QZealanders helping Ginny and John on their Mediterranean sailing adventure.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Turkish toast with poached egg (yummy)
The weekend is always better when you start with a delicious and healthy breakfast - just like this one!
Ingredients (serves 4)
3 tomatoes, diced
1 small red onion, diced
1/3 cup coriander leaves, roughly chopped
1 teaspoon red wine vinegar
1 teaspoon white vinegar
4 free-range eggs
1 loaf Turkish bread, cut into 4 pieces, split, toasted
1 teaspoon sumac (see note)
Method
Combine tomatoes, onion, coriander and red wine vinegar in a bowl. Season with salt and pepper. Cover and set aside for 30 minutes to allow flavours to develop, if time permits.
Bring a large saucepan of water to the boil over high heat. Add white vinegar and a pinch of salt. Reduce heat to low and gently simmer. Crack 1 egg onto a saucer (to check egg yolk is intact). Using a large spoon, stir simmering water to create a whirlpool. Tip egg into centre of whirlpool. Repeat with another egg. Poach eggs for 3 to 4 minutes or until just set. Use a slotted spoon to transfer eggs to a plate. Cover to keep warm. Repeat with remaining eggs.
Place bread bases on plates. Top with tomato mixture and eggs. Sprinkle with sumac. Cover with bread tops. Serve.
Notes & tips
Sumac is a Middle Eastern spice available from the spice section of your supermarket. You could replace with grated lemon rind
Just a brief note to say we are in Fethiye but sailing over the gulf to another bay this afternoon when the wind gets up. That might be the pattern for the next few days. Wind in the afternoon, so go for a sail then come back to a quiet bay.
Love Ginny and John
how hard do you think it would be to make turkish delight
Would you do this blog again?
Would you go to Kalkan???
Some of the Latest Blog Entry
If you're not sure what to research, how about trying some of these (coloured green)?
"Today was spent walking in the heat of the day to Kale Koywhere there is a beautiful castle on the hill. We stopped at a cafe in Kale Koy for orange juice andgozleme (Turkish pancake, cooked on a gas fired rounded plate, spread with feta and oregano, folded, cut and eaten). We had been here 2 years ago and the owner, Mustafa, looked after us nicely with tomato and watermelon as well. His cafe overlooked the bay, quite high up, and was wonderfully cool. It's a family affair, with the wife and father cooking, and the daughter running errands.
"In the afternoon we motored the boat to near the end of the deep bay which Üçağız is in, There is an ice cold spring there and we were curious about it. It has been dammed by the locals and is quite a deep narrow pool of freezing water, too cold for us to go into, but it cools the sea water around it very nicely."
Would you go to Turkey
Would you eat Turkish delight?
Would you learn the Turkish language?
Helping TC's Sister
TC's sister Ginny, along with her husband John, are sailing a yacht off the coast of Turkey (in the Mediterranean). Here is a txt from Ginny:
All's gr8.now anchored near Kalkan hopin 4 wind 2 go Kas 2day.can't get internet so don't no wthr.Can u help?Lovin th sailin.way 2 go 4 sure.how were AB's
We will get to know Ginny and John, and then help them on their big sailing adventure.
New Txt
We jst E of Kekova.Plan 2 visit family from last tym 2moro.what weather will we get in th next week.wee head Bak2 Fethiye
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