Streets of Istanbul
I will always think in color, so imagine what a trip to Turkey does to me. It is just everywhere and all around, in the carpets, the jewellery and the food, which by the way taste like no other in the world as there is something in the earth there that just makes a tomato taste like a tomato and a brinjal taste like heaven.
Grand Bazaar
The Grand Bazaar is an onslaught to the senses and makes you feel giddy with excitement just to be there and experience it.
Jewels
Spice Market
I fell in love with their Biber spices. It is peppers, chile pepper, sweet peppers, hot peppers etc. and made up a good part of the weight I carried back in those suitcases. Can never go without it, ever again.
My jewels
Nowathome blogged the Jamie Oliver Tray Baked Chicken and I recreated the jewel-like colors of Turkey in the dish and added my Biber of course. I used the recipe with different colors peppers and added the Biber to the smoked paprika. Visit her post for exact measurements as my sister at Nowathome is better with that, I just shoot from the hip with cooking. The basics are that you combine chicken pieces, tomatoes, onion( I used red) garlic and peppers in a baking tray. Sprinkle with smoked paprika, salt and pepper and drizzle with olive oil? Bake at 180 Degrees Celsius until you are happy thar the chicken is cooked. Fantastic flavour and smell.
Smoked Paprika Tray Baked Chicken
The Turkish Delight, also out of the suitcase was the desert after the meal. How I did not have to pay overweight on the suitcases at the airport I honestly still do no know? The 1,5 kg of Turkish Delight was brought all the way back home intending to be gifts, well it never got that far sorry……..
Like a kid in a sweet shop
Random Photo:
Cheers Istanbul
Is the girl in the background really there or see through?
Apple Tea
Again looks delish! And all those colors! Stunning xx
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Dankie wens jy was saam.
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Love all the pictures! That chicken looks incredibly flavorful!
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Thank you. The chicken is great. The smoked paprika turns it into something unique.
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Turkey truly is a colorful country. It is nice that you could bring some of the color home with you and create that delicious looking chicken.
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Thank you and the smoked paprika is an absolute hit.
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I love this post and Turkey is a beautiful country 🙂
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Thank you and it is one of my favorite places on this earth.
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Makes me want to jump on the next plane!
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Dankie P! Me too……
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Lovely blog about Turkey! Wish I could go there too! Thanks for the pingback sister! 🙂
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Ag ek wens ook!
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Sjoe dit lyk lekker … Jou foto’s is besonders
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Baie dankie. Alles op iPhone.
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O die kleure is so pragtig!!! Mooiste fotos. En die kos!! Is dit een van ons etes in Desember…
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Dis n deal! Met jou mostert…..
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Love Turkish food, the real food (not Döner kebab), you can wake me up for it. Kiss!
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Haha! And wake up I did. The fruit and veg and bread just out of this world.
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It’s a pasion I share with you and also the colours and Turkish hospitality.
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Amazing place. I have been there before and could not wait to be back and now missing it already. One of those.
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I have never been there, but I grew up in Amsterdam in a very Turkish neighbourhood and my brother yes lived in Turkey for a while. 🙂
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I realised my latest comment wasn’t probably very clear. I meant that I grew up in a neighbourhood with a lot of Turkish immigrant families (with shops and restaurants etc), so that’s how I learnt about their culture, including the food 🙂
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Got that! And no wonder you miss it.
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