Antalya Day 2

Just a few more pictures from today - I head back to Istanbul tomorrow and I hope everything goes okay. Istanbul was all over the news today because of the continuing snow. My flight is at 8:30 so hopefully things won't be too backed up. We'll see! While I've been here, Kubra (Sinan's sister) and I have been making Valentine's like crazy. Here's the mess we made:





Breakfast this morning. We had leftover sarma and fried potatoes. Fried potatoes are a really popular thing for breakfast here which is fine by me!



Dinner. Sinan's father grilled hunks of meat on the balcony and his mom made stuffed eggplant. I watched her closely to learn how to make it better. I'll give a quick summary with the next photo.



This is the stuffed eggplant - cook onions and lots of garlic. Add some peeled and chopped tomatoes and some already cooked ground beef. Then I think add spices like cumin, dried mint, salt, pepper, red pepper, and then some parsley and tomato paste. Let this cook together for a while and then add to cut open eggplants that have been peeled in alternate strips and fried in oil. Then rinse out the meat mixture pan with boiling water and add this meaty water to the pan with the eggplants so they are almost submerged, cover, and boil them for a while.



This is Kubra's famous salad. Everything is cut so small and with oil, pomegranate sauce and salt it tastes perfect.



This cake was so easy and so delicious but so heavy! Especially when I ate it after I ate a bowl of rice pudding. It's probably good I'm going back to Istanbul tomorrow, otherwise I'd have to buy two seats on the plane...