Food memories from Morocco

First meal at Restaurant Marrakech
in Fez

Cafe Clock in the medina in Fez.
Typical salads served before
a meal.

We have just returned from 2 amazing weeks in Morocco and had the good fortune to travel to many beautiful places. I have already written about the details of our trip on our travel blog at: http://mexicotravel-susan-ricardo.blogspot.com and now am going to show mostly with pictures some of the food adventures. Morocco is a land of smells and tastes as well as color and sounds - a feast for all the senses. Eating plant based was not the common way of the day as most restaurants served meat of many forms but as I follow my intention, I was easily able to eat everyday and many memorable meals for sure. Since I do not eat wheat products the breakfasts were sometimes scarce but there was usually fruit including dates or figs and various jams and spreads that were enjoyed by Richard. I always have a little stash of nuts and fruit for these moments when the options are not suitable.

Breakfast in Chefchauen - pea soup
and apples. One of my favorite breakfasts

Here are how dates grow.

We often ate our big meal in the late afternoon and then ate some snacks for dinner which was the very local products of figs, apples, dates, almonds and of course, olives - all grown locally. We even managed to pick dates right off the trees as we walked through the oases.

Olive stand in the medina.

Lunch in Ouarzazate

Tagine dish

Tagine in Meknes

Tagines are the main food of Morocco and we were able to get vegan tagines in every restaurant that we went to. On Fridays the tradition is for families to gather for giant bowls of couscous with either meat or vegetables and so often restaurants will provide couscous on Fridays. We enjoyed several meals of vegetarian couscous, one served with figs and one with dates.

Cafe Sofia in Chefchauen
Soup, tagine and aubergine (eggplant)

Moroccan salad served to us
in a Berber cave in the desert

Last days in Marrakech at
Ayaso Concept Store
Lentils, avocado spread, soup and salad

Sitting in a Berber tent in the middle
of the Sahara desert drinking
mint tea

We would recommend this country to anyone who wishes to learn of another culture. The people are so very kind and friendly and always try to please. The custom no matter where we went when arriving anywhere - shop, hotel or restaurant is to sit down and enjoy a cup (glass) of mint tea (san o avec sucre). Needless to say, we enjoyed many glasses of tea.