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| Alan Jamie Ramsey Dark! |
Yes today goes down in history as the day Alan attended a cooking class and actually made edible zaahlouk! That's eggplant pate to you and me, also known as Moroccan caviar.
As well as the Darkies, there were a lovely Mum and daughter from Liverpool (England) and another cooking virgin, a young guy from Salt Lake City, who was as clueless as Alan! First we went shopping for all the ingredients, which took about 2 hours, wondering around the various souks, including the very interesting spice market. The menu was assorted cooked salads, including the now famous zaahlook, sardines baked in the local communal oven with a chermoula stuffing (lots of herbs and spices) then followed by a veggie couscous and egg and meatball tagine, with almond and cinnamon biscuits to follow. We finished the day by eating our efforts and wandered off at about 4 pm.
We were pretty tired as we had a full day shopping yesterday. This bargaining lark is very exhausting, not to mention time consuming. Alan is so much better at it than I am, I lose interest and give up and walk out with desperate vendors running down the street after me! Alan enjoys the game, so much so that one of the stall holders asked him if he was Berber!
Tomorrow we are up early for a trip into the Atlas mountains and a 4X4 journey to a Berber village and the local market day which will be very interesting. We are also going to the foot of the Sahara to the main Film studio on Morocco. so that should be another fun day!
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Recently the Institute of Oh Dear It Must Be So Hard Living On A Boat And Not Doing Anything For Seven Years, undertook a survey to find out what people thought Dee and Alan should do next.
They interviewed 10 people. 9 people thought that Dee & Alan should GET A JOB!
The 10th Person (a D Dark of no fixed abode) didn't know what a job was.
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