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[iceman]

Another of my favorites is Herse...Herse was the main food of Cypriot weddings many years ago..Not many people know how to cook it these days..

Please tell us what it is Iceman.

Herse is made of whole grain wheat and fine shredded chicken.....simply delicious..

[Kikapu]

Another dish I have not had for many moons, is the Onion dish with rabbit. It is only onions and rabbit with all the usual flavouring.

What I cook often, and I dare not try to spell it in Turkish, is Lentil Rice (Pilav), which is regular whole lentils and rice cooked together with tomatoes and flavouring with lots of diced Onions browned in butter and poured into the cooked Lentil Rice and mixed together. Let it sit for a while before serving. It's hard to stop eating it, even when full.

[LENA]

The only one that I dont like at all is Zalatina....RichardB did you ever seen how they make it and what parts they put in it...I like the preparation is fun when you are in a village but taste is not so fun for me!!

[RichardB]

Yes Lena. the best bit is from the cheeks (facial that is)

[LENA]

Yes Lena. the best bit is from the cheeks (facial that is)

Somebody told me it was the ear!!!

[halil]

Another of my favorites is Herse...Herse was the main food of Cypriot weddings many years ago..Not many people know how to cook it these days..

Please tell us what it is Iceman.

Herse is made of whole grain wheat and fine shredded chicken.....simply delicious..

Hİ GUYS,
how about BULAMAC and SULUMAHALLEBİ with flower water. may be sulumahalebi will be good idea for tomorrow refreshment...... i must go to Saray önü.

[denizaksulu]

OK, time to get some of you "turned off" from Cypriot food.

Years ago, my father who did most of the cooking at home, in the UK, would on occasions cook couple of sheep heads in water with lemon juice and all. Then we would all sit around the table, and break open the skull and eat the meat off the jaw bones.

It tasted rather delicious actually.

The brain was left for last.

The only thing that would remain, were the bones and the eyes.

Not had the chance to repeat the above experience in the last 25+ years.

Kikapu, how could you leave out the eyes. Dipped in garlic yaourti/yogurt its a delicacy..........................................in Saudi Arabia! But must remove eyelashes first. Its disrespectful to the sheep.

Deniz

[denizaksulu]

Another dish I have not had for many moons, is the Onion dish with rabbit. It is only onions and rabbit with all the usual flavouring.

What I cook often, and I dare not try to spell it in Turkish, is Lentil Rice (Pilav), which is regular whole lentils and rice cooked together with tomatoes and flavouring with lots of diced Onions browned in butter and poured into the cooked Lentil Rice and mixed together. Let it sit for a while before serving. It's hard to stop eating it, even when full.

I think you are talking of Mucendra/mujendra? It does not even sound Turkish , but was often cooked in our homes.
Deniz

[halil]

how about lanangı ? we had it last week.
kaymakyağlı yumurta (egg with kaymak)
Kaymak yağlı gatmer.
samsi

Kikapu was telling about Tavsan bastı...... (rabbit with onions )
i hope oneday we can come together and we can cook and eat together with our families. if wifes does not knoe how to cook we can cook .Come on cypriots i know u are all home sick.......

we can get bungalows to make it .it is simple as this.
good appetie.

tomorrow i will find more also some explanations.

this weekend i am getting visitors from Malta. İ will cook so many cypriot food for them. i get a idea from this topic.everwhere they can get kebab and fish but no cyprioy food. why the hell all the hotels are stick with french or other stuff.

[zan]

Another dish I have not had for many moons, is the Onion dish with rabbit. It is only onions and rabbit with all the usual flavouring.

What I cook often, and I dare not try to spell it in Turkish, is Lentil Rice (Pilav), which is regular whole lentils and rice cooked together with tomatoes and flavouring with lots of diced Onions browned in butter and poured into the cooked Lentil Rice and mixed together. Let it sit for a while before serving. It's hard to stop eating it, even when full.

I think you are talking of Mucendra/mujendra? It does not even sound Turkish , but was often cooked in our homes.
Deniz

A nice dolop of suzme yogurt and a fresh onion MMMmmmmmmmmm!