A day cooking with giulia and Husniye Ozturk

ton steine gaerten

not just a bench

springtime

tulips

savory

preparing the ingredients

for a Gruene Bohnen Eintopf

bohnen and onions

two of us

onions and bohnen again

overview at ton steine

some parcels

Husniye Ozturk

behind the stage

giulia and Husniye Ozturk

making a video

and waiting for the lunch

it's almost ready

last frame

Gruene Bohnen Eintopf (French Been Stew):

2 red onions, 2 tomatoes,
500 gr turkish green beens (short and flat),
oil, salt.

Clean the green beens.
cut the onion and tomatoes in cubes.
In a big plate mix onions, tomatoes and beans.
Put salt.
Put the pot on the fire and add some oil , than add the vegetables.
add hot water nd cover the pot.
cook for about 20 minutes turning sometimes the stew.

1. In a skillet over medium high heat, melt butter and add rice, stirring and cooking til golden.
2. Add soup mix, then stir in water.
3. Simmer, covered, for 20 minutes or until water is absorbed and the rice is tender.
4. Add turkey and heat through.
5. Serve, if desired, with coconut, chopped peanuts, raisins or chutney.

Austrian records

austrian frittatensuppe

Giulia: Where are you from?
Susanne: From Austria

G: Why did you come to Berlin?
S: Because in Berlin there are things that there aren't in Austria, yes, personal freedom.

G: Which food (also vegetables, fruit, herbs) from your country do you miss?
S: There is everything here, well mostly soups, this "frittaten"(omelette) soup, but there are Austrian restaurants here.

G: What is your favourite recipe from your country?
S: Frittaten soup, it's a soup, the dough is a little bit like crêpes,than you cut it, very easy, you make it like Palatschinke, it is also Austrian, well Palatschinke means in german Pancake I think, and then this is very easily sliced, but the soup is just delicious, and bevor the soup, the broth is prepared, it lasts quite long.

G: Did you grow any fruit vegetables or herbs in your country?
S: In Vienna there is a farmyard where you could rent a piece,
it costed something but not much, yes, I grew something there.
It was already set, and that was everything, all the vegetables, peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, everything that I make here.

G: Do you grow fruits, vegetables, or herbs in Berlin?

S: Yes, cucumbers, all possible herbs, and I try tomatoes.

G: What food, herbs or vegetables is used in your country for medicinal purposes?
S: I can think only to camomille.

G: What do you like to eat to feel better/happy when you are ill?
S: Citrus fruits, oranges, lemons with a lot of vitamin C.

Thank you!

 

Susanne Eybl, Österreich, Ton Steine Gaeten

Susi Butscher | Ton Steine Gaerten

Gayle going to Ton Steine garden

Susi, Gayle and Giulia

It was like the first summer last year so it was like making our experiences. They started out last year around this time, I think I joined in April. I saw the garden, then in March I asked to participate and they had a little plot for me.  Mine is the one on the corner with the table.

Allotments at Ton Steine garden

Now we are full, there’s no free plots left and but in the beginning it was like whoever came just like they should accept that it is more of a group things than an individual, like ‘Its my land and I will not talk to anybody.’ So it’s a really mixed group, a really mixed group, we didn’t expect it to be like this.

Turkish people, because a lot of Turkish people live here, but like even old Turkish people who do not speak a lot of German, and some, I don’t know where in Africa, but some. The Turkish women always have a Samovar and during the summer time they make like a picnic and serve tea to the others.

There’s one Turkish thing, I dont know the name, because its like kohl, cauliflower, but its only the leaf, not the whole head, that’s something that is typically Turkish and they are happy because that is something that you cannot buy here. But then there’s one of the African guys, then he was really happy too because he knew the same plant.  So they are connecting in some way. They make like what you usually make with vine leaves, but they do not take the vine leaves, but this thing.

Gayle and Susi talking

Different ways of fencing

the Turkish corner

However we didn’t expect it to be like this much, because we had these tomatoes there by the corner of the side walk and they were like phswww, gone, so well the local government did not want us to put fences because they say it’s a public space.  But still we want it for the dogs because the dogs come, you know people walk with their dogs, the dogs run in, so I think we will work on this, so at least we have a little door so that the dogs cannot come in.

Ton Steine overview

   

There’s a Spanish girl who asked to put a recipe on the wall, and its what we did, and we cooked this recipe.  She says that she did this all over the world, especially to make people, when there are ethnic tensions, to make people think, to make people more in contact with other ethnics.  The ingredients were grown from here, but we do not have eggplants.


http://gaerten-am-mariannenplatz.blogspot.com/ 

the recipe