missing ingredients

Turkish people like the idea of me making something American. It was suggested that I bring potato salad or banana bread to our pot luck.

Well, I don't know how to make banana bread, never tried. And, there's no Cub Foods here (and they make the best potato salad around).

The problem is, I don't think most Turks like the change of taste. They prefer salty at breakfast (never sweet!), and never mixing of salty and sweet. Tomato paste as a staple seasoning.

Another problem is that I have to find the ingredients for whatever I decide to make - and for all the cheeses they have here, they don't have cheddar.

I decided to make an Orzo dish - it's Mediterranean, so I figured I shouldn't have too much trouble. But, sun dried tomatoes are relatively new here (probably because they are sweet), pine nuts are extremely expensive, and I've never seen radicchio here.

And I forgot the sun-dried tomatoes. Tolga went out to four grocery stores, that weren't close, to get me some sun-dried tomatoes for my potluck dish.

Tolga to the rescue.