Allah Yalla, my stomach hurts of all GOOD food!!!

Me, Gökhan and 2 of his cousins Nazli and Mex, we went to forum to look up some computers for Nazli and afterwards we went to the new Büyük Platina a house full of stuff a woman can wish for and on forth floor it was a restaurant there Gökhans friend is working. That guy was so nice to me, when I was choosing between two pasta courses he said that if I should not like the bolognes he was gonna send in another sauce, a mexican sauce. And so he did and the bolognes was wonderfull and also that mexican sauce!! Oh my that meal was one of my best I have had here in Mersin even if it wasent Turkish food. I am so sad I dident take any photos on it becouse Oh Allah sükür it looked delicious and tasted fabulous! As a suprise he after dinner offered us dessert on him and we got a fantastic chokolate cake! I wish we can have a similar one as wedding cake, it was that fantastic!

And on our way home we passed by our thursday-bazaar and found really good deals on sour green apple (Gökhan loves them), pear (I love) and the paprika. so nice so nice! But when we came home anneanne says they already bought paprika for me just becouse I love it.   

Here comes some photos from today...

It have been a total cleaning of the house today! Our bedroom smells so good and all things are back in their places. It was me and Aunt that cleaned, I was vaccuum cleaning and she was scrubing the floor. I took care of carpets and the bathroom, just the bathroom took me and hour to clean...I dont think it have been this clean in years! All walls, window, bathtub, toalett and floor are shining, anneanne even came to tell me to stop becouse it was going to clean! Aunt took care of the little hole-in-the-ground-toalett and she also cleaned the balconies.

The summer can now come!! But it will probably take one more months...

Now me and my husband will cuddle down under blanket, watch a good movie and eat kerebiç (special dessert that just exist in Mersin) that he was so kind to buy on his way home from carşi.

For the first time in a week I am not freezing, I am actually sweating!

But still cant go anywhere so Gökhan went to Forum with some of his friends, no idea for me to go with them anyway...they just talk business.

And now when he is gone I could finally try to make potato and broccoli soup, he says he hate it becouse he got it in army but all army food is really bad. 

I have never done this soup before but I am missing potatos so bad and its good vitamines in broccoli so it should be great for every sick one at here.

This soup turned out really good! Even if I changed the recipe and some ingredients we dident have at home. This is the recipe I came up with...

Potato and Broccoli Soup

4 medium potatoes
250 g broccoli, frozen is fine
1 onion

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salt, black pepper, karabeber, thyme

Peel the potatoes and onions and cut into pieces, can be quite large. Place in a saucepan, along with the broccoli. Cover with water. Add salt, pepper and herbs. Cook until potatoes are soft. Drain but save it. Mix the vegetables into a fairly smooth paste. Dilution of the cooking water to desired consistency. Season to taste with seasoning.

If you have at home 1 vegetable stock cube you can use that so you dont need to spice the soup so hard and to get a more luxery feeling on it pure in little cream. To get some extra acid in soup I put some lemon juice just before eating.

Afiyet Olsun!!  Bon Appetit!!  Smaklig måltid!!

Last saturday Gökhan and I was at dinner at our friend Ali. He was making drilled fish in oven and to it they served sallad. They always do here in Turkey, nothing eals then sallad, maybe çorba as starter.

For dinner Ali drank raki and he was pushing us to drink it but we are more religious then him. But I have never tried Raki before so he made me a glas anyway, and I can say I like it but I need much more water then he put. So every sip I took I drank some extra water before. But I learned something about it, if you dont want that strong taste afterwards you can eather drink some şalgam (a drink made out of red carrot) or eat a spone with yoghurt. Non of them worked for me but at least I have now tried Raki, even if it haram.

After dinner I gave him a Polkagris with tast of Viol. Every time I have been giong here I have given him Daim becouse he loves it but this time I tried something new. And it became a big hit that too!

Alis mum is so kind and everytime we are there at dinner she is spoiling us so much. First dinner, tea and dessert, then we get frutes and when we are all full we often sit down and watch some tv and then she come with turkish coffe. You can not move anywhere when you are done.

We tried that evening to look into our future in coffe, Gökhan had sign of Allah, Aii had fire and I had a wolf. And both Gökhan and me had a thick round spot in middle of the cup, they said it meant that someone was looking over us.

So we will see what will happen...... 

Well then this day is soon over...time goes so fast, already I have been here 2 weeks!

And all we have done today is resting, I did laundry and we watched movies. We also got visit from anneannes sister and her husband after lunch so I made cay, heated up yesterdays lahmacun and anneanne had made ricepudding. But they had allready eaten so they just drank some cay.

In the afternoon Gökhan, Esma and I went to our weekly bazaar, we bought red and green apples - 3 kg for 18 kr, pear - 1 kg 12 kr, cauliflower for 7 kr and potatos - 3,5 kg for 12 kr. So nice prices compared with Sweden!

Rest of the evening Esma have been running in and out from our room...and now its fruit time! MmmMmm!!

Oh Ohhh!! Nothing is better then to eat an orange after an long walk, so sweet, juicy and direct from garden.

Today it is raining alittle, but still not cold as it can be in Sweden. And I got all seaside for my self no one eals was there walking, just dogs playing around or finding a shelter.

I will here give you a round up from yesterday. First of all I woke up early and thats not a good thing to do a sunday in this family becouse sundays they eat bunch all together. So it was just to start up the computer and watch some series, great for me becouse I have been missing so many this last weeks.

Around noon our friend calls and in 1 hour Gökhan tells me are going to a picnic up in the mountains. So it was just to get ready, get warm clothes and blankets, stuff to make a sallad, cay stuff, frutes and nuts. Ali was gonna bring fish and wood.

When he came we were heading up on the mountains and Ali let me to drive alittle but it was sceary becouse the road is bad and small, and the fact that the car dont have any seat belts and we had a cliff on over 100 meter down made me shaky.

On half way the road ir closted and we have to turn back and try to find another way up. We came to a part that non of the guys had been. But we found a really nice place for picnic. Gökhan and Ali fixed fire in grill and I made sallad. 

After lunch I walked in the mountains and looked around on the fantastic view. I got a big time ass workout to walk up again! Under the time I was walking the guys had started to make cay and a fire becouse now the sun was going down and the cold came.

We sat there and looked on the fire, drank cay, ate nutes and later frutes. So wonderful it was!

The best thing on the day was to hear the sound from camii and the eco that become in mountains!

Just after breakfast today we went to see Gokhans friend that works as a pastory chef. When we got there he was making cakes and with such a easy hand he made them. And offcorse we were able to try some of them, first we got a Ekler its like a Petit-Chou. Then we got some ends from a cake which was banana inside and chokolate mousse and some pistage on top, mmm mm so good!

Rest of the day we have been fixing in our room to make it more like our. So now I can finally feel like I am home.

In the afternoon our relatives come to visit Gokhan and see how his sickness is going..sadly its not going that well.

As a bandage we got a present from them, two pots and some juice with cok vitamines. Very kind of them to give us that!