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Post by steev on Jul 9, 2012 0:24:21 GMT -5
Only optimists can cut it as gardeners/farmers; next planting/season/year will be better. Pessimists only work for guaranteed returns.
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Post by ferdzy on Mar 18, 2013 15:56:52 GMT -5
We've been back from Turkey for about a week now and are slowly starting to function again. We're going to be way behind on planting things, I'm afraid. But I digress. I just want to point out that I've gotten my first post up about our trip to Turkey. This one is more generally food oriented; the next one will be about farmers markets and of more interest here. I assume. I still have to write it. seasonalontariofood.blogspot.ca/2013/03/were-back-from-turkey.html |
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Post by 12540dumont on Mar 18, 2013 16:23:56 GMT -5
What a wonderful story. I'm very envious of the textiles....sigh.
Truly magnificent artichokes. Wish I could get seed for those!
Are those big squash the "sugar pumpkin" you spoke to me about earlier? Wow, they're huge!
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Post by ferdzy on Mar 18, 2013 16:47:51 GMT -5
Honey pumpkin. Yes, I think so, judging by the picture on the packet. Argh. Why can I no longer upload photos? I took a pic of the seed packets.  |
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Post by davida on Mar 18, 2013 16:57:03 GMT -5
We've been back from Turkey for about a week now and are slowly starting to function again. We're going to be way behind on planting things, I'm afraid. But I digress. I just want to point out that I've gotten my first post up about our trip to Turkey. This one is more generally food oriented; the next one will be about farmers markets and of more interest here. I assume. I still have to write it. seasonalontariofood.blogspot.ca/2013/03/were-back-from-turkey.htmlSo glad that you are back safely. Sorry to hear about the health issues. Really, really enjoyed the blog. |
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Post by steev on Mar 20, 2013 1:01:17 GMT -5
I'm glad to read your extensive oddyssy, especially the culinary aspects thereof. It's useful to note the culinary combinatitions of other cultures, so as to be aware of a wider palette of possibility. We so often get stuck in a very limited cultural/culinary milieu. Hellooo! Meat and potatoes folk!
I will note that my Trebizond date is breaking buds and is on notice that its performance is being monitored: no more Mister Nice Gardener.
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Post by ferdzy on Mar 20, 2013 6:49:17 GMT -5
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Post by 12540dumont on Mar 20, 2013 11:27:43 GMT -5
Ferdzy, Did you get recipes? I ate a cucumber salad in a Turkish restaurant that had fennel fronds in it. But they're not in season at the same time. I know that they make a tea with it. (Turkish and Tea!)
I didn't see any fish in the photos. Did I miss it? I love fennel tops and fish.
Dried Fennel on the BBQ, fish on top.
My love to Mr. Ferdzy.
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Post by bunkie on Mar 20, 2013 11:59:14 GMT -5
ferdzy, awesome posts! looks like it was a wonderful trip!
love the pics of the farmers market and the women working with dough and noone's wearing plastic gloves while handling food!
can't wait to see the recipes you muster up. curious about the flours they use for their bread...and if they soak first.
am going to show these to hubby ed, as he spent time in Turkey in the service way back when and loved it all.
just viewing your other post on the farmers markets. beautiful veg! i love the scales they use for weighing...pan and little weights.
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Post by ferdzy on Mar 20, 2013 13:00:41 GMT -5
Holly, I didn't really get recipes. I know there are a lot of Turkish food bloggers out there and I can track down recipes more easily from home than in Turkey... strange but true! I do have a short list of dishes I intend to pursue.
Cukes weren't "in season" when we were there, but they were everywhere. I didn't get any pictures and so I didn't end up talking about it, but every little town - I mean EVERY little town and village - on the south coast was surrounded by acres of plastic hoop-houses and the occasional glass greenhouse. They seemed to grow everything in there all winter, although tomatoes, greens and cukes were the big items. We drove (on the bus) through Fethiye, and it was full of companies advertising their F1 tomato hybrids. Not sure it they were selling seed, or tomatoes, or both. I would have loved to have paused and investigated a bit but we were changing buses in Fethiye and were late enough making our connection, that the steward* called ahead and got the other bus to wait, at which point we were transfered like packages to it and it took off. I quickly established that taking photos from a moving bus is an exercise in futility, unfortunately.
We just didn't eat any fish, by choice. Pricing of restaurant meals is a bit strange. You can get a chicken doner for 3 lira - about 2 dollars. "Meat" (how they sell it; it's often a mix of beef and lamb) is twice that. A made-in-advance chicken or meat dish in a more formal restaurant will generally be 8 to 15 lira. But for fish? First you have to go to a restaurant that caters mostly to tourists and prepare to spend some serious money. Cheapest fish we saw was something like smelts at 10 lira, and 20 to 40 lira was a lot more typical. We ate calamari a couple of times at 12-15 lira, and left it at that. We was on a budget, we was.
Bunkie, thanks! Yeah, the Turks had a whole different attitude to health and safety. Some of it was good, like they had actual childrens play equipment, as well as what looked like play equipment but was free outdoor exercise equipment for adults! Some of it wasn't so good, and I saw more otherwise healthy people with short-term or permanent crutches, casts, and other physical damage than I've seen here, well, ever. Plus every time I saw any news on TV it looked like half of Ankara was burning down.
Don't know about the wheat flours, I'm afraid.
* YES Most Turkish buses had stewards. Talk about civilized - a person could definitely get used to it.
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Post by bunkie on Mar 20, 2013 13:22:10 GMT -5
hubs is reading and lookins at your pics now ferdzy. says he's got tears in his eyes and his mouth is watering!
he thought one of the two bowls, top, was possibly dried grapes. he said all the veg aand fruits were HUGE there.
he remembers the breakfasts as you mentioned. says the whole market and such hasn't changed much. will let him view your last post about the villages.
he used to dive on the Black Sea all over back then early 70's. as for the monies he said back then they could buy a whole meal for a buck and a half, so dirt cheap. a HUGE platter of fish for a dollar.
for Ankara, he remembers mostly stone buildings? course 40 some years ago, perhaps they have expanded?
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Post by ferdzy on Aug 21, 2013 7:18:48 GMT -5
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Post by ferdzy on Oct 2, 2015 21:57:36 GMT -5
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Post by mskrieger on Oct 20, 2015 10:06:35 GMT -5
Hi ferdzy Just wanted to shout out and mention your cauliflower with mushrooms and paprika recipe is wonderful. Wonderful! I'm going to try more of them. |
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Post by ferdzy on Oct 20, 2015 15:30:38 GMT -5
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