2012

Hey!! Today is the last day of 2011. I know that new year doesn't mean anything because time does not consist of layers. there is no beginning or end. end is when our life ends.. Anyway, I still want to wish for the best for 2012. I hope it will be best year for me and everybody I love :)

Recipes I like: Banana Bread

Ingredients 
1¾ cups of all purpose flour (I mix 1 cup 12 grain flour to all purpose)
1 teaspoon baking soda (if you use different flour mixture add 1/4 tsp more)
¼ tsp cinnamon
¼ tsp nutmeg
¼ tsp kosher salt
2 large eggs @ room temperature
1 cup sugar of your choice (I use palm sugar)
½ cup vegetable oil (canola oil works perfectly)
coarsely mashed 3 large ripe bananas (approximately 1.5 cups)
1/8 cup cream or plain yogurt
1 tsp vanilla extract
¾ cup walnut, hazelnut and almond mix (or either of those) 
½ cup finely chopped dried cranberry or blueberry    

     Directions

Mix first 5 ingredients in a large bowl. In a separate bowl or with a stand mixer beat eggs and sugar till it gets creamy (~10 min). Add oil slowly and keep mixing. Add flour mixture fist and later nuts and fruits (optional). Pour mixture into a buttered loaf pan (mine is 23.5 X 13.3 X 6.95 cm). Bake for approximately 1 hour @350˚F (~175˚C) in preheated oven. Check it with knife. If it comes clean it means that Banana Bread is ready. Don’t over bake it. It should be moist but cooked. Remove from pan and cool on a rack.

P.S. I have tried the same recipe with carrot. It worked very well. If you want to try, use shredded carrot instead of bananas.
P.S. I can translate the recipe into Turkish as well. Let me know..  

little back in time

Last friday was not a kind of my day. it wasn't friday the 13th either!! Didn't started as a normal friday we usually like. i was still in the bed lingering to my supposedly sweet dream when i got THE bad news. don't let me be too dramatic!! but was pretty bad!! it was another way of seeing that life is sometimes unfair. let me use that to my own advantage.. here we are i am carrying a new baby "savvy anchovy".
while i am away i want you to go and read this little book. this is the first book ever had been read to me when i was growing up. "little black fish" http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/Stories/littleblackfish.html  

bear with me

It has been a long time that I was debating the idea to start a blog spot. Here I am.. There is no real flow to follow here. It will go as it comes to my mind. bear with me..