Saturday, April 16, 2011

go nuts over Turkish cuisine

4-16-2011 Sat. mild, storm.


WEEKEND BREAKFAST
--- coffee | coconut cream bread | scallion pancake | apple | Persian grapes
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- green tea
DINNER --- black eye pea and red onion pate with flat-bread crackers | spicy roasted peanuts | Greek white wine || watercress and soft goat cheese salad with radish, fennel and walnuts | Turkish feta cheese dill turnovers (puaca) | Spanish Rose || Persian flat bread with roasted red pepper relish, eggplant relish and cucumber yogurt dip | Lebanese cracked wheat with pine nuts and allspice | twice-cooked soy duck with pistachio and basil sauce | Italian primativo red wine || Turkish delight sweet pastries | Turkish anise liquor ( Raki )


salad watercress, goat cheese, walnuts

Puaca

relishes and dip


cracked wheat and soy duck


  • an eastern Mediterranean dinner for the vegetarian and wine connoisseur friends. five kinds of nuts are used in various ways: peanuts, pine nuts, hazelnuts, walnuts and pistachio.