This weekend Lady Hiva and I had a traditional Turkish
breakfast. Over the last few weeks we have eaten all of the ingredients here
and there, but this was the FULL experience.
Turks use so many tomatoes and peppers for their foods. They
sell tomatoes here like Americans sell bananas—they are sold in bulk and no
matter where you are, they have them for sale. Naturally, a Turkish Breakfast
includes tomatoes! Other items are several flavors of cheese, bread, fruit,
nuts, eggs, and cucumber. All of these ingredients I LOVE—oh I forgot to
mention the olives (which I don’t love ever since I threw up a whole can of
black olives on the back stairs of my Aunt Heidi’s wedding, but hey, that leaves
more for someone else, right?).
Typically, Lady Hiva is anti-tomatoes, but ever since we
have been in Turkey she has learned to love them. One of her favorite dishes so
far was a raw salad with diced tomatoes, onions, parsley, and walnuts. I was
happy to see her even try it because it was 75% tomatoes and then the next day
she bought all of the ingredients to make it at home! I guess things change…I
am still not liking olives though. I have really tried too. I eat a few and then the lymph nodes swell and my
gag reflex begins to make me salivate and I have to stop before it gets too
far. So props to Lady for loving tomatoes now! HEHE
One of our friends booked a beautiful restaurant for the
breakfast and we all went. The view was spectacular! The restaurant was in a
private club park on the Asian side of Istanbul that overlooked the Bosphorus.
We sat right next to the window as we ate. The waiters brought out plate after
plate of foods that you eat until you are full—we all wanted to try and eat as
much as we could and soon were full but still had SO much food left.
It was a a gorgeous day so we sat by the pool and enjoyed
the view and the sea breeze. Lucky did not appreciate that we were so close to
a blue pool and we were not letting him into it. I promised him we would go
when we arrived back home.
However, that changed when we stopped to shop at the street
market for some vegetables and the beautiful sunny day suddenly turned to
lightening and RAIN! We were soaked by the time we pushed our cart of
vegetables up the hill to home. Memories, memories. I guess any normal day
needs some type of adventure!
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