Vegetarian Delight

Our newest friend in Eskisehir and on Facebook is Ibrahim Ersahin.  He has been very helpful to us around our apartment issues over the past couple of weeks.  Ibrahim speaks great English and is the son of our realtor.  He is always willing to be called or e-mailed to give us guidance.  He works for Turkish Railroad  as a mechanical engineer and helps out at his father’s office in the evenings and on weekends.  (He is currently doing a two week training for the railroad) Anyway, because of his love for English we found we had many things to talk about.    Ibrahim was kind to invite us to dinner last evening.  He has a lovely wife, (pictures coming) and a 20 month old son.  Unfortunately by the time we got the camera out his son was in bed but rest assured he is really really a handsome little boy.   I mentioned in an e-mail after the invitation that we were vegetarian and he said that is the preferred way of eating for his wife so Ipek cooked a terrific vegetarian dinner that could have come from a fancy restaurant.  It was delicious.   I don’t have a clue what the names of the dishes were but we had cay (tea) of course, then lentil soup, a wonderful pasta casserole, green beans in a delicious sauce, potatoes with fresh herbs, grape leaves stuffed with rice and dinner ended with a Turkish pumpkin dessert.  Needless to say we were stuffed.  Ipek doesn’t speak English so Ibrahim did the translating.   Their apartment is lovely and like most things in Eskisehir we were able to walk home within 10 minutes.  We’ll look forward to more evenings and interesting discussions together.