Tabouleh

Tabouleh that Emre made last night was soo good, so I decided to post the recipe!

Ingredients:
1 bunches of fresh parsley (finely chopped)
Half bunches of fresh mint (finely chopped)
Half bunches of green onion (finely chopped)
3 small tomates (chopped)
1/2 cup Bulgur
1 Lemmon
2 table spoon extra virgin olive oil
Salt and Pepper to taste



Directions:
1. Soak bulgur in hot water for 1 to 1.5 hours until soft, then squeeze out excess water
2. Combine lemmon juice and olive oil in a bowl
3. Add parsley, mint, green onion, tomates, and bulgur to the bowl and toss
4. Season to taste with salt and pepper


He also made Humus from scrach, so I made pita sandwich with Tabouleh, Humus, and chiken. That was also DEH-LI-CIOUS!!

Cream cheese and white chocolate truffles

I made cream cheese and white chocolate truffles for this year's valentine's day. Chocolate truffles? Sounds complicated? No, the recipe is super simple!!

Ingredients:
1box Philadelphia cream cheese
40g white chocolate (melted)
3 table spoon sugar
1 tea spoon rum
1 table spoon dried fruits　
1 table spoon walnuts (roughly chopped)
Unsweetened cocoa powder




Directions:
1. Mix well all ingredients but cocoa.
2. Cover and refrigerate the mixture until firm, at least 2 hours.
3. Using a small spoon, roll the mixture into 1-inch balls and roll each ball into the coco powder. Ready to serve!!

Valentine's day special: Roasted rack of lamb

Here is the recipe!

Grilling, roasting, or broiling?

What's the difference? I thought they were all the same. But my boyfriend claims that they are all different cooking methods.

Şiş Kebap - Turkish Shish Kebab part II

This recipe is from  my Turkish boy friend, so this must be an authentic kebab!!

Homemade Condensed Milk

Every time I try to buy canned condensed milk, I hesitate to buy it because I don't use a whole can at a time and the expiration date has passed before I know it.  So, I have decided to stop buying it and make my own condensed milk.

Many recipes, however, call for butter and powdered milk.  Noooo, no,no,no!  I don't want to use butter because I want to be healthy as much as I can.  Also, I usually don't have powdered milk in my kitchen.  So I need a recipe without buying any special ingredients and finally I found this one!!

How do you preserve egg white?

Many recipes call for yolk only.   Then, you will keep the leftover egg whites in the refrigerator and by the time you figure out what to do with them, they've gone bad.   This is an easy way to freeze the egg whites.   

Strawberry Sorbet

Ingredients:

1/2 lb/ about 220g strawberries, washed and stemmed
1 cup yogurt
1/2 cup milk
1/3 cup sugar
1 tsp lemon juice