We love our hummus, and I love beets. I thought I should experiment with it and add some to the hummus. It’s so delicious! You can’t even tell there’s beets in it. I only had one large golden beet, if you have small ones I guess 2-3 would do. …
Meze Appetizers
Rubik’s Cube Salad
Playing with my food again….I have been wanting to try the Rubik’s cube salad for a while now but I was intimidated as I am not good with chopping and cutting. I tried my best to make the cubes the same size and put it all together, I think I did okay for the first time. It is no where close to the perfect ones I have seen on the net…but for me it’s good! …
Refrigerator Dill Pickles
Who doesn’t like a crunchy dill pickle? I love them, problem is some jar labels can be deceiving! I hate when that happens…you open a jar of pickles and they turn out soggy and flimsy! Crispy and crunchy is what I want…so you know the saying when you want something done do it yourself! I took those words and ran with it to the kitchen and made my own pickles :)…
Refrigerator Pickled Beets & Deviled Eggs
I love pickled beets! When I was a kid I was attracted to the colour more so than to the taste…but then I eventually started to like the taste of them as well.
I had a bunch of beets ready to be picked out of the garden and I knew what I wanted to make with them. I unfortunately found out that I cannot can on my flat glass stove top unless I invest in a flat pot canner…since I doubt I will be doing that much canning, I think I will stick to refrigerator pickles. …
Dolma – Sarma Stuffed Grape Leaves
Dolma or also known as sarma, stuffed grape leaves are one of the most popular appetizers in the Mediterranean. You can make them with meat or without, I make both, I prefer meatless to be honest. …
Eggplant with Garlic Yogurt Sauce
Eggplant is great when grilled, paired with garlic yogurt sauce and you won’t be able to put your fork down! You can use grilled eggplant, roasted or pan fried….all work and taste great! You can have this as a side dish, or as lunch on its own with bread….
Cacik – Cucumber Yogurt Sauce
In Turkish its called Cacik pronounced ‘gagik’, in Albanian its called tarator, and in Greek its called tzatziki, in what ever language you wanna call it….it’s delicious! I make a variety of tarators every week, we like to have some kind of veggie and yogurt with our dinner.
This goes well with many dishes and even on it’s own with bread. …
Beet & Yogurt Dip -Pancar Salatasi
Pancar salatasi means beet salad or dip in Turkish, it’s like tzatziki ot tarator made with beets instead of cucumbers. I found these lovely candy & golden beets at the grocery store, so I made three different dips. They’re all naturally gorgeous in colour, you can make it with different colour beets for a pretty presentation or just make it with one, all are perfectly wonderful! …
Potato Clouds
Thank you for helping me choose a name for this lovely side! Potato clouds! Aren’t they pretty? They are so easy to make too, and taste great! Make your simple mash into something wonderfully delicious! …
Pogaca
Pogača is popular all over the Balkans….it’s made in different shapes and sizes! The dough is soft and the filling simple. Great served as an appetizer or on your breakfast table.
It took me a few times to get the dough perfect….I like soft dough sometimes pogaca can be dry depending on who makes it, and I don’t like dry bread! Once I got the measurements correct I wrote it down right away! The problem is I am used to measuring with North American measurements when baking, where as in Turkey for example a cup is actually a Turkish glass teacup. I cannot tell you how many times I made something and mixed up the measuring cups….