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Fried anchovies

Cornmeal is not flour: its coarse grains fry into a glassy crust, and the anchovy steams inside it.

30 min taste 90

Eggs with sucuk

Crack the eggs before the sucuk has released its fat and you get dry sausage and lean eggs. The order is not a preference, it is the recipe.

12 min taste 88

Cheese omelette

The colour of an omelette is a choice: pale means a low flame and brown means a high one, and the second is an accident.

8 min taste 86

Eggy bread

The best use there is for stale bread. Fresh bread is no good here — it collapses before it has absorbed anything.

13 min taste 86

Mıhlama

Cornmeal, butter and a cheese that stretches. The stretch is not a knack but a temperature: past 70 °C it stops stretching and splits.

20 min taste 85

Menemen

Pepper, tomato and egg. Know the order and the heat and it takes fifteen minutes; miss them and you get a watery omelette.

15 min taste 85

Fried eggs in butter

Eight minutes and one number: the butter must not pass 150 °C.

8 min taste 85

Spinach and eggs

Crack the eggs before the spinach has given up its water and a green puddle collects on the plate.

15 min taste 85

Pasta with tomato paste

There is no sauce until the paste has been fried: raw paste stays sour and metallic.