Fruit : Cafe Fernando – Food Blog

Thank God I can bake. Because otherwise, after seeing what I saw, I would have just died. Since you're reading a food blog, you must have come across the Chez Panisse 40th anniversary photos. And since you're alive, you MUST know how to bake. Because otherwise, you couldn't have survived after seeing what I saw. More specifically, assuming you did see it, you must have baked this plum galette. ...

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If I had a dollar for every post I postponed posting... Well, that would make me a professional procrastinator and nothing else. Here's what usually happens: I get excited about a fruit or a vegetable, come across season's finest at the farmers market, decide on a recipe on my way home, cook/bake it, take photos and sit down to eat. By the time I'm ready to write about ...

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It's that time of the year again: Pomegranates everywhere. Well, at least in Istanbul. I consider myself very lucky as Turkey is one of the native lands of the pomegranate. And you're lucky, too. Because if you're looking for ideas on what to do with pomegranates, you've come to the right place. Here are a few pomegranate recipes from Cafe Fernando archives as well as some of my favorite ...

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I made up something called a Monday Morning Syndrome Cake a while ago. It is basically a cake that you bake on a Sunday night, which helps you to survive the cubicle cabin fever on the first working day of the week.  And somewhere along the line I completely forgot about this genius idea. No wonder why I've been grumpy on Monday mornings lately. So when I received ...

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My father has the strictest morning routine I have ever seen. He wakes up at 6:30 AM, goes for a 45-minute walk, takes a shower, eats his breakfast and he's on his way to work at 8:00 AM sharp. This has been his routine for as long as I can remember. Stricter than his morning routine is the list of things he eats at breakfast. A slice ...

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