Hello! My name is Melek and this is a small passion project I am pursuing whilst on annual leave from my job as an academic. I would like to use this platform to honour the important women in my life- my mother and mother-in-law, sisters, aunts, cousins and friends- by breathing life into their recipes that have nourished me at some point in my life. While some of these recipes are unique to them, most were passed down from their mothers who in turn inherited them from their mothers and so on. It is this intergenerational transfer of recipes and their ability to travel across time and connect us with our elders that enchants me most about family recipes. And in sharing these recipes with you, my hope is that their reach will extend into your family home and nourish you too.