Following are some of the 20+ dishes that we prepared over the four days we spent in Ula. To say that everything revolved around food during our stay (uh, cooking classes, after all) is irrefutable.

The quality and abundance of ingredients was unbelievable. Most abundant:

• eggplant
• garlic
• olives
• olive oil
• bread
• butter
• wine
• salt
• nuts
• helva
• lamb
• Turkish coffee (eh!)
• Turkish Delight (eh!!!)

Of utmost quality:

• tomatoes
• cheese
• fresh figs
• cucumbers
• honey
• sour cherry preserves

And whenever we askeded Engin, our culinary queen, about some dish that we knew about, she ended up buying the ingredients and moments later we learning how to prepare it outright (fava mezze, eggplant puree).