Turkish food

[Subtle_badger]

Going to pop in this Turkish food shop in an hour. Any quick suggestions of what I should buy, except obviously venison.

[Subtle_badger]

Paralysed by choice

[Subtle_badger]

Which canned cheese is right for me 🤔

[Sheperdess in reply to Subtle_badger]

Did they have any halloumi-like cheese? We used to get Greek halloumi 🧀 in cans years ago

[Subtle_badger in reply to Sheperdess]

Yup. Lots. In Turkey (I now know) they call it hellim. Didn't buy any, because I still have some in the fridge, but I will

[Subtle_badger in reply to Sheperdess]

Ah, just re-read this. The hellim I identified looked like halloumi in UK supermarkets. I will look for "hellim" on cans, when I return there.

[Sheperdess in reply to Subtle_badger]

Now I know what it’s called I’ll see where I can buy it 🧀😋

[Subtle_badger]

No!

(There were aisles of sugary carbs, unsurprising as Turkey is one of the most obese countries in the world; even worse than the UK! )

[Subtle_badger]

My haul.

Travelling by bike, so couldn't take much.

[MTCee]

Canned cheese? Who knew 😂

[Susasha]

So many unknown food stuffs out there. Fun to check it out even if I wouldn’t know what it says. I tried buying milk in an Icelandic supermarket once and came away with something completely unexpected. It definitely wasn’t milk. Couldn’t use it but I had fun.

[Subtle_badger in reply to Susasha]

Was it skyr? 😋

They sell it in the UK these days, but it tastes nothing like I remember from my trip to Iceland. Halfway between yoghurt and a cheesecake.

[Susasha]

Not quite sure what it was at this point but it wasn’t Skyr which I am familiar with.

[Subtle_badger in reply to Susasha]

I have just double checked. The "skyr" you get outside Iceland (at least in the UK) does not contain rennet, so it's actually quite different from what they have in Iceland. But it's very similar in appearance, so if what ever you bought wasn't similar to a thick yoghurt, then it wasn't skyr.

[Hidden in reply to Subtle_badger]

I tried that as a change from my usual Greek yogurt. I would be interested to try the real Iceland one, because I can't say I greatly liked the English version. It had an odd taste to it that I can't really describe.

[Subtle_badger in reply to Hidden]

If it tasted odd, maybe it was real skyr. Authentic Icelandic skyr uses bacteria just like any other yoghurt and rennet, the substance used to curdle milk into curds and whey at the start of the cheese making process. So genuine skyr tastes like a cross between yoghurt and cream cheese. That could easily taste odd to you.

I just checked the ingredients of all the skyrs I could find in UK supermarkets, and none of them list rennet as an ingredient - but it's possible they use it without mentioning. It's not on the ingredient list of all cheeses either.

[Hidden]

Well, that is possible. A cross between yoghurt and cream cheese would accurately describe the taste...