Monday, June 15, 2009

Sandwiches+Bread at midnight

For tomorrow I have promised my colleagues to make some bread. After Polonezkoy, when we got home, I still had time to work in the kitchen. So I rolled my sleeves for sandwiches and bread. The recipe I used is from one my favourite websites, http://www.40firinekmek.com/ .
It is midnight but I could not go to bed without showing them here..They look so cute! ( Cute bread?!)

Sandwiches in row:

Here comes the potato bread


Sunday, June 14, 2009

Adampol-A Polish Village in Istanbul


Polonezkoy, formerly known as Adampol, is a Polish village located in Istanbul, Beykoz. Although I have been in Istanbul almost for 8 years, I have never had a chance to visit this pretty, heavenly village before. This Sunday morning, we left home for a breakfast in Polonezkoy... If only I had seen it earlier! As Czech author Karel Droz describes it, the village seems to be "a smile of a corner from heaven". The breakfast was yummy, and it was not only the taste, the centre of the village of--where we had the breakfast--was full of smells of roses and magnolias. Our joyful moments were an escape from the hurry and chaotic atmosphere of Istanbul.. Here are some sweet and lovely photos of Polish village.





The forest
The breakfast of course...




Here is the place where we had our breakfast. Centre of the village.

Saturday, June 06, 2009

home made...smells great


Here is my homemade, hand kneaded bread. I could not predict that the cuts on it would be so deep.  

Friday, June 05, 2009

One Small Step


For some time, I have been thinking a lot over the ecological footprint of my existence on the world. I have never attempted (actually dared to attempt) to calculate it. How much carbon am I producing during my life? Today, tomorrow? Everything we do has some impact on our environment.
The attitude I exhibited until now was expecting officials to act; waiting the government recycle everything, sort the trash, the sorted trash, set up some solar powered stations, power mills...Wrong. It is late. I soon realized that, without small steps, human can wait eternally. 
One small step is important I think. And can do something. Those small steps will make thousands of small steps. 
Probably after reading too many blogs about ecology and organic lifestyles, I am now aware that, I am not alone. There are millions of small steps away and close and governments will not change until people individually realise the cruciality of the matter. 

But what are those practical steps for a family of two? Of course, sorting the trash, taking the bottles to the nearest bottle bin, not using the car, preferring public transportation, limiting the water usage, living organic, gardening in your house, in the balcony.. and countless more. Taking your own non-plastic bag to the market is one important act. Nevertheless, I cannot help being desperate about the matter.