
Menemen
This is a very common Turkish breakfast dish which is simply scrambled eggs with fried peppers and tomatoes. This dish always reminds me of a holiday where I went to stay with my cousins at my teens. After a long and fun drive in my uncles car reaching home and getting to peel tens of tomatoes and chopping twice as many chillies. Of course then none of us knew how easy it would be to peel tomatoes if you left the tomatoes in boiling water after marking a cross the bottom with

Nigel Slater's Rye bread and sardines on toast
We have gone on an intermident fast diet recently and our lunch will be sardines on toast. I baked this bread this morning from Nigel Slater's rye bread recipe, but without the walnuts and parmesan cheese.I was in a rush last night so did not have a change to add anything to it but next time will add sunflower seeds and maybe walnut to it. If we continue with this diet it looks like I will be baking more of rye breads. Next time I will try to make a sourdogh version of this.H