Recipes

Women from the 'Villages of Şile' Group

Facilitated by Jodie and Yeşim and in collaboration with Fatma Deniz and her team at Ovacık Deneyim Atolyesi.

These are some of the delicious foods that were prepared especially and eaten together.

These recipes are shared in the way that the women shared with us, some are more explanatory than others. Please remember that many recipes were passed down (often from mother to daughter) and no written records exist between them. The women instinctively know the cooking times, how to make pastry or when to add which ingredients and it is so natural to them that they expect us all to know too!

The way of showing and making together is a beautiful way, those of us from a written word culture are sometimes inclined to see a lack of written records as inferior but we invite ourselves to see that the oral and participatory culture is a vast richness in human experience and times spent sharing the pleasure of cooking together is both precious and informative. It is also the gift of our cultural heritage through participation.

If you find a recipe that you are curious about is lacking in essential information, please contact us and we will do our best to provide clarity.

Neriman

Şile Group

Ovacık Village Meetings

She lives in Yeniköy and runs a small farm and a restaurant business.

Bringing Bosnian flavours to our table

"I don't know when I learned it. My mother used to roll it out sitting on the floor,

we would sit down across from her, we'd struggle, we liked it, we would never get bored ..."

(About making dough) - Neriman

Remziye Abla

Şile Group

Ovacık Village Meetings

Ethnic Manav Turkish Recipes

Saniye Abla

Şile Group

Ovacık Village Meetings

Ethnic Manav Turkish flavours brought to our kitchens

Ulviye

Şile Group

Ovacık Village Meetings

She lives in Çayırbaşı Village

Bringing Thessaloniki and Black Sea

flavors to our kitchens

Zeliha

Şile Group

Ovacık Village Meetings

She lives in Yeniköy and is Neriman's sister in law,

together they bring Bosnian

flavours to our kitchen