I equally love the episodes related to lifestyle and the episodes related to history, culture and architecture!!! Thank you, dear Stephanie and Ollie, for variety in your videos!!! They are all highly entertaining!!!❤🥰
Love being with you in Turkey! Steph, so glad you bought slippers for yourself. Beautiful & high quality fabric .... just your style 😅 It will always have a fond memory & bring you joy and comfort every time you wear them!
I’d love to see one on fabrics, I always find you so well informed and interesting. So travels to souleiado or further afield to India to see block printing and paisley would be a dream….just a suggestion.
I am currently in hospital waiting for eveving meal. (dont ask). However, where I live, irtually everything is at hand. So I lease Friday and will buy everything needed for these dishes. Keep part for a meal the rest deep frozen for later. T thing I know with certain foods is that flavours are enhanced. To current situation! You videos were absolutely brilliant and will most certainlnly be tried and tested. THANK YOU FRIENDS ❤. ALEX XXXX
Oh my gosh, I want to jump on a plane and go to Istanbul!!! Incredible video with incredible people, food and shopping!!! Well done you two!! I want those pink slippers!!! Love from Mary in Southern California 💗
I left work thinking I need a change- and look how easy - transported to a snowy magical day in Istanbul, complete with pink feathery slippers that every girl needs tho she may not know it right now. Thank you Stephanie and Oliver! You rescued my spirits just being your lovely selves ❤🙏🏼🦋
Thank you Ollie and Steph for another wonderful episode of Travels with my Friend. You both did amazing with the preparation of the food and it all looked wonderful. Can't wait to see what happens next. X
In the USA stevia is a powder sugar in a small yellow packets, just like the pink a was saccharin. Loved the look of the food, I love the stuffed grape leaves.
I don’t know why I seem to end up watching these cooking videos just before lunch or dinnertime. Then I go to the pantry and scan the shelves looking in vain for Turkish delights. Same with my refrigerator. I stand with the doors wide open and nothing remotely strikes my fancy like those tempting goodies that Ollie and Stephanie are devouring. Oh well, looks like a quick peanut butter and jelly sandwich again. At least these entertaining and taste-tempting cooking videos give me plenty to dream about.
I always wanted some 'carpet' shoes so I got some, love them and soooooo well made. I originally saw them on an english website for a FORTUNE and seeing that they were made in Turkey I contacted a shop on Etsy and had some made for a quarter of the price ! Have decided to get one pair a year, will be starting a 'shoe jar' !
We freeze shredded zucchini so we can have similar pancakes in January. I use less flour and more egg, pesto and parmesan and cook exactly as shown here.
Gotta say, I love dolma; each year I wait for the grape vines burst into leaf, bidding my time until they grow to my hands size. Only in spring are the leaves tender enough to make the delightful dish. Wrapped well they freeze just fine. They don't last all year but long enough to impatiently wait for the next year's spring.
Oliver and Stephanie, as always a delight. Those snowy scenes of the city were particularly appealing - all those strange rooves coated in a stillness of deep snow.
Hey you guys...Another great video! Just in time for my afternoon coffee hour (3:00 USA time)... Fun to watch the cooking and LOVE the shoes you bought ...Question: So Oliver, did you get the rug with the gold? VERY unique...👍
Thank you Ollie and Stephanie for your beautiful and informative vlogs on Turkey. Even in winter, a visitor can enjoy the cooking school and register for their food tours, the herb and spice market, and, why not, look at the lovely products in the Bazaar. Turkey is on my bucket list now, and if I could, purchase the golden rug! Thank you again, I enjoy both of your vlogs and look forward to more. Liza
Stephanie and Ollie I don't know if you've thought about this but you could look at which videos have higher views and then organize a trip where you take a group to some of the same places and I bet the spots would sell out fast! I've watched some other travel youtubers do this and they had a lot of fun. I'd certainly consider going on a tour with you two in the future.
love this - everything made my mouth water, i love those people who teach the cooking classes but i would just love to eat what they make!! such a fascinating city thanks for this video as well!
And so goodbye to delightful, colourful, stunning and culturally rich Turkey - I have thoroughly enjoyed my vicarious journeys with you two lovely people😍 Dear Stephanie and Oliver thank you again. Can't wait for your next vlog. Stay healthy and travel safely. Blessings to your loved ones as always.
I do enjoy a cooking video! Thank you for creating this one. We have many Turkish restaurants here and the vine leaves are always a joy! If you look at a channel called Acre Homestead, Becky has a machine called a Freeze Dryer and she is able to preserve the munificent harvest of zuchhinis which she grows. Such a machine may be useful for you? Apparently freeze drying ensures a far longer shelf life than dehydrating. Thank you for the video!
Thank you to the lovely professional and friendly couple of Cooking Alaturka, and thank you Ollie and Stephanie for your charming, entertaining vlogs, I can't travel for health and financial reasons but I went to Istanbul in my 20s and I loved it, although for a single woman it was more challenging to travel solo in the 80s, I'd love to go there again one day x
Oh my goodness my taste buds are watering watching you eat the dolmatha, we have sometimes a tomato sauce with them, but mostly it is egg and lemon sauce we prefer, after the dolmatha`s have cooked in stock we take some of the stock and add egg and lemon juice, and then add back into the rest of the stock and gently swirl the pan around, that way it does not curdle, the dish is just to die for and we have crusty bread to help soak up the sauce
Such fun! Looks delicious! you both did an excellent job! The chefs are such great teachers. Stephanie and Ollie are fantastic tour guides and certainly do make these journeys such a joy! Loved the shows and loved and chose, the blue and green, and then when you showed the pink ones, I knew that was for you! Might be hard to find a bag to match that one? lol But, with slippers you will not need a bag? Very nice store though and very tempting indeed.
Thank you Stephanie & Oliver ❤ Stephanie, I never thought doing the courgette dish (mujver in Turkish) in smaller bite size, but because of health concerns (fried) and especially because of laziness, I make a « gâteau courgette » in the oven … the taste is almost the same and it is quicker … the stuffed vine leaves and the courgette dish are two of my favourite dishes in Turkish cuisine …
Those dishes look amazing. That is a wonderful restaurant. Thumbs up to them. I love the shops. The colors and the amazing art, dishware, carpets, clothes, and shoes, not to mention the spice shop, I am in awe. Ollie, I hope you made some of the dishes at home. Stephanie, those eggplant pancakes are an excellent recipe. I'm sorry to hear about the flooding. There are so many disasters this year. For us, it was fires. The whole video is so well done. I loved the drone filming.❤
How long do you soak the vine leaves in water? And what is the timing for each of the "Three Soaks"??? I am not a confident cook, but I feel as though even I could attempt these recipes....😋 Wish the shopping segment was three times longer. I can just imagine all the unique items that were just waiting to be seen.....😁
I equally love the episodes related to lifestyle and the episodes related to history, culture and architecture!!! Thank you, dear Stephanie and Ollie, for variety in your videos!!! They are all highly entertaining!!!❤🥰
Aww.. I'll bet, Phillip would have loved a pair of shoes, or a robe!!
Wonderful watch again....and those slippers were made for you Stephanie!🥰 Sandi x
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Hiya Lovlies, Thankyou for sharing. Blessings luv Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🐝
Fabulous! Original, informative and fun - loved it all. Thank you!
This is such a wonderful program !
Travelling vicariously with you both is an absolute pleasure .Thank you❤
I’m so glad Stephanie got those shoes! I kept thinking of all her peacock dresses and how perfectly they would enhance those outfits. 🥰
Love being with you in Turkey! Steph, so glad you bought slippers for yourself. Beautiful & high quality fabric .... just your style 😅 It will always have a fond memory & bring you joy and comfort every time you wear them!
So sad about the flooding in Istanbul. Glad you all got to visit when you did.
Keeping Percy in my prayers.
I hope Ollie has cooked for the mrs.
Loving Istanbul via Stephanie and Ollie
I’d love to see one on fabrics, I always find you so well informed and interesting. So travels to souleiado or further afield to India to see block printing and paisley would be a dream….just a suggestion.
I am currently in hospital waiting for eveving meal. (dont ask). However, where I live, irtually everything is at hand. So I lease Friday and will buy everything needed for these dishes. Keep part for a meal the rest deep frozen for later. T thing I know with certain foods is that flavours are enhanced.
To current situation! You videos were absolutely brilliant and will most certainlnly be tried and tested. THANK YOU FRIENDS ❤. ALEX XXXX
Oliver funny man. And what meticulous crafts people the two 'big chefs' are!! 🧡🧡💛💛💚💚💜💜
Oh my gosh, I want to jump on a plane and go to Istanbul!!!
Incredible video with incredible people, food and shopping!!! Well done you two!! I want those pink slippers!!!
Love from Mary in Southern California 💗
The two of you are amazing friends and such fun. Thank you for taking us along with you.
I left work thinking I need a change- and look how easy - transported to a snowy magical day in Istanbul, complete with pink feathery slippers that every girl needs tho she may not know it right now. Thank you Stephanie and Oliver! You rescued my spirits just being your lovely selves ❤🙏🏼🦋
Good travels! Enjoyed it!
What the heck! You took me outa that bazaar way too soon! Stevia will grow in your garden Steph....
I keep saying the same thing. I love these videos.
Those blue and green ones are the ones I'd go for in a heart beat!
Fabulous ❤ delicious food, sumptuous fabric, carpets and shoes and spices and great banter of 2 old friends. Delightful! Thank you. ❤
Lovely video. Looks sooo cold though. Thank you for sharing. Keep on cooking.
What a lovely little trip I had this afternoon. Food. Shoes. Carpets. Sheer luxury. And a stunningly beautiful snow covered city.
Thanks to you both.
Lovely from start to finish!❤
Great like always cant stop watching so keepem coming 😂 😂 😂 you ywo just kick it out of the ballgame just love it ❤❤❤😊😊😊
Lovely vlog. Thanks Ollie and Stephanie
Really enjoyed this! Food looked delicious and loved the shoes Stephanie.
Thank you Ollie and Steph for another wonderful episode of Travels with my Friend. You both did amazing with the preparation of the food and it all looked wonderful. Can't wait to see what happens next. X
That is like stuffed cabbage. I had to start this from the beginning because I missed 23 minutes of it. 😄
I have really enjoyed your Turkish trip
Just wonderful !!!!!
In the USA stevia is a powder sugar in a small yellow packets, just like the pink a was saccharin. Loved the look of the food, I love the stuffed grape leaves.
I don’t know why I seem to end up watching these cooking videos just before lunch or dinnertime. Then I go to the pantry and scan the shelves looking in vain for Turkish delights. Same with my refrigerator. I stand with the doors wide open and nothing remotely strikes my fancy like those tempting goodies that Ollie and Stephanie are devouring. Oh well, looks like a quick peanut butter and jelly sandwich again. At least these entertaining and taste-tempting cooking videos give me plenty to dream about.
Another wonderful vlog
I think this might be my new favorite RUclips show! Well done, you two.
Stephanie the food looked great I hope you went and had your rings cleaned you should have took them off before you made anything thank you Oliver
What a treat! So fun! Loved every minute. Thank you xx
I always wanted some 'carpet' shoes so I got some, love them and soooooo well made. I originally saw them on an english website for a FORTUNE and seeing that they were made in Turkey I contacted a shop on Etsy and had some made for a quarter of the price ! Have decided to get one pair a year, will be starting a 'shoe jar' !
It looks beautiful with the snow. Cookery lesson was very enjoyable. Thanks again for sharing. Xx
What a great show,I'll be tuning in for more adventures for sure.What a good team!
I love the bazaar & the recipes. Everything looks delicious.
Steffanie I can't believe you had your rings on while mixing the meat mixture 😄
Yes, but hands and rings thoroughly washed--probably sanitizd
YUM !!!
Loved it
We freeze shredded zucchini so we can have similar pancakes in January. I use less flour and more egg, pesto and parmesan and cook exactly as shown here.
What a great experience! Such a delicious meal! Great episode❣️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I eat a lentil soup just like this at a local Turkish restaurant. It's my favorite! Now I can make it. 😊
Love all your trips so much fun and interesting and both Ollie and you are such good speakers and funny to boot! ❤ Thank you for taking us along B
Wow stunning ! 🥇🥇🥇🤗🤗🤗🤗😘😘😘🤗😍😍😍😍😍😍🥇🥇🥇🥇
Thank you so much really enjoy your watching you traveling xxxxxxx
Such a fun episode. Thanks for sharing 😊
I want a pair of those shoes!😂
Steph grate carrot and onion with the zucchini and make the pancakes…SO good!
I’ve never seen pictures of Istanbul in the snow and it’s so wonderful to come back and revisit more of this amazing trip you had.
Again i really enjoyed yet another journey with you both i have put istanbul on my bucket list.😊
Gotta say, I love dolma; each year I wait for the grape vines burst into leaf, bidding my time until they grow to my hands size. Only in spring are the leaves tender enough to make the delightful dish. Wrapped well they freeze just fine. They don't last all year but long enough to impatiently wait for the next year's spring.
Thanks, I enjoyed it very much❤
The food looks so good! I'm drooling. 😃 I love Turkish food.
Oliver and Stephanie, as always a delight. Those snowy scenes of the city were particularly appealing - all those strange rooves coated in a stillness of deep snow.
Oh I so enjoyed that, the food looked delicious and the bazaar was wow. ❤❤
Each vlog is better than the last! This is pure magic!
stevia is great, I have been using it in liquid forms for years!!!! :)
I really enjoyed the Istanbul visits!!!
Gosh I love these videos!
I was there in the late sixties---so wonderful! Thank you. I had forgotten thet i used to make dolmades!
Fabulous
Yum! Love the cooking classes - I’ve saved the episode so I can make the zucchini pancakes 😀
Such great travel episodes - thank you!
lovely video
Hey you guys...Another great video! Just in time for my afternoon coffee hour (3:00 USA time)...
Fun to watch the cooking and LOVE the shoes you bought ...Question: So Oliver, did you get the rug with the gold? VERY unique...👍
Love love love your travels in Turkey!🤗🇨🇦
That was awsome 😊😊😊😊
Do love the slippers . ❤
Wonderful episode!
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I hope you bought those shoes!? Venice would love them!
Stevia is really popular in the US. Thought it was funny that Ollie never heard of it.
Shoes, omg!
Thank you Ollie and Stephanie for your beautiful and informative vlogs on Turkey. Even in winter, a visitor can enjoy the cooking school and register for their food tours, the herb and spice market, and, why not, look at the lovely products in the Bazaar. Turkey is on my bucket list now, and if I could, purchase the golden rug! Thank you again, I enjoy both of your vlogs and look forward to more. Liza
So much fun,I felt I was there with you scanning the shoes for a pair I’d like lol can’t wait to see you both share the recipes @home. Much love 💕
Excellent travelogue `. Feels like i e been there with you…
Stephanie and Ollie I don't know if you've thought about this but you could look at which videos have higher views and then organize a trip where you take a group to some of the same places and I bet the spots would sell out fast! I've watched some other travel youtubers do this and they had a lot of fun. I'd certainly consider going on a tour with you two in the future.
love this - everything made my mouth water, i love those people who teach the cooking classes but i would just love to eat what they make!! such a fascinating city thanks for this video as well!
I absolutely LOVE this series and I hope it never ends! You both have such an amazing energy I really enjoy each episode. Thank you for this. ❤❤
And so goodbye to delightful, colourful, stunning and culturally rich Turkey - I have thoroughly enjoyed my vicarious journeys with you two lovely people😍 Dear Stephanie and Oliver thank you again. Can't wait for your next vlog. Stay healthy and travel safely. Blessings to your loved ones as always.
I do enjoy a cooking video! Thank you for creating this one. We have many Turkish restaurants here and the vine leaves are always a joy! If you look at a channel called Acre Homestead, Becky has a machine called a Freeze Dryer and she is able to preserve the munificent harvest of zuchhinis which she grows. Such a machine may be useful for you? Apparently freeze drying ensures a far longer shelf life than dehydrating. Thank you for the video!
The black & white shoes looked the best & of course the feathery ones!
Didnt want it to end xx
Thank you to the lovely professional and friendly couple of Cooking Alaturka, and thank you Ollie and Stephanie for your charming, entertaining vlogs, I can't travel for health and financial reasons but I went to Istanbul in my 20s and I loved it, although for a single woman it was more challenging to travel solo in the 80s, I'd love to go there again one day x
Wonderful food, friends and SHOPPING!
Watched 3 vlogs now, catching up!
Thank you, from Oz!🥳🥰🐝🐝🌼🌻
I must just say what a stunningly clean kitchen!
How beautiful!! I didn't know it snowed in Istanbul. The food looked delicious.
Oh my goodness my taste buds are watering watching you eat the dolmatha, we have sometimes a tomato sauce with them, but mostly it is egg and lemon sauce we prefer, after the dolmatha`s have cooked in stock we take some of the stock and add egg and lemon juice, and then add back into the rest of the stock and gently swirl the pan around, that way it does not curdle, the dish is just to die for and we have crusty bread to help soak up the sauce
Such fun! Looks delicious! you both did an excellent job! The chefs are such great teachers. Stephanie and Ollie are fantastic tour guides and certainly do make these journeys such a joy! Loved the shows and loved and chose, the blue and green, and then when you showed the pink ones, I knew that was for you! Might be hard to find a bag to match that one? lol But, with slippers you will not need a bag? Very nice store though and very tempting indeed.
Thank you Stephanie & Oliver ❤ Stephanie, I never thought doing the courgette dish (mujver in Turkish) in smaller bite size, but because of health concerns (fried) and especially because of laziness, I make a « gâteau courgette » in the oven … the taste is almost the same and it is quicker … the stuffed vine leaves and the courgette dish are two of my favourite dishes in Turkish cuisine …
I loved this Turkish journey. Thank you for these videos.
Those dishes look amazing. That is a wonderful restaurant. Thumbs up to them.
I love the shops. The colors and the amazing art, dishware, carpets, clothes, and shoes, not to mention the spice shop, I am in awe. Ollie, I hope you made some of the dishes at home. Stephanie, those eggplant pancakes are an excellent recipe. I'm sorry to hear about the flooding. There are so many disasters this year. For us, it was fires.
The whole video is so well done. I loved the drone filming.❤
Absolutely loved the video. The SHOES!! So lovely. They are on my to get list. Lol
Another utterly delicious and delightful experience you've both shared with us. How blessed we are! 🙏
Love, Jacqueline from New Zealand
How long do you soak the vine leaves in water? And what is the timing for each of the "Three Soaks"??? I am not a confident cook, but I feel as though even I could attempt these recipes....😋
Wish the shopping segment was three times longer. I can just imagine all the unique items that were just waiting to be seen.....😁
Great pop to the shop, wish you bought the lush rug