.: evil jungle prince :.

Last night's dinner was Turkish grilled peppers with garlic yogurt sauce, or kazarmis biber. I had been wanting to prepare this dish for ages but I've been hesistant to try it without the proper type of peppers, carliston peppers. But when I spotted some nice Anaheim peppers at the grocery store, I thought I'd give it a go.

Now there is food which makes you go "mmm" and then there is food which causes... foodgasm. This dish caused the latter. These sweet peppers were grilled slowly with nothing more than a dab of oil. They were then lovingly dolluped with a bit of thick Greek style yogurt mixed with garlic, salt, and lemon juice. The taste of these flavors mingling, as if at some sexy social event, was heaven; slightly charred peppers and cool, tangy yogurt are a match made by some divine force.

1. To prepare, lightly oil a grill pan and slow grill the peppers until they deflate.

2. In the meantime, prepare a yogurt sauce by mixing Greek yogurt, salt, and lemon juice to taste.

Tip: allow the peppers to cool before adding the yogurt sauce, or the sauce will become runny. Use any large, sweet pepper. I felt the Anaheims were just perfect for this. By the way, if anybody has any carliston (Turkish) pepper seeds, please get in contact! I would like to try growing these as they're impossible to find here in California.