin or broccoli. Luckily, I had the right handful of ingredients to make this delish Turkish red lentil soup that I learnt to make last year.
Well what a day! Today marks Isaac and mine's 8th anniversary together. We met in high school, year 7 to be exact when I had changed schools and ended up in Isaac's class. I made a great bunch of friends, a lot of whom I still call great friends today but Isaac wasn't one of them right away. His locker was above mine but we never spoke to each because you know - high school. So the silence continued for term after term until one day we had a 'battleships' competition in maths class.
This is probably one place that has not been overrun with english for the sake of tourists. very hard to get around alone if you can't speak some turkish i feel, but that did not dampen the magic at all! we stayed with friends on the asian side of istanbul, all of the tourist destinations are on the european side so it was great to see how people live their everyday lives on the quieter side.
