Covent Garden Market 2

I had a great experience last Thursday in Covent Garden Market and learnt many things about food presentation and sales.
I had a couple of busy days to prepare all the food and then the big day came on Thursday.When we arrived at the market,the UKFBA stall was ready.Ben,the Market Manager greeted us and introduced himself and gave us a lot of information about the stall and market and made us feel comfortable.Throughout the day we saw Ben many times and each time he checked if we were ok and gave us many useful tips.
I prepared Turkish boreks with potato and feta cheese and some Turkish apple pastries with apple and cinnamon.I made bulghur(similar to couscous) salad and english traditional sponge and carrot cakes.



It was fantastic how I sold the traditional Turkish boreks so easily but found it much harder to sell the english cakes.After some feedback from Ben and looking at other stalls, I thought that the customers were looking for nice and interesting food presentation and a consistent food theme.
It was a hard work but rewarding.I really enjoyed it and slept very well that night!
I am going on holiday this week but I will post my borek and apple pastry recipes as soon as I can while I am lying on the beach :)
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Covent Garden Market

Hi Everyone,
I am delighted to announce that I will be having a food stall at Covent Garden Market on 23rd of July with the UKFBA(UK Food Bloggers Association) .I will be selling some Turkish food.

Nice,fresh and different Turkish food like boreks,kisir,gozleme are waiting for you.Hurry!
Hope to see you there.

Turkish/Turkce

Bu persembe Birlesik Krallik yemek sitesi blogger sahipleri birligini temsilen Covent Garden Yiyecek Pazarinda olucam.Elmali Kurabiye,Gozleme,Borek ve kekler olucak standimda.Simdiden cok heyecanliyim.Kisa zamanda size o gunden resimler gostermek umuduyla...
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Mother nature's goodies

We dont notice mother nature's goodies during our daily routine do we?I was out going to hospital to take an x-ray and I was a bit upset about it.

After hospital,Peter and I decided to walk along the canal near the hospital to feel better.We saw canal boats and goodies as we walked.It was lovely to see them.It is the season of blackberries and plums in the UK and we picked nice and sweet blackberries and some green plums.I was obsessed to eat all the blackberries according to Peter.He was right!

I took a photo to show you how irresistible they look .


Turkce/Turkish

Bazen gunluk kosusturmanin icinde dogadaki guzellikleri farkedemezsiniz.Hastaneye film cektimek icin gitmistim biraz moralim bozuktu.Hastaneden sonra bana iyi gelir diye Peter ve ben hastanenin yakinindaki su kanali boyunca yuruyuse karar verdik. Birlesik Krallik'ta bogurtlen ve yesil erik mevsimi simdi.Tatli ve hos kokulu bogurtlenlerden ve eriklerden topladik kanal boyunca.Peter'a gore butun iri ve olgun bogurtleri yemek istiyordum.Hakliydi da. Onlarin size ne kadar dayanilmaz olduklarini gostermek icin fotograflarini cektim. Iste bazi ornekler...
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Home made strawberry jam

Two days ago,I bought some really nice strawberries to make a desert but I didn't have time to make it.I was thinking how I can use these strawberries and then I remembered my mum's home made jam.
In Turkey,April is the time to buy small,sweet and nice smelling strawberries.My mum was usually buying a couple of kilos and giving them to me to wash.I ate half of them as I washed :)
These days I don't have several kilos so I must save every single strawberry, no matter how delicious they look, to make my jam.


Ingredients

500 g strawberry
500 g caster sugar
1/2 lemon

Put all of the strawberries in a bowl and cover with sugar. Leave it overnight. The next day, you will notice all of the sugar has been absorbed by the strawberries and now you can see the sugary water and strawberry combination.
Put it in a saucepan. Heat the pan until the water becomes sticky. Take a spoonful and pour some of the mixture on to a dish. If its thick and doesnt run it means the jam is ready. Add the lemon juice to the mixture and stir before turning the heat off. Leave to cool and pour into a jar.

Spread some on your hot toasted bread. Enjoy!
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