Tag Archives: food
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Dinnertime (II)
10Saturday 16 April, 2016 by Uncle Spike
My second Weekly Photo Challenge memory trigger of ‘Dinnertime’ is of a great little Mexican place we found in a small …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: One Love (II)
12Tuesday 15 March, 2016 by Uncle Spike
My second Weekly Photo Challenge entry is all about my one love, food 🙂 We grow a fair amount of our …
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Preparing that slow goat stew
15Saturday 23 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
I was asked by Janey In Mersin (an Aussie expat in southern Turkey) about my method of creating that slow-cooked …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Very very slow cooked goat
8Wednesday 20 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Glorious Calories
9Wednesday 16 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Simit
11Thursday 10 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Talking of bread the other day, well the other culprit known to challenge the elasticity of my old leather belt …
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Turkish breakfasts
26Tuesday 01 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Scoffing is a national pastime here, which is probably why Turkey ranks I think third in the world based on …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Treat (I)
16Friday 30 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a personal favourite, a fresh salad served with hot spicy …
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But mom said “No Smut In This House!”
18Wednesday 26 August, 2015 by Uncle Spike
When I was a lad, my mom always told me this… but I guess that’s a different story altogether (and …
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Mixed Grill
8Tuesday 23 June, 2015 by Uncle Spike
One night when Uncle Baldrick was here, we actually managed to venture out for a couple of non-working hours. It …
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Snack Lunch, Cyclades Style
17Tuesday 10 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
I could so eat this right now – my absolute favourite snack. How about you? .
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Juice Time
5Sunday 04 January, 2015 by Uncle Spike
With fruit hanging off every tree in sight, we are rarely short of fruit juice, that’s for sure. Never do …
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Sweetcorn – oops
11Sunday 31 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
It wasn’t meant to be… As suspected from my earlier posts, the sweetcorn crop succumbed to the usual ailments this …
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From Burgers To Homegrown
23Saturday 08 March, 2014 by Uncle Spike
HEALTH HERO – that’s a funny term isn’t it? Trawling around the net this week, I came across a site …
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Curry In Ankara – Finally!
12Wednesday 19 February, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Having travelled around India a fair bit, and having lived and worked in the north of England for 10 years, …
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