My latest article on thisNZlife on how to use your eggplant (aubergine) haul. Just remember to cook them thoroughly to get everyone loving them! Pinar's Turkish Stack

This recipe appeared in Lifestyle Block Magazine and is now on thisNZlife.

Whenever we have a good length of time in a foreign country, we hire a rental car and just go where the moment takes us. We're notoriously lax at planning in advance so, using local maps, a Tom-Tom or our phones, we often head out without bookings or a plan and just trust in following our noses (or...

Goreme, Cappadocia I love spending hours at open-air food markets, seeing what is on offer and how the locals use it. In Turkey we travelled to Cappadocia,  a place known for its incredible landscape. There is nothing like it on earth. It is a semi-arid area with rock formations caused by erosion,...