Category Archives: One Big Table Recipes

A year ago in July, I started this food blog with the intention of learning the recipes from my family whether they come from the Turkish side or the Southern side. I wanted to make and share what they meant for me above and beyond the taste. As much as the nostalgia associated with the… Read On

This past weekend was a busy one… you know, the kind when you do anything and everything except relaxing. After a whole two days of running around, we got home around 8pm on Sunday night, all exhausted but feeling good about checking things off of our list. (Well, to tell you the truth, it is… Read On

I don’t know what happened to me. It was a nice, quiet day when I decided to make beet soup for the first time. My only intentions were to try this beautiful colored veggie and not get permanent stains on my clothes. Never made any promises to it. Because it is not in my nature… Read On

It is Sunday again! And tomorrow, it will be Monday again!  Argh!! I still have the school day syndrome even at 34! A little uneasiness and tummy ache when Sunday evening rolls in! I am not sure if I will ever grow out of this… ever! I normally don’t get the Monday blues, when it… Read On

I spent the first 24 years of my life by the sea. Winters and summers… springs and falls… all 24 of them! I always went down to the Bosphorus shore when I needed a walk or craved for that salty sea smell. My high school was right on the waterfront, making the strolls during the… Read On

It is finally getting cold around here in South Carolina. There was even snow in the forecast for this Sunday! Of course it did not snow though. Still, the talk of snow makes me get up in the morning and run to the window with excitement! It is a good thing that we never grow… Read On