My little one is 5 year old!

Menu:

Kisir: Turkish bulgur salad

Pasta salad: Pasta, peas, carrots, corn, yogurt, mayo, olive oil

Smiley potatoes: always hit for kids. Find in frozen veggie sections

 American style :

Purple corn chips, humus, vegetable cream cheese spread, cracker, fresh fruits

Desserts:

Kadayif (kataifi) -should add the recipe soon

Chocolate- strawberry pudding

Muffins on bear stand ( from dollar tree so I wasnt sure if it could really stand but worked, yay!)

Cake: It is homemade by a friend, all from scratch. Coffee cake with white chocolate frosting and fondant decoration.

First Iftar dinner -Ramadan 2012

So me and my little one set this blue table together.
Wrote "Ramazan' (Turkish spelling for the month of Ramadan) with little stoned and she carefully covered the whole table with sets of 3 stones of other kind:)
Upon littign the canled she even sang " Happy Ramadan" song which does not exist:)
THis is not a muslim or Turkish tradition but I just wanted make first iftar of Raadan more colorful and more fun for my 4.5-year old.

Our menu was vegetarian, hence light!

Red lentil soup
Potato- cauliflower dish
Rice pilaf
Salad
Home-made chocolate pudding (recipe coming soon!)

Dates, Turkish delight (lokum) and walnuts as iftariyelik (nuts,dates, dried fruits etc that are eaten as light/ healthy snacks to break fast or during the main courses)

Afiyet olsun!

An idea for Iftar Tables

Ramadan is 4 days away!

I have come up with this idea that I wanted to share with you:

This is great especially when you have guests over. Prepare a menu, put it in a picture frame on the table!
Everyone will know in advance what delicious food they will enjoy!

You can include the names of the host and the date so keep it as a nice memoir from the iftar.
Soup, Main dish, Salad(s), appetizer(s), dessert, drinks , pastry .. more to add!
You can either write by hand or prepare a template and fill according to your menu. Here is a template I prepared.
If you have a theme for the dinner stable, like flowers, a colro theme etc, your picture frame and menu (background, the paper color, some images etc) can match it so even a more fancy idea, isnt it?

I did this when I had my colleagues over for Turkish tea party. Sin the food was new to all, they liked the fact they could see all written:)

Another idea I saw on pinterest is here: