A place to call home
Currently trying to identify what I've already posted to tumblr and what I didn't. This piece was made last year for the "In the streets of Maroc" zine. There's some stuff that irk my eyes now but I still like it overall. And tbh, I'm not sure I paint better now lol. I really love this part :
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Ferrari 250 GT Spider unique, ex-roi du Maroc. - source Steve Battilana.
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Ronald Cecil Sportes, Offices in Marocco, 1983
Scan (Habiter c'est vivre)
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Immeuble rationalisé, années 1930, Marrakech (Gueliz), Maroc. Architecte inconnu (Crédit photos : Pascal PLAZA sur Flickr). - source Sally Jo via Art Deco.
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So I was on the phone with my sisters and my father and I started getting out vegetables and meat to cook dinner and my Baba said "you're not going to make a tajine now?" (it was around 10.30pm). And I said "it's alright, it's not gonna take too long, I'm just throwing everything into the pan and letting it cook". And my Baba went full offended gasping "oh hell no, if you're going to make a tajine you're going to make it right and that takes at least 45 minutes!". So I said "uuuh, tell me again how it's made, because I think I'm missing something?..."
Turns out I've been making my tajines wrong all along, but now I know how to make them right, so I'll share with you.
Moroccan tajine (for 1 person) :
- onion and garlic to taste
- meat to taste (preferably lamb)
- 2 carrots
- 1 courgette (or half if it's a big one)
- 2 potatoes
- spices
To start:
Cut the onion in thin slices and the garlic roughly. Put them in the saucepan with a bit of water, just enough to cover them but not drown them.
Let them simmer for around 15 minutes, until the onion is melted.
In the meantime get the rest of your vegetables ready.
Once you deem the onion sufficiently translucid, add your meat (sorry, I don't know the timing for vegetarian equivalent meat).
At this point, add your spices. I personally put the classics, salt, pepper and cumin (cumin is very important), and then I add paprika, ginger and rosemary.
Let the meat cook for another 15 minutes or so and add the carrots. Carrots take a long time to cook so you add them before the rest.
Wait for another 20-25 minutes, cooking on slow burn and checking regularly the water. You don't want your sauce to evaporate. The water you add if necessary must be heated.
You can add the rest of your vegetables after 20 minutes, when the carrots are already starting to cook well.
And now you let it all cook gently and slowly until the vegetables are ready. Don't eat immediately, it's very hot! A traditional Moroccan tajine is usually cooked in a clay dish like this, so it's dangerously hot.
And that's it! Quite simple in the end, but it does take a hot minute.
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