Showing posts with label autumn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label autumn. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Fırında Pancar Cipsi



Havaların da soğumasıyla, pancar, turp gibi kök sebzeler de raflarda ve tezgahlarda yerlerini almaya başlıyor. Benim en sevdiğim sebzelerden biri olan pancarı aslında pişirmeyi çok da sevdiğim söylenemez. Eldiven takmaktan nefret eden bir insan olduğum için her seferinde pespembe parmaklarla ertesi gün dolaşmak zorunda kalmak gerçekten çok sinir bozucu. 

Yine çok üşengeç olduğum bir gün, Palivor Çiftliği diye bir markanın "pancar cipsi" diye bir ürün çıkardığını gördüm ve denemek istedim. Çıtır çıtır, hafif tatlı bu kıtır yuvarlaklar çıt çıt dizi karşısında çok güzel gitti. Ben de minik bir pakete 13 lira vermektense bir dahaki sefere kendim denemeye karar verdim. İlk başta pazardan aldığım normal çiğ pancarları bir güzel soygum, ince bir mandolin yardımıyla dilimledim ama parmaklarım az önce de bahsettiğim üzere pespembe olunca bir daha uğraşmak istemedim. 

Sonraki sefer, sizin de fotoğraflarda göreceğiniz üzere, marketten hazır aldığım soyulmuş ve pişirilmiş pancarlarla denedim. Dürüst olmak gerekirse çiğ pancardan yaptığım daha çıtır ve lezzetli olmuştu. Bu nedenle size de parmaklarınızı boyama riskini almanızı ve çiğ pancar kullanmanızı tavsiye ederim. 

Patates cipsine sağlıklı bir alternatif arıyorsanız bunu denemenizi öneririm.

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Oatmeal Cookies


Taking a bite from a spicy and cinnamon flavoured cookie in the chilly winter days is definitely the cure as a mood booster. I have been extremely stressful with all the school work and testa. I find it almost impossible to cook. But I also believe that cooking and especially baking are stress relieving activities. Winter is the most wonderful time of the year to bake. That is why I have been baking recently rather than cooking. 

As a person who does not love sweet things very much, I do have some sweet cravings from time to time. One of my favorite sweet foods to snack on are cookies. My ultimate favorite is the Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe which has become a family classic nowadays. After baking the chocolate chip recipe for many years, I was eventually bored after a certain time. When I was going through my recipe book in order to find something new and different to bake, I bumped into a recipe from 4-5 years ago. 

This recipe is from my 6th grande English teacher. She is an amazing person and she was an inspiration to me. I was interested cooking before 6th grade but I started the real deal that year. Our English teacher used to bring cookies to our class that were very different from the cookies that my mom used to bake. They were soft and chewy and I fell in love with them since most of the cookies that my mom baked were crunchy and hard.

I waited to get a bite from my English teacher's various types of cookies every time she walked into the class with a large box. And every single one of those cookies were beyond amazing. They were not traditional cookies that we have here in Turkey and that is why I found them very interesting and unique. I had those types of cookies in Starbucks and in some cafés but being able to cook them at my own oven was fantastic. 

This oatmeal cookie recipe is delicious and has a very important significance to me. Every time I bake these cookies, I remember 6th grade and our English lessons with cookies. That is why I want to thank my English teacher for the recipes and for being an inspiration to me that made me start cooking and baking for real. 
Here is the recipe for the Oatmeal Cookies, I hope you'll enjoy:


Friday, November 14, 2014

Creamy Pumpkin Soup with Chips


A couple of years ago, I hated pumpkin from the bottom of my heart. My aunt and my grandmother used to cook pumpkin dessert with walnuts for our holidays. But I wasn't just into it. 

But one day, my parent and I went to Sapanca, a town in here in Turkey. Sapanca is one of my favorite places to go in autumn because the lake and the trees there are amazing during fall season. Here are some photos from Sapanca.