Dinner tonight in Cardak, with Eren (sitting to my right), Ozgur (sitting to Eren’s right), and Hasan (sitting to Ozgur’s right).
Dinner was a delicious, and oh-so-filling, assortment of dishes: mercimek corbasi (lentil soup), coban salata (shepherd’s salad – diced tomatoes, cucumbers, and onions, with lemon juice), pilav (rice), and the main dish, a reduced “soup” made of ground beef, green peppers, tomatoes, and some spices.
Dinner was followed by an impromptu tour of the village on the back of a motorcycle, and then a desert of tulumba (imagine cylinder-shaped donut holes saturated in honey) and ice cream.