Fergie says it all. December is usually a busy month for most people. It is the holidays, between parties and other things the month seems to fly by. In addition December is exam month for my students, so there is…
Year: 2012
In Turkey, November 24th is Teacher’s Day. Inside and outside of one of my cards. (We are still practicing articles. There are none in Turkish. My kids think they are tricky—clearly.) Teacher’s day is a serious business in Turkey. …
So in June Bülent and I watched the documentary Forks over Knives which promotes unprocessed foods and veganism. It advocates a plant based diet with no refined oils and lower ingestion of oily foods, such as avocados and nuts. We…
Last night my friends hosted an early Thanksgiving. They normally go to Austria for Thanksgiving holiday and celebrate it the week before. My friend’s husband was diagnosed with a gluten allergy last year and is still being tested for Celiac…
Last week Bülent had to go to Çeşme for the Turkish Economic Association conference. It was at the Altin Yunus, a five star hotel. Unfortunately it rained for most of the week. I joined him on Friday and it rained…
This holiday is also known as the Feast of Sacrifice. This is a very important Islamic holiday which celebrates willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his first-born son Ishmael. The sacrifice was not completed as God intervened and had Abraham sacrifice a ram…
The last week weeks I have been fighting colds, coughs and fatigue. While I am still having sleep issues (Friday night I did not fall asleep until 4:30 a.m., the fatigue is better. I think a lot of it was…
Feeling so drained. I have been working on the Cooking Page revision project, and if you have noticed, there are some shifts and changes in my blog. Comments and suggestions are appreciated. While I am not done yet, the structure…
A while back I created an Ev Yemeği/Home Cooking page, which has been sadly neglected, thought I cook all the time. When I post recipes, I have been doing so in a haphazard way. So over the next few weeks…