Fruit and veggies

[Dalyansteve]

One of the best reasons for coming early season is for the new fruit and veg and just to give you an idea here are some prices, don't forget everything is seasonal. Lovely asparagus 5 lira for about 700grams. Strawberies, as good as the best English ones 1.5 lira a kilo and today for the first time this year new potatoes at 1.5 lira a kilo, today is Saturday the 2nd of May. Lira is about 2.4 to the ?1.
A little known fact, one of the best known English jam makers has been buying it's fruit from Turkey for the past 40 years that I know of. Also when you buy bread and look at the label, it says "flour improver" this also comes from Turkey. The flour is very high quality with high protein content and a low Hagburg reading, this is the thing that makes flour stodgy and sticky when baked. English flour is high Hagburg and low protein so you have to add improver.

[Tubby2]

Steve you are just so damn knowledgeable and I love reading your posts, while I sit at home longing to be in Dalyan. My mouth was watering. I love the green peppers, cubanelle we used to call them, but just can't seem to find them over here. Wonder if we would be allowed to bring some back with us on our next visit or is this a no no.

[Dalyansteve]

It is supposed to be a no no, but many people take things like that home. Guess how many people take honey, having been given some by neighbours or hotel owners and that is one of the biggest no no's. I don't get why especially when you go to an english supermarket and find all sorts fruit and veg from Turkey, it must be something to do with control.

[Dalyansteve]

Thanks for the compliment tubby2, although one thing I have learnt is that the longer you are here, the less you seem to know. This is because things here change so rapidly.
You think you know everything about a particular subject, having reserched it thoroughly, then wham, they change all the rules. How Turks manage I will never know, they just shrug their shoulders and say "this is Turkey, anything can happen"

[Tubby2]

Thanks Steve, I didn't know about the honey. My friend asked me to bring some back for her last year, the one in the jar with the nuts in. I wonder why that is, they certainly try to flog it to you in the market place. I'd better make a list of do's and don'ts for next trip.

[Julie]

I have been bringing honey home from Okcular, from my neighbour Hussain who has his bees not far from us ,(who unfortunately died last year) and lemons off our lemon trees and have luckily not been stopped, but i have had a few funny looks when the cases have gone through the x ray machine.

Regards Julie :Happy: