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This soft, slightly sweet Turkish flatbread is the perfect companion for dips, humus or gyros.

Yes: let’s make some pide ekmek or pide ramadan (“pee-deh”). This Turkish bread is a standard side dish for meals all over Turkey, and is nice and soft on the inside, with big holes and a golden brown crust. It tastes really good with hummus, but trust me, it tastes even better with gyros. You can make one really frighteningly large bread, two more reasonable sized breads or four smaller buns.

Thin, frying-pan baked pancakes, that can be made either sweet or savory.

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Pancakes. The children’s treat in the Netherlands, and the cornerstone of a good Sunday breakfast in the U.S. of A. It is technically not baking, but it involves a doughy batter, and it has cake in the name. Good enough for me. This blog will contain one of the two recipes: Dutch style flat pancakes.