Usually I fancy a salad, but know how much work can go into a truly unique and delicious one. All that standing around and chopping things just so, sometimes I’m not in the mood for it. This time I cheated and bought the dressing too, so what!

When I knew a certain someone was coming for dinner and bringing with her a love of beets and then saw these beautiful golden specimens at the market, I knew what had to be done. A big poofy yellow beet soufflé complete with a bow! Just kidding. This salad is so simple to make, some slicing, a little lettuce tearing, but no fancy chopping required. Next please…

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{This is made from left over pancakes, the dried figs you see below, and a barely sweet eggy custard all baked until puffed to perfection.}

Isn’t Delightfully Turkish an oxymoron? I don’t know how to say this delicately but that’s one smashing marketing campaign they’ve got there. Maybe the casting call was to ‘Please show up if your face looks like an old dried fig, conservative head scarves and starched collars welcome, no burkas allowed’. Then, dusty queues wrapped the land until booyah, baby you’re a star!

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