Tuesday, September 6, 2011

A Taste of Morocco

"He has ridden an elephant?" I asked, popping my eyes in amazement at the pictures recorded on pure black pages of the album.

Pictures colored in a North African bazaar, elephant and camel rides were tents in the Sahara desert and cooking on the fire are just some of the amazing images that captured my imagination took. The album chronicles several years of adventure was far from my father's second wife.

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As a part of my junior and senior yearsHigh School, was my father to Joyce, a jet setter Windjammer Barefoot Cruise married a met.

As the school in this interlude of time, I would be greeted by a sporadic mZlange rich, interesting and unusual flavors.

On these occasions, my father would be alive redheaded woman in the kitchen with a fresh, perfectly in her apron tied at the waist smaller, moves effortlessly to the rhythm of foreign texts, which are drifting in from the living roomStereo, and has attracted a dish perfumed or chopped ingredients on a butcher block next to the sink.

"What's Cooking?" I would like to ask you.

They had to respond with something that sounded strange and exotic, as "Bisteeya. It 'a very special cuisine Moroccan. I thought you and your dad would have liked."

"Can I help you?" I ask you to give us an opportunity to learn to cook something interesting and unusual.

"Come and see what I bought today," he said, grabbing my hand andled me to the last treasures he had collected that day. On this day, it was concept design table, fashion and costume jewelry with a touch of Morocco.

Joyce was the prototype for the same lifestyle "shop till you drop". To say it was a shopaholic, would be an understatement. But they had refined taste of a lover and I always remember with fashion boutiques will take place during their daily trips around the Chicago area. My father was so happy with his joy in the principle thatclearly not in the sense that they went shopping every day that they were married.

Life at home was a bold eyeful when my father and Joyce were in town. That evening we were in for a taste of Morocco.

A Moroccan dinner is great fun. But do not go to an expensive boutique and spend lots of money or walk through the Kasbah to find inspiration. Be creative! You can just know everything. Scarves and other fashionAccessories for your boudoir can do double duty as decorations for this fun party theme.

As owner of Florida Home ~ Moroccan food writer, Kathi Dameron

The cuisine of Morocco is one of the most varied cuisines in the world. It is based on a mix of Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, Africa, Berber and Moorish inspired menus heard traditional dishes of Morocco, with that you can enjoy the game a lot. Here are some ideas to get started. But fear not, you start with yourcreative interpretations. Your guests will love this party!

1 Use a low table and arrange colorful cushions to sit on the floor. No colored pillows? Only a couple of scarves or squares of fabric tie on cushions.

2 Dress the table with a festive cloth or brocade scarves fashionable and colorful dishes. Make a bouquet of fresh flowers runners. Add small votive. Trim with some beads, ribbons or pins vintage.

3 On a nearby table, creating an edible centerpiece, perhapsseafood or fruit kebabs skewered on a pineapple or melon. Add an elegant collection of golden food you serve is - hummus with pita bread wedges, exotic spices, goat cheese and pistachio bags, mixed salad with pepper and sprinkle some 'of dried fruit with raspberry-champagne vinaigrette, couscous with vegetables grills, small wedges or a lamb bisteeya Tangines bite-size diamonds of almonds and honey baklava pear, orange and coconut macaroons, raspberry-streusel bars figfresh fruit - and do not forget beer, many the epitome of a drink Moroccan mint tea. Place candles around the room.

4 Provide your guests with a thick covering, color-coordinated bathroom, they make their rounds.

5 Scent of a silver pitcher of warm water with a drop or two of fine essential oils, aromatic. Treat your guests to Moroccan tradition to pay a bit 'of water on the fingers of each guest, the beginning and end of the signal meal.

6 Play Moroccan music inin the background.

7 Viewing the film "Casablanca" for more inspiration.

(C) 2007 Kathi Dameron, Kathi Dameron and Associates

This column "Entertaining with Kathi" was originally the 10th 2007 in the North East of the Chronicle newspaper in May in Tallahassee, Florida published.

A Taste of Morocco

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