Eggs with spicy sausage...

Even if the rose of our love has faded away,

Even if our eyes are filled with tears,

Even if our time has come to an end,

We will get together in our dreams, we will meet with this song...

Oh, what a beautiful song, what a beautiful voice... one does need to know Turkish to feel it... like "sucuklu yumurta", or eggs with spicy Turkish sausage, one does not need to be Turkish to enjoy sucuklu yumurta.

To a Turkish who lives abroad, sucuklu yumurta is more than eggs with some spicy sausage. It is a love lost in the past, a story that has to be told and shared with friends in the new home country...

Yes we want to tell our story to our friends over dinner, but who wants to have eggs with some sausage as main course at a dinner party, really? That was the challenge. The idea came from Daisy and I developed the recipe and the cooking technique. Here is our story, here is my recipe, in which I meet with sucuklu yumurta.

Ingredients:

Equal number of

- thin slices from a baguette

- thick slices of a spicy sausage (we use spicy Turkish soojook, you can go with chorizo)

- quail eggs (bildircin yumurtasi)

and mayonnaise

First thing to do is to crack each quail egg into a table spoon. Lay several table spoons on a plate. Quail egg has a very soft shell. First crack the shell by using the back of a knife, then tear the shell with its sharp tip. Crack it into a spoon, one spoon per each egg.

Next toast the baguette slices either in a toaster or in the oven. Spread a little mayonnaise, a very thin layer, on each slice. It will be an amazing complement to the spicy sausage, but do not overdo it.

Fry both sides of soojook slices in a nonstick pan on medium high heat, place one soojook slice on each baguette.

Each soojook slice will leave some fat on the pan. Now carefully pour one egg from spoon on each fatty area. Once the egg white is set, which will happen very quickly, lower the heat to medium-low, cook the eggs until the white part is done and the yolk is still runny. If you keep the heat high, the white part will be done too quickly and the yolk will stay uncooked. Once the eggs are cooked, transfer them to the top of the soojook slices with a spatula. Salt and pepper, serve as appetizer immediately.

This is a very simple recipe folks, the most tricky part is finding the quail eggs. If you are one of those lucky ones who happen to live in the south like us, in the Raleigh-Durham area to be precise, there is a specialty store in Carrboro, Cliff's meat market, they have it.

Try it, hear our story... no, they don't shoot such movies any longer...