Easy Pizza

              Ingredients:

6 slices of bread (any kind)
100 gram of mozzarella cheese
A small handful of fresh basil
6 mushrooms
Pepperoni (quantity is optional)
1 green pepper
1 tablespoon of ketchup

              Instructions:

Chop the basil, pepper and mushrooms and mix them with pepperoni and mozzarella cheese.

Split the ketchup onto breads.

Put the mixture on your breads which you applied ketchup on.

Cook your easy pizza for 20 minutes.

                                                                                 Bon Appetit!

Creamy Garlic Bread

              Ingredients:

6 slices of bread
6 garlic cloves
100 gram of grated mozzarella
100 gram of butter
3 tablespoons of mayonnaise
2 tablespoon of olive oil
Large handful of chopped parsley

             Instructions:

Put the butter, garlic cloves, mayonnaise, olive oil, cream and parsley in a food processor.

Process them well and pass that mixture on your breads equally.

Put your breads in a preheated(180°C) oven and cook them for 20 minutes.

                                                                                Bon appetit!

Chicken and Vegetable Noodle

               Ingredients:

4 packs of noodle
2 carrots
10 cloves of garlic
A small onion
8-10 mushrooms
2 green peppers
1 red pepper
1 zucchini
250 grams of chicken thighs
1 tablespoon of chili(we used our homemade chili sauce, for the recipe: http://eatandshareit.blogspot.com/2013/11/chinese-hot-chili-sauce.html)
2 cups of soy sauce
3 spring onions
1,5 cups of bean sprouts
1/2 of white wine

              Instructions:

Fill a pan with 2 liters boiled water, add the salt and cook your noodle as prescribed on the package.
In the mean time, add some olive oil into a deep pan or a wok. 

Add the onion and garlics, chicken, peppers, chicken, mushrooms, zucchini, carrot, spring onions (in that order, all julienned) and mix them all.
Add the soy sauce and wine, keep mixing.

When all those ingredients are equally mixed, lower the heat down, add the bean sprouts and add your cooked noodle on them. 

Your noodle is ready!

                                                                                 Bon appetit!

Basil-Cream Potato Salad

Ingredients: 3 pounds of potatoes 50ml hot beef broth 2 cups loosely-packed fresh basil leaves 2 to 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 tablespoon freshly-squeezed lemon juice 1 teaspoon freshly-ground pepper  1 tablespoon pesto sauce 1/2 tablespoon coarse salt 1/2 tablespoon prepared honey mustard 1/2 cup cream 1/2 cup mayonnaise              Instructions: Cut the potatoes into bite-sized pieces, put them in a pan and cover the potatoes with water. Add the salt and cook the potatoes for 20 minutes. When it's read, drain the potatoes and put them in a large mixing bowl. In a food processor; mix the cream, beef broth, basil leaves, lemon juice, mustard, mayonnaise, pesto and garlic. Pour this mixture on the potatoes and mix them well. You can serve your salad warm our put it into your fridge and serve it cold. We decided to decorate ours with parsley and shaved cheddar.

Green Chicken Kebabs and Baked Potatoes

               Ingredients for the green chicken kebabs:

100 ml (2 table spoons) natural yogurt
2 garlic cloves, crushed
2 teaspoons of grated fresh ginger, ground cumin and salt
1 green chili, deseeded and finely chopped
Large handful of chopped coriander
Small handful of chopped mint
4 tablespoons of lemon juice
6 pieces of boneless chicken thighs, cubed

               Ingredients for the baked potatoes:

2 medium sized potatoes, peeled and cut into thin rounds
3 teaspoons of red pepper flakes, dried basil, dried mint, dried rosemary, chili pepper powder
2 tablespoons of olive oil

               Instructions for the green chicken kebabs:

Place the yogurt, garlic, ginger, cumin, salt, ground coriander, chili, chopped herbs, and lemon juice in a blender or food processor and blend until fairly smooth.

Place the chicken in a mixing bowl, add the mixture on it.
When the mixture is all around the chicken cubes, thread the chicken pieces on to 8 bamboo skewers and place them on a large pan. Cook them for 15-20 minutes, turning frequently until they are cooked and browned.

             
                Instructions for the baked potatoes:

Place the potatoes onto a greaseproof paper and add the olive oil and the herbs on it
Mix them all until you season all the potato pieces fairly

Cook them in a pre-heated (200°C) oven for 30 minutes.
Enjoy your meal with a green salad.

                                      
                                                                                                 Bon Appetit!

        

Cous Cous With Spinach Chicken and Mushrooms

         Ingredients:

10 medium spinach leaves

A small onion chopped

6 garlic cloves chopped

1 green pepper

200 gr chicken breast fillet thinly sliced

5 mushroom cat in small pices

1 1/2 Cup cous cous

50 gr grated parnesan

50 ml white wine

Around 3/5 cups of hot water

1 teaspoon black pepper

1 tsp paprika

3 tsp salt 

1 tsp dried basil

                                                   

      

           Instructions:

Stir the olive oil and add the onion,pepper and garlic

Then we add the mushrooms, chickens , and spinach one by one. 

Then add the wine and cook for about 5 mins until the alcohol evaporates

Add the hot water and cook until at low heat.

And it´s ready. Enjoy with some fresh basil. 

                                             
                                                                                             Bon appetit!
                                                                             

Stuffed Peppers*

Ingredients:

        For the mixture to stuff the peppers:

125 grams minced meat (beef and lamb mixed)

3/4 cup of white rice

1 medium tomato (peeled and finely chopped)

1/4 cup vegetable oil

A small onion chopped

1 tea spoon of salt, paprika, black pepper, dried mint, sumac

        For the sauce:

1 table spoon of tomato and pepper paste

1 head of garlic (half of it minced)

Enough water to cover the peppers (around 4 cups)

1 table spoon of pomegranate sauce

2 tea spoons of salt

1 tea spoon of dried spoon and paprica

       And of course:

10/11 big green peppers

            

                                 Our very green peppers.

       

Instructions:

Cut the peppers' heads and take the seeds out but don't throw the heads away. 

For the mixture, add all the ingredients into a bowl and knead dough until you have a homogenous mixture

Stuff 2/3 of each pepper with the mixture, place them vertically into a deep pan and cover them with the heads of the peppers. 

            

                                                      The mixture

    

                

                                                 That's how you stuff the peppers.

For the sauce, place the garlic, tomato and pepper paste and 3-4 cups of hot water into a bowl and mix them.

           

Ready to be cooked with its delicious sauce.

After placing the stuffed peppers, pour the sauce on it and cook it around 50-60 minutes on the stove.

And finally on the table with salad and -of course- flowers.

                                                       Bon appetit!

                                                                      

                     

*Stuffed peppers means Biber Dolması in Turkish.