Mint Tea & Tagine

Well after a wonderful 8 days in Mozambique, our time sadly had come to an end and we headed back to South Africa. As I said before I would highly recommend a trip there, the beaches are fantastic and the people are generally unbelievably friendly!!! I hope you enjoyed the journey with me! 

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We love travelling in Africa and there is nothing better than the sights, smells and sounds of arriving in a new country. Whilst there are many similarities between the countries in the Southern African region, to me they each have their own unique charm. We had the pleasure of visiting Mozambique on our recent trip [...]

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Whichever way you prefer to spell it, Tagine along with couscous, has to be one of the dishes most synonymous with Moroccan cuisine. In Morocco it is mostly spelt tagine. Couscous is traditionally prepared on Fridays, whilst tagine is eaten pretty much on a daily basis. Tagine refers both to the pottery dish with a [...]

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Rabat hosts an annual music festival called the  “Festival Mawazine,  Rhythmes du Monde”. The rundown for this year has been: 9 days 9 venues 100 concerts 5 continents 40 countries There are stages erected around the city and nightly performances. And the best part is that most of the concerts are free!! The artists include, [...]

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For some reason I find myself buying fennel most weeks, with all good intentions of trying new and exciting recipes with it, but alas, I always seem to find it lurking at the back of the fridge a few weeks later! It is a great vegetable, which certainly, in our house, doesn’t get used as [...]

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I was reading Jeanne’s post on some very delicious looking Chickpea and Paprika Crostini over at Cooksister.com and after hopelessly failing the chickpea quiz decided I should stick to the preparation of them instead!!! I love chickpeas and always keep a packet ready to use in my freezer. So combined with some leftover roasted red [...]

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 Time to move on after a wonderful lunch…… ….. Fossils…… This area is full of them and you see them being sold all along the roadside in all shapes and sizes. We visited an area with fossils beds, where natural fossils, millions of years-old are found. I am certainly not a geology expert of any [...]

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 The Camel has a single hump, The dromedary two, Or is it just the other way, I’m never sure — are you? Ogden Nash Well in fact, it is the other way around…the dromedary camel has one hump!  Ten years ago, for our honeymoon we went elephant riding in Zimbabwe, so what a better way [...]

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