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(Curly Sue) wrote in news:432f2c4f.1168871
@news-server.nyc.rr.com:

>>> A very fine Turkish restaurant (Bosphorus) in Winter Park FL
>>> just started serving the same bread...really good, but I also
>>> have no idea what the name is. ... I just called the restaurant,
>>> it is called "Lavash." Served hot and puffed. Great.
>
> Pavane's answer didn't appear in my usenet feed, so I'll give my
> thanks here for calling the restaurant! I appreciate it.

Interresting, I've only ever known lavash a very thin flat bread, often
used for wraps and such. There is a Turkish bread commonly available here
is a thicker flat bread - chewy, holey, very yummy. You find it in most
supermarkets (ready baked, and in the home bake form) and bakeries, and
many cafes, sandwich shops, etc. offer Turkish amongst the breads.
>
>>Last year we holidayed in Turkey. Lovely place. They served this
>>bread everywhere, but I don't remember the name.
>>
>>They also turn it into a kind of pizza called 'pide'. The topping is
>>put on the bread and 2 opposite edges are folded in to make a long boat
>>shape (I think pide might actually mean boat in Turkish). This is
>>sliced into strips and served. Great finger food!
>>
>>--
>>Paul
>
> That sounds good too! What kinds of topping? meat? vegetable?

Pide is yummy! There are various different toppings - meats, vegies, egg.
There are quite a lot of takeaway places serving pide - quite often doner
kebab places also serve pide. From memory, that is a thinner sort of
bread, but I don't remember the boat shape. I'll have to see if I can
find recipes for both sorts.

There's a kebab, pizza and pide place in Penrith - might get some pide
delivered Saturday night and have a night off cooking.

The area where I work has a large Turkish and middle Eastern population,
so there are a number of takeaway food places serving these sorts of
foods (plus Abla's Sweets - a shop full of lots of very nice and very
fattening baklava and other Turkish sweets) about 10 minutes walk from
work.

One food I sometimes succumb to is borek, which is like the chewier sort
of Turkish bread, with a filling. The ones I've had have been shaped sort
of like a boat shape, but completely closed. I like the spinach and
cheese, but have also had one with sucuk (sp??) which was a spicy
sausage. Googled borek and it looks like it's a name for a range of
filled "pastries" with the crust anything from flaky pastry to a bread.

Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia