Food. An important part of this nutritious breakfast!

Monkey business aside, much of my mental energy has gone into food recently. Thinking about it, buying it, eating it, eating more of it...it would be a shame for me to not spend a bit of time causing you all to salivate as much as I have recently.

THEREFORE! It is only appropriate that I go over the mythologically-proportioned variety of deliciousness that lives here. Prepare your bibs - it is drool time. 

1. Tajine - previously featured, but so yummy it deserves a second nod - named after the clay pan-thing it's cooked in, tajine (or tagine) is essentially a sort of stew. It's actually rather hard to describe because it describes any number of things made in this pan (think Moroccan casserole)

2. Khobz - a thick, Moroccan bread that is pretty crumbly, but can be bought anywhere and is super-filling.

3. Sweet tea - seriously. Sa-weet. The Moroccans love, love, love sugar in their tea. It took me ages to figure out that their "special" tea was just regular green tea with mint and about 4 sugar cubes.

4. Couscous - the food so nice they named it twice - yum yummy yum yum yay yum. Most often served with chickpeas and roasted veg, comme ça:

5. Msemen - a layerey, doughy, oiley, stretchy, delicious pancake creation made of dreams and goey goodness. Serve it hot and filled with goats cheese and holy macaroni I'll take twelve million.

6. Spices and figs and dates and wow - so, not really exclusively Moroccan, but wowie wow wow wowie wow. Ruff. There are streets lined with vendors, and the impulse to buy and eat everything is almost unavoidable.

7. Pastries - speaking of impulsively buying and eating everything...have I mentioned the cheap pastries yet? Pastries that cost, oh, 1 dirham each? That are delicious and fresh and hot from the oven with an unmistakably French amount of butter and flakey layers?

The struggle is real.

8. Mille-feuille - yes, it is a pastry, and no, I don't care. It gets its own entry. My blog, my stomach, my rules! Translated to a million leaves, it is crisp flakes of pastry between layers of custard, with a sweet chocolatey frosted top. Despite being only 2 dirham each, I'm at high risk of bankruptcy because of these tiny delicious demons.

Ugh. Stupid. I hate you, mille-feuille. You're so stupid and perfect and delicious and perfect.