I noticed while in Minnesota that meat was the center of all our meals. I don't know if this was my cooking style or cooking lack, but here we eat a lot less meat. Partly because its expensive, partly because we have Turkish style breakfasts during the week, partly because I love making different pasta dishes.
Typically I cook something more lavish on the weekends. A roast chicken with vegetables. Kofte. Chicken curry.
Lately, Tolga and I decided to specifically buy meat and fish on the weekends from the local butcher and fishmonger. The first week we bought Istavrit - which I learned later was Horse Mackeral. We bought a kilo of fish, they gutted and cleaned the fish, and we got some calimari too. Tolga fried the fish and we ate like kings.
The next week we got a kilo of meat. It was too much and I don't know what kind of beef it was, and I didn't cook it well so we chewed it up and washed it down with red wine.
Yesterday, we hiked through the snow back to the fishmonger and bought Lebrek - Sea Bass. I baked with with olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic, lemons and herbs. We had white wine with it, a salad and some calimari again. Afterwards, Tolga smoked his Cuban cigar given to him by a cousin.
What a treat.
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