Admin on Feb 09 2010 | Filed under: Food, Food, Photographs, Savoury
Hi there everyone!
Well the Arabic is going “B’shwiya b’shwiya” – slowly, slowly! Two weeks is only just enough to get the very basics of the language but I am pleased I have done this and will hopefully continue to learn! Secretly my main aim is just to become a better negotiator in the souks so [...]
Admin on Jan 22 2010 | Filed under: Culture, Food, Food, Markets, Moroccan Food, Photographs, Recipe Books, Savoury, Travel, Travel
I have longed to go to Essaouira since we arrived in Morocco almost two years ago. So as you may know we finally got to go down that way on New Year’s Day. Well, it was everything people said it was and more! What a gorgeous place, not even the debris on the beach from [...]
Admin on Jan 05 2010 | Filed under: Food, Food, Photographs, Savoury, Spanish Food, Travel
Happy New Year everyone!! May it be a wonderful year for all of you and your families!
Well back to school, back to life and back to normality for us here in Morocco. It was a very short break for us but we did manage to do a day trip or two and a quick trip [...]
Admin on Dec 11 2009 | Filed under: Food, Food, Markets, People, Photographs, Savoury, Shopping, Travel, Travel
I have really been neglecting this blog of mine over the last few weeks. It just seems a combination of sick children; cold weather and life in general have been getting in the way of all my good intentions of cooking and blogging! Enough excuses though…..
I took a trip down to the Rabat Medina yesterday [...]
Admin on Nov 17 2009 | Filed under: Food, Food, Photographs, Recipe Books, Savoury
There were two ingredients that had me really excited this past week….
1. The gorgeous pomegranates that are around at the moment. They are so juicy and there is something about the look of them that just says buy me!!!
2. Za’atar – this is a Middle Eastern spice consisting of thyme, sumac and sesame seeds amongst [...]
Admin on Nov 15 2009 | Filed under: Food, Food, Gluten Free, Photographs, Savoury
Winter is really taking its time getting here and boy am I not complaining!! We have had a few days of wonderful sunshine but it is getting quite chilly at night, perfect for a light soup for dinner.
My kids love butternut soup, but as our stocks have dried up we had to substitute pumpkin! It worked [...]
Admin on Nov 03 2009 | Filed under: Food, Food, Gluten Free, Markets, Moroccan Food, People, Photographs, Savoury, Shopping, Travel, Travel
One of my favourite places here in Rabat is the Rabat Medina. It is a wonderful place to have a stroll about, looking at little odds and ends without the hassle that you get in some of the larger medinas in Morocco.
There is one little courtyard that has a trader I have come to know [...]
Admin on Oct 21 2009 | Filed under: Food, Savoury
Two things I am a huge fan of are…risotto…and magazines! Well you may be wondering what the two possibly have to do with each other. In Morocco we really battle to get English publications, and as gorgeous as the French and Moroccan publications are, my language skills are still sorely lacking and translating page after [...]
Admin on Oct 20 2009 | Filed under: Food, Food, Gluten Free, Moroccan Food, Photographs, Savoury
So Meat Free Monday was a huge success in our house yesterday, following on the beetroot gazpacho for lunch we had a lovely vegetable tagine for dinner!
Tagines are really easy to throw together and if you don’t have a tagine, just use a saucepan with a tight fitting lid! You could serve this with couscous [...]
Admin on Oct 19 2009 | Filed under: Food, Gluten Free, Recipe Books, Savoury, Spanish Food
One of my favourite recipe books has to be Moro East by Sam and Sam Clark. It combines so many of the flavours I love both from Morocco and Spain in some wonderful recipes. (In fact I love their other two books, The Moro Cookbook and Casa Moro as well!).
I saw their recipe for Beetroot [...]
