Mel's Turkish Kitchen: Traditional home cooked food by Mel Özşimşek

"Everyone needs a Mel in their life - or at least her recipe book!"Traditional home cooked cuisine by Mel Özşimşek and not a kebab in sight! Join Mel as she delivers traditional tastes of Turkey. Recipes to indulge in for all; meat, pulses, vegetarian, vegan. Mel brings passion and love back to the dinner table with these classic dishes from her home town and childhood in Eastern Turkey. Mel's uncomplicated recipes and her use of store cupboard ingredients and simple fresh produce will have you wanting to cook Turkish food every night.From Mel:Turkish food has become very westernised over the last few years. What comes to your mind when you think Turkish food? Let me guess, kebab? Doner? Shish wraps?But we have many amazing dishes and fresh flavours here in Turkey that are being forgotten about. Dishes that are part of our heritage and our culture. And part of my own background too.I wanted to write this book to bring back the tradition, the vibrance and the variety of Turkish cooking that has been lost through the years. My passion is cooking for my loved ones and bringing heart warming, nutritious comfort foods to the table; the kind that make you feel warm and cosy inside. I want the world to be able to bring this kind of love to the table too.Of course you cannot have a Turkish cook book without a few mezzes thrown in for good measure and of course Turkish Rice, which everyone needs to know as a staple - you will never want to cook "normal" rice again!So throw out your idea that Turkey is all kebab, kebab, kebab and let me introduce you to the true, rich, traditional flavours of Turkey."I've learnt so much about Turkish food from Mel - the best food I've had in Turkey by far!""If you want to reach the same tastes as Mel's recipes, you should make these dishes with love and passion, as Mel does." Read more