Michigan

I'm in Michigan! I've come here every summer of my life (minus one when I was traveling around France), so it's like a second home for me. Family congregates here and we also have a few groups of friends that rent houses near us. My day is generally like this: wake up early, exercise, eat a leisurely breakfast, study for the GRE (yeah, I'm thinking I should go to grad school), go to the beach and read or walk, come up and cook dinner or dessert, eat, walk to the dock and look at the boats and look for otters, come home and read. Life is good here!



I cooked this at home, and it's something you can do too. I found it in my Turkish cookbook. Fry green onions, eggplant, and potatoes, top with homemade tomato sauce, and it's best with garlicy yogurt on it.



I like to look my best when I cook.



Heath cooked us some delicious pizza where he made the crust himself. This pizza is topped with potatoes and oregano.



View from our house over Lake Michigan



Bonfire on the beach, followed by S'mores (if you haven't tried them with Reese's, you HAVE to!)



I decided to cook a Turkish feast. This is lentil, bulgur, and mint soup.



White beans with tomatoes etc, and stuffed eggplant.



A friend came and she made a Persian version of ayran (a Turkish drink with yogurt with some water and salt), it uses selzer water and ice cubes. It's really refreshing!



Milk pudding, but more like milk soup. I've tried to make it 3 or 4 times before but it just never sets! I've watched people make it and used various recipes but I'm doing something wrong!



Apricot compote (?). Sugar, water, and apricots boiled, drained, apricots forced through seive, and peeled apricots and ice cubes added to it.



View at the docks

As you can see, even in America I'm interested in Turkish food! I hope you aren't getting bored of those pictures. There will be more to come! I hope you all are well and take care!