So I will be going photo crazy over the next couple of weeks (especially this weekend at Marrakech) due my deprivation over the past three weeks due to me being highly intelligent and misplacing my original memory card the first week I arrived. The picture in the very beginning of this post is from Rabat (which is right along the Atlantic coast)...it is part of the Casbah, which is an ancient fortification and engulfs the Odaiyas (forgive the misspelling) neighborhood I mentioned yesterday. You will see plenty of photos from inside the Casbah eventually. It's a nice look at how Morocco blends its ancient history with modern life.
My host mother thought it was odd that I snapped pictures of the Riifa and tea today, and in my broken Arabic I explained to her the concept of a blog and tried to express the fact that people don't have any idea what riifa is! Anyway, photo number one is my host mother cooking it...and I cooked some too but mine didn't turn out as pretty, but it worked. The other photos is just a picture of the actual outcome of riifa. I am making tacos tomorrow and I am thinking about using that for the tortilla because it's closer than the chawarma pita-style bread that they use in the fake taco joints around town. Anyway, my dear friends, you will probably get a taste of that when I make you all a myriad of Moroccan dishes when I return...and you'll probably like them (assuming I learn how to cook well enough...).Anyway, that is all for now, I'm freezing so I am going to curl up on the faraj (couch bed) and finish reading about Moorish Spain. I miss all of you a ton...except maybe Andrea and Abby because they smell kinda funky. ;-)
i see no pictures!
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