Turkish food!
Dish 1: Spiced chunks of lamb on a bed of potato shavings with yogurt. Quick, simple, cheap, tasty. I easily shoveled all of this down the hatch in no time. Could have eaten more.
Dish 2: Chunks of lamb and walnuts drenched in pomegranate sauce with rice. Jennifer got this one and she was not exactly blown away. It was all good, but the flavor was intense, tart, sweet. Almost too much flavor. And the meat was kind of fatty.
Dish 3: Roasted eggplant, sliced open and filled with ground spiced lamb, and a side of bulgar wheat. It was served chilled, which was unexpected. But very well spiced. It looked to me to be a very heavy meal, but I downed it without problem.
Dish 4: You’re plain old typical skewered grilled meat, just like you’d get anywhere in the Middle East. This was good, for sure, but I wouldn’t say Turkish grilled meat is miles better than its Arab counterpart (as the Turkish students in our Arabic classes continuously insist). To me, Arab and Turkish grilled meat are essentially the same thing. The quality of your meal all depends on the ingredients, not the ethnicity of its cook.
