Yaren always came home from school hungry. Since her mother was working, she always put something in the refrigerator for her to eat. Today, Yaren wanted to eat bitter turunç jam. Before the earthquake, she would pick turunç fruits from the turunç tree in their garden and her mother would make jam. She didn't know how it was done at all. She got impatient and called her mother and asked her to tell her how to make orange jam.

Her mother told she. First, we gently peel the outer skins of a kilogram of citrus with a grater. Then we string the shells that we cut into slices into rolls. We put it in water and add new water by pouring the water in the morning and evening for three days. On the third day, we pour out the water, add one and a half kilos of sugar and let it sit in the sugar for a day. Finally, we boil it in its own juice until it becomes jam, without adding any water.

Şükran Yenigelen - Ekrem İnci Kİndergarten - Esenyurt -İstanbul- 

Yaren realized that it was not possible to make citrus jam right now and hung up the phone. While eating, she decided to eat the fruit salad prepared by her mother and wondered if my friends were as hungry when they came home as I was. What do they like to eat? There were children from many different countries in their classes. Istanbul was a very big city and was nothing like Hatay. The next day at school, he asked his friends what they liked about the place they lived and decided to write down the recipes in a notebook. Who knows what a colorful table it will be, a table prepared with foods from all over the world.

Şükran Yenigelen - Ekrem İnci Kİndergarten - Esenyurt -İstanbul- 

Şeyma Biçer Hatice Seyit Çeker Primary  School  Nizip/Gaziantep/Türkiye

   Her classmate, Gülce, was born in Gaziantep, Turkey. They started living in Istanbul a few years ago.

    Gülce said that the food she likes to eat the most is Antep baklava.

    Pistachio baklava was made by rolling out the prepared dough meringue thinly and turning it into a phyllo, then placing melted butter and pistachios between the phyllo dough. After the baklava was baked in the oven, when hot sherbet was poured on it, that wonderful taste was ready to be eaten.

   Yaren wrote down what Gülce told her in her notebook.

Kristiine-Teele Satsi & Sigrit Jänes, Tallinn Kidergarten Pääsusilm. Estonia

In her class there were sisters from Estonia capital city Tallinn. Their names were Iti and Elina. Iti and Elina shared that in winter time in Estonia, there is lots of snow. And then they like to bake gingerbreads and decorate them with sugar icing. This is something they always to in home and in schools. 

For this you need gingerbread dough, flour and sugar icing made from egg whites and powder sugar.

Yaren worte this in her notebook.

Her classmate Elif lived in Istanbul / Maslak. They decided to organize a great event together with their teacher Ms. Gülşen. There was going to be a “Fruit Salad Party” in the classroom.  Each child brought their favorite fruits: apples, bananas, oranges, grapes, strawberries and kiwis. Teacher Gülşen explained to the children how fun and healthy it is to make fruit salad. First, everyone washed the fruits they brought and cut them into small pieces.

 Kerem cut the bananas into small slices. Zeynep peeled and sliced the oranges. A colorful and delicious fruit salad emerged. Finally, everyone took a plate and poured some fruit salad. Everyone noticed how delicious the berries tasted. Teacher Gülşen said that making fruit salad is not only fun and delicious, but also a healthy snack. And from that day on, making fruit salad became one of their favorite activities.

GÜLŞEN ŞAHİN -ITU OZEL DR SEDAT ÜRÜNDÜL KINDERGARTEN /İSTANBUL TURKEY

Gülistan Duygu YÖNTEM

 Mateja Lah Vojska

New students came to the school from different districts of Istanbul. Teacher Eda decided to have a welcome picnic for them in the school garden. They each brought their favorite foods. Elif brought colorful fruits and told the other students, "Fruits make us healthy and energetic!" said. Zeynep brought sandwiches and said, “Sandwiches feed us and make us strong!” he added. Eren brought healthy snacks and said, "Snacks help us focus in our classes!" said. Thus, a picnic full of colorful plates began in the garden of Little Friends School. Students chatted with each other, talked about their colors and played games.