Kurban Bayram-The first day

The coordinator of the day.. In charge of tidying up the breakfast table..and doing everything else..we the people with meat smell on our hands could not do :0)

The big sister. In charge of making sure the Great cook of the day (Kerim) did not put too much fat in the special dish. He did of course hehehehe

My beloved hayatım...cute isnt he? (if u look from neck up hehehe)

The Great Cook of the DAy (kerim) n mıstık doing all the hard work..


Our beloved KAVURMA in the cooking process ..it is a special dish we eat for kurban bayram
(this one is meat)


Kavurma (liver) in another pan..
Özlem ready to tuck in.. Kavurma (meat..liver..bla bla bla) eaten with rice.

Half of the kurban in the family were given to organizations. The rest..7 sheep were bought n slaughtered at the slaughtered house....it is more expensive than giving to organizations..coz for example.. one organization charged around 225YTL for a kurban.. today for example, the zaim men paid around 330YTL for one sheep and 20 YTL for the fee of the guy who did the slaughtering.. anyway.. like the people would say in turkish..*Allah kabul etsin* (may Allah accept ur deeds)...The meat were distributed to the kurban owners by our Zaim men... so that the meat could be distributed to the needy..and for certain parts of the meat to be used by the kurban owners.... and by 11.30am... 2 of the sheeps' meat reached baba's apartment..

Eversince Anne died... it was usually mıstık, kerim n meşe who did the meat cutting of the kurban meat. I didnt used to help coz at that time my kids were still quite small. This year however, we did help... selim, halil n i went to baba to help out...

It was a good decision coz this year, we had extra meat to cut....The kitchen was in havoc as the 4 siblings, one bride and mıstık chatted away...We finished cutting the meat by almost 2pm...and the kavurma was cooking by then.. we were scheduled to eat the beloved kavurma by 3.3.0pm or by 4pm..but only at 5pm hmm... or was it5.30pm?.....everyone..hungry as one could imagine (it was supposed to be lunch!!)..were able to tuck in!! Yummy!! Eline sağlık everyone..!! Of course, before the eating, we all did form a line according to age and kissed each other and said*iyi bayramlar* to each other...we skipped the chocolate offering coz everyone was famished... we snapped the family photo n then..hum hum hum!!..n not forgetting.. eline sağlık to meşe, özlem and funda for the delicious cold dishes... :0)

We were there at baba till 11.30pm.. tomorrow and the third day of bayram..we will be there as well..to serve the guests at baba's house..as we always do every bayram...i am tired n sleepy now.. i will leave u with the photos i snapped today

Thank You for hopping by...Hope to see u again the next time..