It always seems to end with a little shisha... And a lot of wine.
Author: zora
KC interior
Wait, other people eat at this place too? That's Karine in the foreground.
Kabab Cafe, for old time’s sake
Purslane redux
Eid in Morocco
Adriana took this at the Eid party. She says she has more involving organ meats, but this is totally adorable. Look how psyched they are. (Is that a tampon machine on the wall behind the fridge?)
Live Tagine Report: Booyakasha!
Well, that kicked ass, my pretties. It was tender enough to eat at 10:30--what was that, an hour, maybe more? Could've cooked a little longer, but would've required more liquid, as the sauce was getting a little nonexistent.
Live Tagine Report: Phase 2
Added half a can of Goya chickpeas. Why not the whole can? I'm afraid I put them in too early, and they'll get all mushy. And the last time I used the tajine (the only time), the liquid really got all absorbed more, and more quickly than I thought.
Live tagine report
Hold on to your seats. I just put that Moroccan-French (it's Le Creuset) bad boy on the stove, and rather than reading more Ali G jokes and ruining my diction, I will now proceed to list the sketchy non-fresh things I put in my tajine, in a desperate bid for supper:
I was a teenage vegetarian
Replying to a comment of K8's comment re: Eid below, I realized I've been harboring a horrible, horrible secret: For several years, I did not eat meat.
Iraqi Recipes
Here's an Iraqi woman posting basic recipes. Scroll down to the post about sumac. Hilarious...if it weren't for the thought that there really is some paranoid idiot out there who thinks that and will write a crazy email about it without doing any real research. Sigh.