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12 September, 2014 FRIDAY |
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We awoke this morning to the sun rising and the hot air balloons filling the sky. They couldn't go up yesterday because of weather. But from our breakfast veranda we could see the beautiful balloons dotting the landscape. Our entourage of 2 grand dames, 5 Spice Girls, 5 Oregon ducks and 2 CA beach Combers said goodbye to our Capadocian otel, Lale Saray, and headed to Rumi But first, a short stop because the Spice Girls hadn't yet parted with enough money. We helped the Capadocian economy by buying runners, evil eyes and other mementos. Nice panorama from our shopping area. We then went to the Goreme monastery. We hiked all thru the grounds There were 360 cells used to teach Christianity and revive the teachings of the Church. We saw the picture of "East meets West" with the Sultan and Jesus shaking hands, 300 to 400 AD. We also saw the famous female hermit with a beard descending past her navel. We posed for our first group picture. Following our Monastery departure, it was time to throw some mud. Under the tutelage of master Galip, who in his demonstration made it look easy, we all took a turn at the pottery wheel. Rich was clearly the favored student with Nancy right behind! Master Galip challenged us with questions which Erich and Nancy correctly answered and were rewarded with Galip gifts. Mildie was then asked to stand on a pot and try to break it. No matter how hard she tried, it remained in tact. We toured his gallery and quickly learned that most of his work was out of our price range. Nonetheless, there were works of his students that were affordable and most everyone left with a piece of pottery from the gallery. Lunch called us! Time for another feeding. We had "tin kabobs" which was a Turkish speciality served on a tin platter over a burner! Fabulous. For the next several hours we rolled along on the bus, seemingly through fields like Iowa, toward Konya, the first capital of the Selcuks. We stopped at a 12th century caravanserai. This is the best preserved example of a caravanserai that was on the silk road. The caravanserai was established by the Byzantine Empire to support trade on the silk road. Exhausted, we arrived at Otel Rumi. |
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sac kavurma
Ayran
Recipe FOR THE DAY
TIN KEBAB SAC
KAVURMA
ingredients:
1 pound of lean chunks of lamb ( chopped in cubes) 1 TBL SPOON butter, 5
green peppers, 2 onions, 2 tomatoes, 1 tsp oregano, 1 tsp paprica, salt
Chop the
vegetables, put the butter, and the meat in a pot. Stir the meat
until it changes color. Add the peppers and onions. Add the salt pepper
and the spices when you think the meat is cooked. Continue stirring the
meat when cooking.
When the meat and the
vegetables are done, add the tomatoes and turn the heat off. Decorate it
with parsley to serve.
Ayran
ingredients: Yogurt, water,
salt
This will be best if you do it in a blender. Mix 2 tbs of thick yogurt
with water and a speck of salt to taste.
The amount of water depends on how thick the yogurt is. the consistency
should be the consistency of milk
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