Oh the food...the food on this whole trip has been wonderful so far. For reasons I may explain later, we only ate one meal out as a family in Istanbul, typically lunch. Then we'd get a few things from the corner store and make dinner at the flat. Dinner is generally noodles of some sort, because that makes the kids happy and is inexpensive, easily available. The kids have come light years from where they were, in trying new foods and not complaining when nothing very familiar is on the menu.
Here's a sampling of the nosh.
Mezza plate from an outdoor cafe where we ate the day we arrived. The tomato stuff at the top was especially yummy.
One of the at-home dinners. We found some smoked sausage, with Turkish spices--peppery and delicious. Lots of olives were eaten as well.
This is our dessert sampler at a restaurant in the Grand Bazaar, Havuzlu. We ate traditional foods from the region. The boys had gyros, I had a vegetable casserole similar to moussaka, and John had a casserole dish that included ground meat. Then we ordered the cheese-stuffed pastries soaked in syrup, the creme caramel, and the "milk pudding" (a pastry stuffed with light sweet vanilla yumminess). Here's a not-very-impressive shot from the restaurant:
And some apple tea, served everywhere, but this time at Havuzlu.
This stand was one of our favorite places--shade and ice cream. What else can you want?
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