Sunday, June 12, 2011

Vegetable tagine


This picture isn't so clear, but this is what I've been eating usually twice a day, with the occasional couscous meal thrown in here and there. Tagines are basically Moroccan stews of potatoes, carrots, green beans, peas, and squash, usually with meat or chicken, often flavored with lemons and olives. The food is piled onto a round clay dish, covered with a clay cone that looks like a trumpet mute, and cooked till everything is nice and soft and bubbling hot. Every meal I've had here has also been served with a basket of delicious fresh white bread baked in round, flat loaves. There are orange trees everywhere in Morocco (even one ten feet away from me in the courtyard of my riad as I write this), so freshly squeezed juice is nearly always offered at meals as well. If dessert is served, I've only ever seen melon and oranges, not pastries. Tragically, I haven't found any baklava in Morocco, but I'm managing despite the hardship. :)

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