Pirinç Çorbası / Rice Soup

Ingredients for two 1 tomato 1 teaspoon full of butter 2 tablespoon full of  rice salt a few mint leaves 1/2 lemon 2 glasses of water How to cook After removing any labels on it and washing grate tomato with skin on on a plate. Put butter on a nonstick pan with grated tomato and…

#morningthoughts Monotonous

Monotonous.. how can we change it? From dictionary monotonous: məˈnɒt(ə)nəs/ adjective: dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and interest.”the statistics that he quotes with monotonous regularity” synonyms: tedious, boring, dull, uninteresting, unexciting, wearisome, tiresome,repetitive, repetitious, unvarying, unchanging, unvaried, lacking variety,without variety, humdrum, ho-hum, routine, mechanical, mind-numbing,soul-destroying, prosaic, run-of-the-mill, uneventful, unrelieved, dreary,plodding, colorless, featureless, dry as…

#eveningthoughts March 07, 2015

Computers and me My first meeting with computers was at Middle East University in 1974 when my high school in Ankara managed a trip for us to the university. The main idea behind that trip was showing us the kinds of professions. In short from that trip two things still alive in my head. The…

#promenade around #Turkey

I’m thinking from where to begin. I really do not know if I did not move here I would be closer to my high school friends or not. Last year in August I moved out and rented a flat around Kartal. So I am near a few of my high school friends since then. At…

#promenade in İstanbul – Küçüksu Palace, Göksu

Yesterday with my high school’s alumni association I went to Küçüksu Palace again. This was my second visit. First time I went there with some friends from one IT association. Both time we had lunch at Sabancı Öğretmenevi (Sabancı teachers’ house). Let me explain what is teachers’ house, as its name says they are for…

#w830tr Pazı yapraklı fırın mücver – #w830tr Squash and chard leaf oven hash browns

#w830tr Pazı yapraklı fırın mücver İçindekiler: 2 ufak kabak 3-4 ufak yaprak pazı 1 yumurta 1 çorba kaşığı ayçiçeği yağı 2 dilim beyaz peynir 3 dilim kekikli edam peyniri Tuz, karabiber Aldığı kadar un 1 paket Kabartma tozu Kabaklar ve pazı yaprakları yıkanır. Kabakların her iki ucu kesilir ve kabak soyacağı  ile kabaklar çizilir.Kabak soyacağı…

#w8.30tr Oya’s orange cake

Let’s begin with #w830tr Oya’s orange cake’s ingredients. For syrup: 2 oranges 1 lemon 100 gr sugar For the cake: 150 gr margarine 150 gr sugar 150 gr all purpose flour 3 eggs 1 and a half teaspoonful of baking powder We begin with syrup.. After washing lemon and oranges I grate them in a…