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Ozlem’s Turkish Table on YouTube and Gourmand Best of the World Award!

Merhaba Dear All,

Gourmand Best in the World winners just announced! We are delighted to let you know that Ozlem’s Turkish Table cookery book got the Gourmand Best in the World award for Food Heritage category – Turkey! There were participants over 100 countries for the award and Ozlem’s Turkish Table got this award for Turkey, along with other wonderful books from Japan, Sweden and Germany in Food Heritage category – many congratulations to all! My sincere thanks goes to GB Publishing  team,  Pinar Foods UK and everyone involved making this special book to celebrate Southern Turkish culinary heritage. And to all of you dear readers for your kindness and continued support, cok tesekkur ederim, many thanks.

This has been such uplifting news and warmed our hearts, at this challenging times. Please remember there are plenty wholesome, easy, delicious recipes at my blog here as well as at my cookery book, Ozlem’s Turkish Table  to inspire you; please stay well, stay home and look after one another. Signed hardback copies of Ozlem’s Turkish Table are NOW 30 % OFF  at this link and delivered worldwide including the US. You can also see ebook and other options at this link too. We hope this helps enjoying delicious, healthy Turkish recipes during lockdown, it can also make a lovely gift to a foodie and for Mother’s Day too.

Ozlem’s Turkish Table on YouTube! 

In the hope to inspire you with healthy, wholesome cooking with easy Turkish recipes, I have started my Ozlem’s Turkish Table You Tube channel   My 13 year old daughter, home schooling, has been helping with the videos at her spare time. There are plenty of tips for ease of cooking with ingredients we can get hold of, substitution and easy to follow steps at my videos, I do hope it helps and inspires at this challenging times and bring you a bit of warmth, joy and comfort. Please Subscribe here for my you tube videos, if you like to join us.

Here is the links of of my you tube videos I have prepared so far:

Welcome and Hoş Geldiniz! My first video here I am talking and spices, pulses and wholesome Turkish meal ideas.

Baked cauliflower with peppers, onion, cheese, Firinda Karnabahar Mucveri you tube video here

Baked cauliflower with red onions, feta and dill, from ozlem’s Turkish Table; image by Sian Irvine Photography

At this you tube video, I am preparing this healthy, easy vegetarian dish that you can prep ahead of time, featuring cauliflower – great for weekday meals too – a lot of tips for substitution and pairing in the video at this link, I hope you enjoy it, Afiyet Olsun.

Aubergines, lentils, peppers cooked in olive oil – Mercimekli Mualla you tube video here

Aubergines, lentils and peppers cooked in olive oil, Mercimekli Mualla, from my  cookery book, Ozlem’s Turkish Table, Recipes from My Homeland

This wholesome, delicious dish is from my hometown Antakya Turkey. It is vegan , gluten free and so easy to make; lots of ideas for substitution (e.g. making with courgette instead of aubergines) and ahead of time cooking in my video at this link. I hope you enjoy it, Afiyet olsun, Ozlem

Ozlem’s Turkish Table book signing at Yakamoz Hotel in 2019

I have longed to come back home in April but it was not meant to be. The current Covid-19 crisis dictates us all stay at home; so we are all at home, doing our best, supporting one another in the best way we can. This means, I can no longer do my cookery classes and events in Fethiye and Kalkan – Turkey, as we planned previously for early May. However, we will be rescheduling events and classes in Fethiye and Kalkan for later in the year, most likely in October time. As soon as it is safe to do so, we will get organised and get going and let you know. I can not wait to come back home, and I am sure so many of you feel the same way. Until then, we must stay home and keep home cooking, going. We may not be able to visit our home land, see our loved ones physically at the moment, but we can connect with that special land, our loved ones, our memories with the food we make; Turkish cuisine has that power for us. And with a huge bonus of being healthy too.

So please stay safe, stay home, enjoy cooking. I am always here if you have any questions and would love to help.

Stay well, Afiyet Olsun, 

Ozlem 

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