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 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 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 [...]
Admin on Sep 28 2009 | Filed under: Food, Gluten Free, Savoury
Meat Free Mondays……..
There is definitely something very comforting about butternut soup. With autumn in full swing here and a definite nip in the air at night this is a perfect light meal. If you don’t have kids (or your kids don’t mind chilli) add a few slices of red chilli when you add the garlic [...]
Admin on Sep 22 2009 | Filed under: Culture, Food, Gluten Free, Photographs, Savoury, Spanish Food, Travel
On the Northern tip of Morocco, just east of Tangier, where the Atlantic meets the Mediterranean, there is a little piece of Spain called Ceuta, in fact further along the coast there is another one as well known as Melilla. The closest for us is Ceuta or Sebta as it is sometimes known in Morocco. [...]
Admin on Sep 14 2009 | Filed under: Culture, Food, History, Photographs, Savoury, Travel
This morning I had to take our daughter to the paediatrician which is conveniently situated right next to one of Rabats most well known landmarks. As we had some time to pass before our appointment we had a wander around the grounds of the Tour de Hassan before it got packed with people.
The two main structures are [...]
