2006 May : Cafe Fernando – Food Blog

After long days of torture, Mr. Who Knows Everything came to his senses and gave me his mother's glorious gum mastic pudding recipe. I must confess that it did not turn out as good as his mother's original. I should have listened to him and got a hands-on demonstration. But being the impatient food blogger I am, I proceeded with the recipe the minute I got it.

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After such a miserable winter, summer has finally arrived. In order to take advantage of this nice weather, friends and I spent an amazing Saturday in the open air and finished the day off with a scrumptious dinner at Beyti, which is my favorite restaurant in Istanbul. Beyti is one of the oldest restaurants in İstanbul that serves traditional Turkish food, specializing in meat dishes. It is not ...

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Is there a better way to eat strawberries than just dipping them in powdered sugar? After all, isn't that the purest and most delicious way of eating them? How do you include this delicate fruit in something you bake and not loose its texture or overshadow its taste?

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For the sake of obtaining the recipe for the gum mastic pudding, I had to give in to a nasty blackmail by Mr. Who Knows Everything from The Mansion (Ralph's Dad). I was planning to keep this one to myself, but here you go Big Bird...

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After reading Keiko's Gum Mastic Ice Cream post, I knew I had to write about a wonderful pudding that I frequently eat at my very close friends' house, which we call "The Mansion". Looking over the amazing Bosphorus, The Mansion is a home to two very dear friends, their two incredibly sweet and funny kids, the most beautiful Golden Retriever on the planet (who is as meek ...

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