Once I started, I couldn’t stop till midnight. I told myself,several times, only this page then I will go to sleep. When the page is over I said , to myself another several times, only this chapter then I will go to sleep. At the end, I finished reading twilight’s first book. The whole 500 pages went by in just a blink or less!
Well, thanks God I have more books to read. After my journey with the first book, I was afraid to feel lonely especially that I got used to the company of the book! I liked it, I admit. What I liked the most, was feeling the feelings of each character. Sometimes I think that I’m over attracted; simply I laugh, smile, feel sorry etc. At the end its just a story, so is it worth all the feelings I’m feeling for this book? I don’t know. What I enjoy most whenever an attracting book falls into my hands is that, I imagine myself living the story of each one of the characters, the father, the daughter, the friend, the enemy etc. A whole life experience within limited number of pages.Although it is not realistic one but it gives me the feelings I’m seeking to feel.
Now I just started the first chapter of the new moon , the twilight saga second book. It seems to be interesting as well. While reading the first chapter of the second book I noticed that I didn’t go out since I started reading the first book. That was shocking!! I rarely left my room. I would leave it for something important and thats it. A whole week I was somewhat alone, limited conversations with my family and friends, I was busy with cooking, taking pictures and reading and that’s it. Not that much interaction with people. Is that healthy, I asked myself? Although what I’m doing makes my happy but I’m also in a vacation, my relationships with others should be more active than before in these days.
At the end I decided to go out with my sister and have dinner. I knew that would ruin my last day of the raw diet for this week, but I knew that I need to go out and see real people after spending a long time with Bella and Edward ..
I wanted to stay home and continue reading, I wished our dinner plan to be canceled so I can keep reading. I knew that I have to change my daily routine at least for an hour or two. Finally we stuck to the plan, we went to a Japanese restaurant in front of a very breath taking water fountain. The view was really nice , and we had fun. The food was good and different, different than the usual taste.
Since I was a little child I used to eat eggs with basterma a lot. As you know, I prefer eggs on my weekends and my second preference when its made with basterma. I’m not a big fan of meat at all, you may noticed from the big list of meatless recipes, but I do like basterma cooked in diferent ways. Basterma with eggs, cheese, plain etc. The list will never ends.
What I can say about this egg recipe that it is delicious ..
Ingredients
1 egg
5-7 slices basterma
10 g butter
salt and pepper
egg with basterma
Heat the butter in a medium-sized skillet over a medium heat. Add the basterma slices and cook till lightly browned. Gently crack egg on top of the basterma, cover, and let cook 5 minutes. Remove skillet from heat, uncover, season with salt and pepper. Then serve immediately.
enjoy with love,
Maryam








I am not familiar with basterma – is a like our bacon/ham? It looks like it is – it also looks richly delicious. And now I am i the mood for some eggs. Mmmm.
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Oh my those eggs look fantastic, great pics, Glad you enjoyed the book.
Thanks :)
Hi! Basturma and eggs. Now i’m curious what your ethnic background is hehe. Russian? Armenian? Eastern European?
I personally am Armenian, though I know tons of people who eat this for breakfast, I dont do it all that often. I have to have the basturma cooked though.
Do you it “raw” as well?
Wow, this sounds delicious! I’ve got to find basterma to try!
Very nice pics! And your have such an interesting frying pan :-)
The dish looks great, you’ve captured it well. I’ve never had basterma before and it looks really good. I’ll have to try them if I see them.
Yeah .. when I saw it in the supermarket I thought it will be good for taking frying shots !!
I’m Kuwaiti actually .. and for the second question I didn’t understand it, so if you mean the the basterma meat is raw yes it is! if your question is eating the basterma raw “without cooking it” yes you can!
I love egg and basterma (turkish name “pastırma”).
Very savory…
Sounds delicious. Thanks for sharing. I had never heard of basterma/basturma before this post.