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Honey Cake (Medovik) – Step by Step
In my recent interview to Women’s Forum I mentioned that I didn’t cook much back in Azerbaijan, but that I baked a few cakes. Well, honey cake, known as medovik or medoviy tort...
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Banana and Berries with Cream
This recipe for banana and berries with cream comes from my good friend’s mom, aunt Turkan. I love it. Aunt Turkan uses plums and grapes in addition to banana and berries and tosses...
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Spiced Banana-Walnut Loaf
I made this delicious spiced banana-walnut loaf bread a couple of days ago and it was gone in an instant. The bread is filled with a thick cinnamon-perfumed walnut ripple that is swirled into the...
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Chocolate Banana Bread
Finally! It happened. I am launching my newly redesigned blog! Thank you very much for all your encouraging comments and emails I’ve been receiving along the way. I haven’t blogged in a while...
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Rice Pilaf with Butternut Squash and Beans
“When are you going to change that cookie picture on your blog?,” a good friend of mine recently reproached me. She is right. I have been away for too long. But my mind has always...
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Turkish White Bean Salad (Fasulye Piyazi)
Piyaz is a classic Turkish white bean salad that appears on our table whenever it becomes heavily carnivorous, especially when we make kababs. It goes great as an accompaniment to meats, but it...
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Dried Bean Stew (Mash Shorbasi)
My ancestors are from the city of Ordubad in Azerbaijan. Even though neither my parents nor my sister and I were born there, we have been influenced by the food of that region...
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Azerbaijani-Style Stuffed Grape Leaves, Dolma (Video)
This post was originally published on January 16, 2008, and I am updating the recipe today with the video from my new YoutTube Channel – AZCookbook with Feride. Please SUBSCRIBE to it and...
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Turkish “Split-Belly” Stuffed Eggplant
My love for eggplant! It is a never-ending love affair. I even have a childhood “trauma” associated with it. I remember that day clearly, now after so many years. I was probably about...
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Kufte-Bozbash or Azerbaijani Meatball Soup
Today’s recipe is for kufte-bozbash, more commonly called just kufte. This is one of the staples of Azerbaijani cuisine. Jumbo apple-size meatballs cooked in a simple broth with chickpeas and potatoes. Kufte is...
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Pasta With Ground Meat and Yogurt Topping
On chilly winter days a few things can be as comforting to Azerbaijanis as gathering around a table to enjoy warm and satisfying pasta dishes, khemir khorekleri (dough dishes), that come in a...
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Meat-Stuffed Flatbread (Et Gutabi)
It has been more than a year since my last trip to Azerbaijan. Memories are still hovering fresh above my head and it feel like I was there yesterday. I do miss many...
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Cabbage Rolls Stuffed with Meat
Hi there. I am back (did I sound like I just awoke from a winter sleep or what?). I hope you all had a great time during the holidays. Happy New Year to...
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Lahmajun and Yogurt Drink, Ayran
I am a huge fan of Turkish food. Have been even since I tried my first doner kabab in Baku, sometime back in the early 90s (boy, was I excited!), when the Soviet...
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Meat Stuffed Blinchiki (Crêpes)
One of the Russian foods that were imported to Azerbaijan when the country was a part of the Soviet Union, is the Russian pancake called blini, also known as blinchiki (plural for blinchik)...
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Red as Red Can Be – Borsch
Borsch (also known as borscht) is one of the most popular soups across the vast region of Eastern Europe. Originating in Ukraine, it traveled to Azerbaijan during the Soviet reign and has been ever since...
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Stuffed Eggplants, Peppers and Tomatoes
This is probably the most popular dish prepared in Azerbaijan in summer. When vegetables and fruits are in abundance, Azerbaijani women like to stuff them:) They stuff eggplants, peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, onions, quince...
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Pirojki (Piroshki) with Potato or Meat
The family just can’t get enough of pirojki or piroshki—hand pies stuffed with delicious savory fillings, including mashed potato, sauteed ground beef, cabbage or green peas. Pirojki are believed to have originated from...
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Bulgur Salad with Beets and Apples
A few weeks ago, we were invited to a dinner, where our friend, a fantastic cook, Yasemin of Yasemin’s Kitchen, spread an irresistible Turkish feast we absolutely fell in love with. Among the...
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Garlicky Beet Salad with Yogurt and Walnuts
Tell me what comes to your mind when you read the blog title? Let me guess. Perhaps, just like me, you think it sounds super duper healthy? Am I right or am I...
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Red as Red Can Be – Borsch
Borsch (also known as borscht) is one of the most popular soups across the vast region of Eastern Europe. Originating in Ukraine, it traveled to Azerbaijan during the Soviet reign and has been ever since...
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Fresh Berry Pavlova Cake (Video)
This post was originally published on August 13, 2011 and I am updating it today with the video recipe from my new YoutTube Channel – AZCookbook with Feride. Please SUBSCRIBE to it and...
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Blueberry Bundt Cake
A few days ago, I ventured into making my very first blueberry Bundt cake to take to a picnic with friends. I thought it would be a perfect accompaniment to black tea we...
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Blueberry-Oatmeal Crunch Bars
Year 2002. We are in Los Angeles, just moved here, newly married. One day our family friend Jim Porter walks into our apartment holding a plate with something looking absolutely delicious. Jim made...
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Grated Pie Filled with Fruit Preserves
So I had this grand idea of redesigning my blog a little (nothing major) to start the near year’s blogging afresh, but little did I know that redesigning a blog was not as...
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Summer Berry Yogurt Loaf Cake
When I saw the recipe for Raspberry Lime Yogurt Pound Cake on Elle’s New England Kitchen, I knew I had to make it as soon as possible. I love berries and I find...
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Chocolatiest Crinkles
A very brief description of these chocolatiest crinkles would be something like this: They are darn good! They are chewy on the inside and crispy on the outside. And beware, they disappear fast....
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Old-Fashioned Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
In the beginning, long time ago, I didn’t bake oatmeal cookies. They came in from our favorite store, Costco. Murat was the only one who ate them. Kids found them too “cinnamony.” I...
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Bulgur Salad with Beets and Apples
A few weeks ago, we were invited to a dinner, where our friend, a fantastic cook, Yasemin of Yasemin’s Kitchen, spread an irresistible Turkish feast we absolutely fell in love with. Among the...
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Turkish Bulgur Salad
I have to be punished. I disappeared for the longest time again. Consider this a lame excuse, but I have been trying to adjust to my new life with a full time job,...
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Bulgur Croquettes with Walnut-Tomato Sauce
Remember the recipe for baked honey chicken wings that turned me into a selfish glutton? From the book laden with kid-friendly recipes? Anne, Ben Aciktim which from Turkish is “Mommy, I am hungry”...
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Feseli, Flaky Flatbread (Plain or Spiced)
In my baking class recently, along with other traditional and contemporary bakes, we made feseli, a flaky flatbread from Azerbaijan. The recipe, published in “Pomegranates & Saffron,” received raving reviews from class participants...
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Baked Lemon-Garlic Steelhead Trout
After a dozen experiments with toppings for a fish fillet to bake in the oven, I am finally ready to announce the winner. It is butter-lemon-garlic topping. Very simple. Made with butter, garlic,...
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Double Crust Apple Pie
I love fruits pies, and the all American apple pie happens to be in the list of my favorites. Homemade all American apple pie is my double favorite. Guess what. It is really...
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Pie Crust, or Pâte Brisée
Making pie crust, or pâte brisée, from scratch is easy as pie. Seriously. It’s not rocket science. OK, some store bought pies may be good, but once you make your own, you will...
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Guyanese Butter-Flaps
I hadn’t had the slightest idea about Caribbean food until one day I came across Cynthia’s renowned blog Tastes Like Home, where Cynthia writes about the food and culture of the Caribbean, weaving...
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Tuiles – Daring Bakers Challenge
I haven’t blogged for quite some time and it feels great to be back in the blogosphere! There is a lot of catching up to do including reading the many delicious posts of...
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Liver Pate (Pâté) Roulade
I know, you are probably saying – Liver? Nah, thank you, I’ll pass it. But wait! Make no mistake – this is not just liver. This is delicious and fancy roulade of liver...
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Butternut Squash or Pumpkin Preserves
The holidays are over but we still have a pumpkin and a butternut squash sitting on our kitchen counter, waiting for their turn to become something delicious (unless they’ve gone bad already). I...
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Curried Roasted Butternut Squash Soup
Thanksgiving is here. I can’t believe it. I am so not ready. I’ve lost the count of calendar days. Literally. Thankfully, for a good reason. My cookbooks arrived in Los Angeles and I...
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Rice Pilaf with Butternut Squash and Beans
“When are you going to change that cookie picture on your blog?,” a good friend of mine recently reproached me. She is right. I have been away for too long. But my mind has always...