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The Mansion
May 07th, 2006 | Category: Ralph & The Mansion, Turkish Cuisine
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 as a lamb and always hungry), and a handful of other close friends with whom I share endless days of food and laughter.
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Artichoke with peas
April 28th, 2006 | Category: Turkish Cuisine, Vegetarian
Artichoke in olive oil is a traditional Turkish appetizer. It has many variations when it comes to the topping, such as potatoes & carrots, broad beans & dill or as in my case: Peas.
This is one of those vegetable dishes, which I hated eating growing up as a child and started treasuring it in my 20s.
Artichoke Quote:
“After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual ‘food’ out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps.” by Miss Piggy
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Poor Man’s Lentil
April 09th, 2006 | Category: Memoir/Meme/Misc., Turkish Cuisine, Vegetarian
Back in the spring of ‘99, after endless days of house hunting, Özlem and I managed to find a 3 bedroom flat in the foggiest and most depressing district of San Francisco, Richmond - on 22nd and Balboa - just a day prior to getting kicked out by our tenant, who looked like the Chinese twin of Joan Collins. Sick and tired of getting rejected because of our nonexistent credit history, we really did not mind that the house looked exactly like the ones we have looked at over the past 15 exhausting days.
Everyday was a deja vous. Same carpet, same layout, same kitchen cabinets, same tasteless linoleum flooring, etc. Up to this very day, we still suspect that every apartment owner starting from Masonic all the way to Ocean Beach hired the same grotty contractor, who decided to redo all these houses exactly the same way just so he can get an extra discount for his bulk orders.
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