Recipes by Wendy @ Mint Tea and Tagine
Morocco Chef
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Blue Mondays and Muffins….I had planned a post on the wonderful city of Meknes that we visited last weekend, but in view of the tragic events that happened there on Friday I will save that for another day. The 16th Century minaret of the Bab Berdieyinne mosque in Meknes, collapsed during Friday prayers killing 41 people and injuring many.Another humanitarian… |
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Souks, Saffron and Stuffing……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 floods the previous week or the nip in the air could spoil the… |
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Strawberries and snow……There has been an unlikely combination of events and food in our life over the last week, things that shouldn’t rightly be together but just happened to be….snow and strawberries…Morocco seems to have joined the rest of the Northern Hemisphere in the big chill and this last weekend we had a great time going to see the snow in Ifrane… |
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Comfort Food…..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 down the coast to a gorgeous town called Essaouria, which I will tell you all… |
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Quick and easy Noodles with Pork…..This is one of those quick and easy dishes, perfect for the middle of the week when the time just seems to be rushing by. You can use any vegetables you have that are suitable for a stir fry! You can also subsitute the pork for chicken or beef.Prepare the noodles according to the package instructions, rinse with cold water, drain and… |
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Beetroot Gazpacho….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 Gazpacho a while back and finally got around to… |
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Vegetable Tagine….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 or rice but we had it with… |
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Tomato and Bacon Risotto…or not….Two things I am a huge fan of are…risotto…and magazines! Well you may be wondering what the two possibly have to do with each other. In Morocco we really battle to get English publications, and as gorgeous as the French and Moroccan publications are, my language skills are still sorely lacking and translating page after page takes up… |
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Happy Halloween……Halloween is here, and we are even celebrating it in Morocco!!When we first arrived here we seldom saw decorations for Western holidays such as Halloween, Easter and Christmas, but they seem to be popping up everywhere at the moment and there was quite a good Halloween selection available at a few toy and sweet shops this year. So our… |
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Souks and Sardines….I have really been neglecting this blog of mine over the last few weeks. It just seems a combination of sick children; cold weather and life in general have been getting in the way of all my good intentions of cooking and blogging! Enough excuses though…..I took a trip down to the Rabat Medina yesterday with my youngest and a friend… |
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