Strained yogurt with a distinct sour taste. It is usually mixed with fresh herbs in a pesto-like purée called delal. Yogurt is a side dish to all Iranian meals. Strained yogurt is used as dips and various appetizers with multitudes of ingredients: cucumbers, onions, shallots, fresh herbs (dill, spearmint, parsley, cilantro), spinach, walnuts, zereshk, garlic, etc. The most popular appetizers are spinach or eggplant borani, ‘’Mâst-o-Khiâr’’ with cucumber, spring onions and herbs, or ‘’Mâst-Musir’’ with wild shallots. In Turkey, strained yogurt is known as "süzme yoğurt" ("strained yogurt") or "kese yoğurdu" ("bag yogurt"). Water is sometimes added to it in the preparation
Parsley Days were the ones where Kate and Ollie are at the unnamed lake. Dorfman got her supporting cast from the Halifax independent music scene. Dorfman uses a style of filming where the characters and the audience have a sense of intimacy between them. The reason why Dorfman had the idea of using parsley to induce a natural abortion in the first place is because, her friend was pregnant and tried to use parsley to end her pregnancy. Folk is the way in which something connects traditionally or culturally to the environment around it. "Parsley Days" has an element of folk as