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 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 06 2009 | Filed under: Food, Food, Photographs, Recipe Books, Sweet
The words that really caught my eye in the Ottolenghi Cookbook, were “We wanted to start this book with the quip, ‘If you dont like lemon or garlic…..skip to the last page.’”! I just knew then that I would love the rest of the book!
The book is a wonderful collection of recipes based on wonderful [...]
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 [...]
Admin on Sep 10 2009 | Filed under: Food, Moroccan Food, Photographs, Recipe Books, Savoury
Some of the flavours that just taste of Morocco to me have to be the combination of lemon, olives, fresh coriander and flat leaf parsley! All produce that is found in abundance here and form part of so many Moroccan dishes.
I am sure I have mentioned this before, but one of my favourite Moroccan recipe [...]
Admin on May 24 2009 | Filed under: Food, Photographs, Recipe Books, Savoury
I have always loved “little bites”. In fact I think I could have an entire meal simply made out of little bits of perfectly cooked (or not) food with simple, good quality ingredients. So needless to say I was delighted when I received a copy of the book, amuse-bouche, by Rick Tramonto for my [...]
Admin on Feb 16 2009 | Filed under: Food, Moroccan Food, Recipe Books, Sweet
In most the markets in Morocco you will find a vendor selling dried rose buds and gorgeous rose water. It is used in everything from deserts and pastries to cooling eye patches…
It is a wonderful delicate flavouring and adds such a unique taste to everything.
I saw these in Julie Le Clerc’s very gorgeous looking [...]
