Mint Tea & Tagine

So, sadly as all good things do, our lovely long weekend came to an end and it was time to head home. We waved a fond farewell to the lovely staff at the Ksar Bicha…. and had a last glimpse of the dunes bathing in the morning sun and got on our merry way….

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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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The road between Midelt and Merzouga is a wonderful drive through a breathtaking landscape. Close to Er-Rachidia, you can see the turquoise blue waters of the Barrage Hassan Adakhil against the dark brown outcrops of the mountains. You wind your way through the Ziz Gorges, passing derelict Ksours and people going about their lives.  Once [...]

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I got given a wonderful gift of a few Terfezia today, the desert truffles that are abound at the moment after the rains. Your email:  As the Terfezia are not that strong in flavour I thought they would go really well in a mushroom risotto, combined with some dried porcini and some run of the [...]

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     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 [...]

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Couscous Friday….

When we first moved to Morocco I one day asked Maria to please show me how to cook some “traditional” couscous for dinner. It was about 16h30 and a normal weekday. The response I got was quite astounding and not something I could understand at the time, a cross between “are you mad”, “it is Thursday” and “how could you possibly cook couscous in just an hour and have it for dinner to top it all?”… Needless to say we did not have couscous for dinner!

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