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You can have a substantial dinner at Kilim Pension but if you prefer you can also have dinner somewhere else, you just tell the cook in the morning.
Even if Sisik lends a hand sometimes, the Chef is Mustafa. His speciality is the “saç tava”, small pieces of beef cooked in a metal plate the shape of a Chinese hat inside out, with sweet peppers and tomatoes. This kind of cooking gives a particular flavour : it’s so delicious !
According to the season, you can also enjoy the first-rate red lentils’ soup or the porridge’s one, the meet stews cooked slowly in a terra-cotta pitcher nearby fire, the tomato flavoured beans, grills on the barbecue (meatballs, skewers, lamb chops..), all kinds of stuffed vegetables (sweet peppers, egg-plants, vine’s leaves, vegetable marrow’s flowers..), the traditional “menemen” (eggs, sweet pepper, tomato, onion..) and so on and so forth...
And the desserts ! Local apricots (preservative free) mixed with pekmez, the baklavas, the dolaz (made with potatoes), the sütlaç (a kind of rice-pudding), the kemal pasa (little biscuits soaked with sugared water)...
Besides, if you fancy having something special, fish for example or something you saw during an outing, don’t hesitate and ask, Mustafa will be delighted to satisfy your taste buds.
And all these exquisite meals will be served with the open smile of Ergin and his untypical blue eyes !
"Breakfast"
Breakfast is Sisik’s father’s work, Ahmet ; he gets up at 5.30, goes to the mosk and then comes to the pension to make a typical Turkish breakfast. It’s a splendid dresser which mainly consists of foods cultivated, gathered and cooked by Sisik’s mother : garden tomatoes and cucumbers, delicious home made jams (apricot, cherry, peach..), pekmez, home made cheese and yogurt... Once a week, you’ll be offered some “gözleme” (kind of pan-cake) stuffed with cheese, minced meat or potatoes. And of course, you’ll be able to drink at discretion the first-rate Turkish tea.
You won’t have to get up as early as Ahmet ! Breakfast at Sisik’s can drag on till 11...
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