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No knead Ramazan Pidesi / Turkish Pide bread (flat bread) with step by step pictures

Selam everybody...........Merhaba from Türkiye

Bread or ekmek we call in Turkish language, is staple of all food in Türkey as well very much important in Turkish culture. Not just bread, we treat our food with respect. Wasting foods (bread) is disrespect and günah or sin.
Eat and finish what you take.

Bread is always on our dinner table. Serve morning to evening. Dip in a hot creamy soup, eaten with turkish köfte (meatball) in between or any meal. Or just simply spread with salça (homemade tomato paste) for hurry brunch.

You can find dozen type of ekmek/ bread in market or local fırın (bakery) which always serve fresh and hot bread from traditional big stone oven. And there is one bread that special baked at special occasion, Ramadhan or Ramazan. İt's Ramazan pidesi.

There are many classic dishes that are associated with Ramazan in Turkey. But no other item signifies the breaking of the fast better than a loaf of pide (read; pee-deh).
Ramazan pidesi, it's round and rather flat in form, and having a weave-like patterned crust shape by fingers.

Ramazan pidesi is made of wheat flour with yeast, rub with egg wash and topped with sesame and black sesame seed.

It is traditionally served for the iftar and sahur meals during the holy month of Ramadan
is highlight bread in turkey during Ramadhan month.

Bakeries all over Turkey provide this Ramazan pidesi hot and fresh about an hour or two before iftar time. So you will see a long queue in front of fırın/ bakery before iftar time to get this delicious pide hot from oven during the month of Ramadhan.

How to prepare and cook beef (ox) tongue / Cara memasak lidah sapi

Hello everybody....Merhaba from Türkiye.

For some people eating offal or other part of animal sounds gross. Or maybe some of you just don't know how to prepare or cook them.

Offal could be delicious as normal meat if we know how to cook it, for example cow's feet (or legs) or (beef) tongue. You can be hooked once you taste delicious meal using those animal part because it prepared correct and cook it clever way.

Today İ am going to share a tip how to prepare and cook beef tongue. Beef tongue is lean meat that can be very tasty. But when you didn't cook it properly it can be pretty chewy and almost rubbery.

Since it's quite lean as İ mentioned above, it'll took sometimes to cook to have butter-soft texture which we look for. Some said 30 minute per pound, some said an hour.
Personally İ didn't really using timer or whatsoever, İ just cooked and check my beef (ox) tongue periodically and test it by insert a big fork in thickest part of tongue, when it easily slip off from the fork it' done.

Red Velvet Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

Merhaba from Türkiye Everybody....... Selam

Me and red velvet cake is like friend in exploratory stage 😃.
İ enjoy and baking this cake since long time ago but still İ need to explore it more and try get along with it often 😊

Yes.. İ can't denied that İ fall in love in this red velvety color cake, with delicious slightly tangy of cream cheese frosting.
İ baked many RVC before and still want to bake more 😏

You can check my Cheesecake between Red Velvet cake here, or try my unique Steamed Red Velvet Brownie here- you'll get shock how it easy to make and so delish!
And if you want to impress your family with Swiss Roll Cake.. you should try my Red Velvet Cake roll here.

And today İ'll post my favorite Red Velvet Cake again.
İ baked this seriously moist and delicious Red Velvet cake my my kid's birthday 🎂. And since this cake for her she was the one who decorated the cake with small colorful heart candy 😍 . her fave.

İ didn't decorate much, just thinly cover the cake with my cream cheese frosting, piped some star shape and using cake's crumb to make it more nice 😊

For the cake İ use 2 deep pans with diameter 18cm (about 8") and cut each cake into two.
İ wrapped my baked cake with plastic film after cool and keep in refrigerator over night before frosting.

Turkish Food Recipe; Köfteli Patates Yemeği / Potato and meatballs in tomato sauce

Selam everybody...... Merhaba from Türkiye

Knowing about Turkish foods is like reading history book, so old with many surprising delicious fact. İt might because mostly Turkish cuisine is the heritage of Ottoman cuisine from centuries ago.

It is also has mixture and refinement of Central Asian, Middle Eastern and Balkan cuisines. Therefore it is impossible to fit Turkish cuisine into a short list.

İncluding my post today is one of daily meal which mostly Turkish mothers serve for the family. Köfteli patates is home style meal that served generation to generation. Every kids fan of their mom's version of this food 😍

İt's a potato cook in tomato sauce, adding small meatball to meet the family taste. Some version adding ground beef instead of meatballs. Sprinkle with dried mint leaves this meal is a must to try when you visit Turkiye.

My Homemade Plum sauce / Saus Buah Prem

Selam Everybody....... Merhaba from Türkiye.

Plum sauce, is one of staple condiment in Asian cuisine. İt's sweet and sour basic sauce can be used for cooking or dipping sauce such as spring roll, dumpling, fried chicken, roasted duck and more.

Store bought plum sauce mostly has viscous brown to dark brown in color. Unlike when we make it at home, the color tends to light red to dark one.. just like plum's color.
İ have no idea what kind of plum used for making plum sauce at manufacture so they can produce light brown to dark brown color.

But for sure my homemade plum sauce is definitely make from fresh plum, rich with spices and guaranteed keeper recipe for staple condiment for your pantry.

So if you are Asian food lover or want to have something go along with your dimsum or roasted duck/ chicken.. make sure you keep this recipe ✍

FUDGE BROWNIES copycat recipe

Selam everybody.... Merhaba from Turkiye.

Not so hot summer this June. And İ love it. Even İ am tropical person, summer in Turkey could be pretty much dry and boring. İ live in Marmara region and rain comes like every 2 or 3 days, so refreshing.

Just like this weekend, cloudy so heavy cloudy.

And to cheer up our gray week end İ was thinking to make something wonderful chocolaty sweet thing. something fast and easy to make yet everybody would love to enjoy it.

Yep.. brownie. Also İ didn't bake it for quite sometime after I got my toothache few months ago.

Melt in your mouth Peanut butter spritz cookies / Semprit selai kacang yang nagih enaknya

Selam everybody... Merhaba from Türkiye.

Cookies, one of snack I never bore to make and to create for new flavor. Everyday must be at least a jar full of cookies at our house 🍪

Beside other dessert or meal İ bake cookies at least once in few days. So if you visit my house.. don't worry... you always get any cookies accompany our tea or coffee 🍵

Please do check my Cookies category for more than 50 yummy cookies recipe İ shared.

And today İ will share my ultimate melt in your mouth peanut butter spritz cookies. This cookie added on my fave cookies now.

İt's dream cookies for peanut butter lover. You can taste peanut butter so obviously enrich this butter cookies.
İt's melt in your mouth and so so addicted one! 😋 So Yummy!

The Eid el Fitr will come soon... maybe İ would add this cookies on my Eid holiday's cookies list too 😏
Try it... maybe it would be your new fave too 😊

Melt in your mouth Peanut butter spritz cookies
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Orange Chocolate Marble Roll Cake.No Fail recipe / Bolu gulung marmer rasa jeruk sunkist yang lezat dan mudah.

Resep dalam Bhs Indonesia ada dibagian bawah

Selam everybody......Merhaba from Türkiye.

A Swiss roll is a very impressive cake and looks quite difficult to make, which is why people often shy away from baking them.
İn fact actually..tell you the truth, it's one of intriguing dessert to try. İf you never bake one before you might feel kinda worry it'll end up cracking or disaster.

But once you succeed... believe me, you will not not stop until you bake many of them with many filling, many various flavors or even playing with the decoration and pattern 😤