It's the blog post you've been waiting for - Food!! Let's start cooking up some fantastic, flavorful, food! Or we can look at photos of food I
ate and I will try to tell you what it is.
My very first meal in Morocco cooked by my mom. It’s eggs, bread, a squash type soup, and
French fries. All Yellow Food! I think
she knows and loves me already.
This is very pretty mint and rose tea. It’s delicious and full of sugar! We drink tea about 5 times a day. Probably a diabetic now.
This is tea time. Everyday we have tea or coffee at 6:00pm with either cake or cookies. If a guest is coming over we make ALL of it and stuff our faces. My favorite is the round cake!
This is couscous Friday. Every person in Morocco eat this every Friday
and no other day. Its usually has
vegetables, chickpeas, chicken or some other type of meat. There is broth on the side to pour on the
couscous to make it more delicious. I once ate couscous three times in one day. I thought I was going to explode like a bird that ate rice.
This is chicken cooked in a tagine with collie
flower. There is cumin, turmeric,
saffron, garlic, ginger, and paprika in it.
This is my favorite dish my mom made for dinner. It also would turn my fingers yellow after eating it (because we eat with our hands).
This is Hararra soup.
It’s tomato based and has a bunch of other stuff in it that makes it
delicious (we do not eat this with our hands).
This is my favorite breakfast or snack. It is a Moroccan pancake with cheese spread
on top. I could eat 5 of these in one
sitting.
This was one of my favorite places to go on the
weekend for lunch. Crepe and wine. So very happy to have wine. It’s hard to find here and freaking
expensive.
This is street food.
There is food in this bread pocket and I eat it hoping it’s not mystery meat and that I don't sick.
This was the out-and-about snack of choice for volunteer travelers in Morocco. Avocado juice (but it’s more like a milkshake) and Milka candy bar. This was my equivalent of Happy Hour.
Spices! So many spices! There is cumin, turmeric, ginger, paprika,
harissa, peppercorn, saffron, and garlic.
Well, there is more then that but this is all I remember/bought.
Nuts, dates, and prunes!
Hot food. (I
would make a terrible food writer)
Meat. They
sell it in big form here. The butcher
saw me staring with my eyes bugged out and laughed.
Mac and Cheese.
They don’t have it here so I made it for my family. They said they thought it was “nice” but
could read their faces and they thought, “my god this is bland”.
Obviously all this has made you hungry so here are the
websites I’d check out for some of my favorite Moroccan dishes.
White bean: http://www.fivespotgreenliving.com/moroccan-food-quick-white-beans-with-tomatoes-and-turmeric-loubia/
Square bread: http://www.joyofkosher.com/recipes/mufleta/
Spice blend: http://www.freshbitesdaily.com/ras-el-hanout/
Favorite pancakes: http://moroccancuisinemarocaine.blogspot.co.uk/p/allrecipes.html
Butternut soup: http://www.halfbakedharvest.com/moroccan-butternut-squash-goat-cheese-soup-wcoconut-ginger-cream-pistachios/
Bonus picture!
They have mayonnaise in Morocco!
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