Kol burek me presh or swirled burek with leek is one of my favourite bureks! Well, I actually grew up with it as lakror which is a traditional Albanian type burek. …
Vegetables
Potato & Corn Patties
Has this ever happened to you? You have a big dinner and you end up with leftover mashed potatoes and sides? I usually end up with leftover corn or peas or both combined. Here is a great way to make use of the leftovers and have a whole new side dish for dinner! …
Scalloped Potatoes with Leek
Tired of the same old mashed potato as a side dish? I got just the thing for you! I love these scalloped potatoes, its easy to make and its so yummy! Its always a hit at my dinner parties, everyone loves it!
Leeks usually come in batches of three, what I do when I get them from the store is prepare them all and freeze the extra, that way you always have them ready to use for your next leek dish, that is if your not planning on using all of them at once!;)…
Pesto Rapini Potato Salad
I had my cousins over for dinner tonight and I made a delicious homemade spaghetti sauce served with spaghetti, of course. I was in need for a side dish, I had some rapini but not enough to feed two families with! I needed to ‘bulk’ it up a bit! Since I was craving potato salad today and was planning on making rapini, I came up with this delicious salad.
I get this pesto sauce from an Italian delicatessen, it’s called ‘Berni’ Pesto al Basilico. I only mention it so that I don’t forget the name of it (I have a bad memory), it is made in Italy and it tastes so good! Of course nothing beats homemade pesto, but I like to keep a jar of this stuff for an easy dinner or side dish starter….
Fennel Turkish Style – Zeytinyagli Taze Rezene
This is the only way I have tried fennel and I absolutely love it! Funny too cause I do not like licorice yet I love fennel surprisingly! It tastes and smells just like it! One of my best friends Hatice taught me this dish, it goes really nicely with plain yogurt on the side. My friend prepares this with stew meat, and it turns out so tender and yummy….I never have such luck so I use ground beef. I usually have cooked ground beef in the fridge to add to dishes like this. …
Green Beans with Olive Oil – Zeytinyagı Taze Fasulye
Green Beans with Olive Oil – Zeytinyagı Taze Fasulye in Turkish, is a simple and tasty one pot vegetarian dish. You can serve with rice on the side and plain yogurt, or add freshly grated garlic to the yogurt and season with salt; that goes really nice with this dish. …
Tomato and Cucumber Salad
Tomato and cucumber salad is one of my favourite salads! Its easy to make, and is good for you! My kids love this with fresh bread just like I did when I was a kid…dipping the bread in the juices is the best part! I like to add feta cheese to it as well sometimes. It makes for a great side dish or on its own for lunch. …
Guacamole
Guacamole is probably the most requested recipe that I get ask for from my friends, been making it for years and shared it on my FB group years ago…for some reason I never made a post about it on the blog. It’s definitely blog worthy, so what took me so long to post it? Oh well, I am posting it now, enjoy!…
Turlu – Mixed Vegetable Stew
Turlu is a mixed vegetable stew in Albanian and Turkish Cuisine. Meat is added as well, either stew or ground meat and its optional you may make it vegetarian if you like.
Rice is served on the side along with yogurt for those who like it, my children do! Its a healthy stew filled with a variety of veggies, tasty too!
There is no real measurements for this recipe, when I go to the grocery store I just grab the fresh green beans and okra, so I checked my receipt to give you an idea of how much you need, and the green beans came to 0.365 kg and the okra came to 0.425 kg so both don’t even come to a full lb!
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Roasted Brussel Sprouts
Not sure why my kids don’t like brussel sprouts, when they were little I used to call them baby cabbage…then they heard that they’re called brussel sprouts and that was it! They didn’t want to eat them anymore! I hope that phase will end and they will soon come around!:)…