My Turkish Cookbook Is Out

Easy Turkish & Mediterranean Recipes is out, forty recipes in paperback and on Kindle. I cooked, photographed, wrote and laid out every page of it myself, which took longer than I expected and taught me more than I expected.

There has been a version of this book since 2023, Kindle only. I never had the time or the knowledge to make that edition nice, so I did not really know what to do with the book, and it sat there for three years.

What changed is that I learned the part I had been avoiding. The layout is the hard bit, not the recipes or the photographs or the writing. Getting forty recipes to sit on a page so the whole thing reads like a book took more attempts than I want to admit.

If you have a book sitting unfinished somewhere, the work is not as hard as it looks once you get used to it. Self publishing looks impossible from the outside. That feeling does not last.

The forty recipes are all on the blog, and they are the ones people come back to most. There is a full chapter list on the cookbook page if you want to see what is in it.