the best meal of the day

My favourite meal in Turkey is breakfast.  I will often try to eat less at lunch or dinner and will sometimes omit one meal entirely when I am still full from the the previous four course meal. But I never hold back at breakfast.  Bring it on, I say!

 

Our hotels all have a buffet set up with a varying amount of items, but there are some that are obviously imperatively part of a typical morning meal.

 

For example:

Yogurt!

Sometimes there is another bowl of fruit yogurt, but natural yogurt is the best.  If I am lucky, I can add sultanas or almonds or oat flakes or honey, or all of them!

They are big on eggs, and there are often hardboiled eggs in one basket identified as 3 minute and in another basket marked 5 minute. 

Hot food is not uncommon, and usually includes some form of pink meat that is sliced like salami or in small pieces like mini-hot dogs.  Sometomes there is a sort of multi-tiered pastry affair that seems to hvea egg in it, but is rather tasteless.  


dried fruit like figs, dates and apricots,
 nuts like hazelnuts and almonds,
fresh fruit like apricots, peaches and berries,
and watermelon without fail

the stickiest jams in the world:
strawberry, raspberry, marmalade, honey
and my personal favourite - charry!
Jams are unusually situated near olives and pickles and pink deli meat

tomatos and cucumbers and greens are staples, as is cheese,
either feta or a curiously bland and tasteless cheese resembling edam



bread goods - not sweet like in North America,
but plaain or flavoured with sesame seeds or poppy seeds