Since I started making my own kefir at home about a year or so ago I have been substituting buttermilk with kefir in every recipe. Souring the milk by stirring some lemon juice into it and letting it sit is another wellknown substitute for buttermilk but somehow I think kefir gives a better taste [...]

I have learned these cookies from a Turkish blogger, Sibel of Sibel’in Kahvesi. Since she published them it has been baked by many of us several times and has been a total winner. Whoever I served them for asked for the recipe.
Sibel said that they are reproductions of a famous cafe in Ayvalık, a [...]