Turkish food is really wonderful (except for those pesky uncooked vegetables washed in unsafe water!). Here are a few of my new favorites! Spelling is probably not correct! Haven't started those Turkish lessons, yet!
-iskander: a dish with a bottom layer of buttered pieces of bread, a middle layer of shaved doner meat, and a top layer of a tomato sauce and then yogurt. So good!
-tavuk pizzola: chicken cooked on a grill, served with really good red pepper couscous
-turkish coffee: ok, the grounds in the bottom are a little odd, but it's some good stuff! nice and
strong!
-kebap: meat and veggies on a skewer and grilled; my favorite is rolled in ground pistchios
-desserts: I love any variation of a pastry drenched in honey, pistachios, and other nuts!!!
-tutku: this is a brand of cookies and they have a candy bar version; both the cookies and the
candy bar have a center of melted chocolate; Tim is a real sucker for these!
-chai: this is tea; when we go into a shop to buy something or are waiting for our order of food, they bring a little clear glass of complimentary tea; most people add a cube of sugar, but no milk; often, it is just regular black tea, but sometimes you will get apple tea, which is very good!
-doner sandwiches: love these!! I grew to love these in Vienna, but they are wonderful here, too. Doner meat (which is on a cylindrical rotating rod) cooks all day and when it's ready, it's sliced very thin and put into a type of flatbread sandwich; they put a yogurt sauce on it with lettuce and tomato and if you're lucky, a really good spicy pepper relish
-kofte: Turkish meatballs
-pide: a type of Turkish pizza that looks kind of like French bread pizza; often it doesn't have
any tomato sauce; it's just the bread, cheese (not mozarella) and toppings
-NYPD pizza: the name of this pizza place cracks me up!; this is truly some of the best pizza ever!!! the bbq chicken pizza is amazing!!!!; the best part is that they deliver; we registered on a fast food site (for all of Turkey) and order on-line- very convenient, probably too convenient
Those are just a few of my favorite things!! I'm sure much more will be added to the list!
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