*On the go* r the words

Rest assured that while i am trying to tranfer n modify the pictures from my camera into the pc.. baddin decided to crash in n sit on my lap…

Be assured too that with baddin is on my lap…he is non stop asking me the numbers on the calculator he is holding,… my one hand dealing with the keyboard…as i am also trying to eat my meal.. (shrimp n squid with sauce n spaghetti n bla bla bla..at 8.30am??? i must be nuts! hahah)

When Halil told me to expect around 6 students for dinner .. my past experience of feeding university students told me to let it be heavy on the main menu.. n light on the cold dishes…Well..that was what i did… we fed them last night…simple may be easier said than done though… the whole day yesterday i was busy dealing with tidying up the place…n last minute cooking.. on Sunday, i was on my feet cooking the cold dishes the whole day…

Simple cold dishes:

börulce salatası (biji kacang panjang salad), green salad, fried carrot with yogurt n garlic topping, friend eggplant with tomato sauce n garlic, rus salatası, turşu

Main dish:speghetti with mushroom n tomato sauce, fresh steamed peas with butter n chicken topped with mushroom sauce, mash potato n cheese

I forgot to snap the photo of the apple pie as the dessert :0)

Then, on Saturday night, we invited everyone in the family to celebrate baddin’s belated birthday… n on top of that, that same day… on Saturday at 1.30pm, there was the PTA (parents,teacher meeting)… at hatice’s school which i attended while Halil looked after the kids….(Hatice got excellent for all sections in her report card..aferin kızıma)…n the journey home by the mini bus..was a long one…becoz it was Saturday.. the traffic was heavy.. i only reached home by 5pm after one hour journey…Alhamdulillah enough for me to do the last minute home cleaning…..

Due to the circumstances of Saturday, i had no choice but to prepare the salty things for Saturday night on Friday ( a day earlier)… that took me the whole day too as i discovered my whole apt was a mess as well…

N now i need to go somewhere after this as well…hmmm… interesting is the word i’d say these past few days have been :0) .. tiring but i think they r satsfying…

Satisfying coz everybody got together on Saturday night… the kids got to play with their cousins..This was the first time everybody got together at our place ever since Hatice n baddin have separate rooms… There r more rooms for each kids to play… Hatice, Zeynep n keremcan played on hatice’s bed… the younger ones played everywhere else..underneath hatice’s bed… inside baddin’s room, along the corridor… n at one point..underneath the eating table in the living room! Hehehe..

Satisfying coz on Monday night… we fed some university students…we do that once in a while..whenever requested… they r usually those students who study here in İstanbul n their parents live in another city… perhaps very far from here… i suppose the aim is to let these students eat home made food…instead of junks n ready made food….I cooked 2 apple pies for dessert …they finished one… so Halil packed that extra one pie for the students tobring it to where ever they r staying…


It is 9.30am! i better get ready! Will try to blog hop n reply emails tonite…(remembering the tons of clothes to be ironed waiting for me)....

Zaimlar: i will try to add in the rest of the pictures at the photo blog a bit later..

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