...till we open www.befoodie.com

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Away but working!

I know I know... I've been so away and seem lazy but I'm really working underneath all! Trust me!

I'm developing my cooking skills besides baking. I guess I'm getting used to daily cooking as well. Even creating simple comfort dishes! I don't have any proof (such as a photo!) of it but the last dish I cooked was named as "Root Comfort" by me! Haha


I'm also working on another side too. Well I'd make a surprise to all if I were patient enough however that's not me!

Finally I found a chance to persuade my husband to build a personal blog website to me! As he's been teaching me HTLM as a start, I guess he'll also keep teaching me (maybe a bit of PHP too)as I help him through the project.

Nothing will be confusing. The new blog url gonna be www.befoodie.com!

Simple, isn't it?

So here you have a sneak view of my new blog! Haha just the "under construction" sign. However I made it myself! Of course not the sketch image, but the page itself. I get started loving HTML!

So please stay tuned... I'll be a hard-er worker cook/blogger when the page is finished. Promise!

Till that time you all take good care!!!

And... Merry Christmas!!!




ps. Drawing is from gettyimages.com ~ Eastnine Inc.

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Back!

Hi there! We are back from Cappadocia! It was a wonderful trip and we enjoyed every single minute of it. Wish we had much time to see everything around in Cappadocia. To be honest I hadn't had an idea about how wide the area was before we went there.

I do tell you my friends if you ever have a chance to come to Turkey never leave country without visiting Cappadocia.

I'm now trying to finish the notes of our honeymoon holiday on my Turkish travel blog, and soon be adding two more trips of Foca and Safranbolu tomorrow. Then I gonna add the Cappadocia trip to the blog. You can follow it on here. I'm sorry again that it's just in Turkish now. So you can only see the pictures. However I may soon be blogging in English about the trips as well...

Stay tuned...


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Off to Cappadocia

Hi folks!

I know I've been so away from my blog(s). Still having difficulties to arrange my time at home. It's not as easy as it seems to be married lol I advice everyone to think twice, and then two more times! lol

Tonight we are off and gonna settle on road to Cappadocia. A very beautiful and miraculous area in central region of Turkey. Cappadocia means Land of Beautiful Horses in ancient Persian language. Most of you may have heard about Cappadocia before but for those whom not familiar with it you can read here and here.


I've been blogging about our travels on Banu ve Feridun Gezide blog of which langugage is Turkish. I guess it's becoming a necessity to blog about travels in English, too. However it will probably take some time for me to translate them all as I even couldn't finish the honeymoon notes in Turkish either! So you can visit and see photos there at least till I start a guide/vacation blog in English.

I'll be back with loads of photos and memories from Cappadocia on Friday morning. You all take care of yourself till we see again, and a merry Thanks giving season to all!


photo ~ Henry Clarke, 1966 Cappadocia, model: Leslie Fay, corbis.com

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So Cocoa!

Sorry for the low quality of the picture.

I needed to take this photo in late afternoon immediatelly before these two innocent slices are gone!

As I said I was supposed to share the recipe of the "melt-in-the-mouth vanilla cookies" last day. However I had to go and stay at mom's to help her as she had been having her flat redecorated. And when I was back home there were no vanilla cookies left in the box!

Miranda, and Steve... Thank you again my dears! My cookies and cakes used to survive for at two days in the past at least. Now nothing stays more than half a day in our home after those vanillas. Baked and eaten!


I'm not complaining, of course not. Just so worried about our diet! LOL

Now it's time to share this sooooo cocoa cake recipe! I found it on a Turkish food blog by chance. I tried it ten days ago first. It was good. But with a few changes I made on the recipe and with the wonderful vanilla paste it's now a luscious cake for sure!

Cocoa Cake

Ingredients

150 gr butter, melted
3 eggs
3/4 cup white sugar
~ 1/2 cup cocoa powder
3/4 cup plain flour
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp pure vanilla paste

Method

1. Preheat oven to 170C / 350F. Line a -9'x4'/24cm x 11cm- loaf tin with parchment paper.
2. Mix melted butter, sugar and vanilla paste in a medium bowl with electric mixer. Add eggs one at a time, keep mixing.
3. Sift flour, cocoa powder, salt and baking powder together. Add the flour mixture to batter, and stir just until it combines with a wooden spoon or spatula.
4. Bake the cake till it sets/gets baked for about 50 min.s or so. Remove from the tin, and cool on rack.

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