We drive to the farmers’ market to shop for the ingredients of your lunch, which will be comprised of four cold starters, one warm entrée and a main course followed by desert. At the market you will encounter local food purveyors who offer all manner of self-harvested olives, wild seasonal greens, vegetables, as well as home-made noodles, jams, pickles, breads and a delicious array of cheeses. From the market we will drive to our place to cook, here we will guide you through the delicious secrets of regional Aegean cookery with its accent on olive oil and fresh herbs, a very special and particularly healthy branch of Turkish cuisine. You will be invited to watch the cooking sessions while sipping a glass of wine, or join-in for a hands-on experience if you’d rather. Either way, we guarantee you we will be entertained and with the help of the written recipes we will offer you, be able to recreate the feast back at home.
We will serve you a lunch of all the wonderful dishes we have cooked together, at tables where we will share stories of Turkish Cuisine and cooking traditions in our families while tasting our local wines.
Sample Menu
• 5 Meze's - We will be cooking five different mezze depending on the season and what the farmers market offers us cooked with self harvested olive oil.
• A hot starter made with phyllo - A hot starter will be made with phyllo either fried or baked.
• A main course will be cooked - A main course will be cooked as a part of the class and we will decide what to cook with our guests.
• Desert - A dessert will be served at the end of the meal but will not be cooked at the class.