Dinner and Dessert 005: Morrocan Special

I've lined up a Morrocan special Dinner and Dessert for today!

Following my recent adventures to Morroco, and the food and drink I spent the majority of my time consuming, I thought it would be good to enlighten you on some of the cuisine you're likely to find in this part of the world.

First up is Morrocan Chicken set over apricot and cranberry cous cous. Cous cous is a basic staple than comes with everything, but pairing it with a apricots and cranberries really sets off the flavours and spices unique to Morrocan culinary. The list of herbs and spices makes it a bit too long for me to attempt doing myself, but this sort of thing went down a treat when I tried it!

And for desert is a traditional Morrocan desert, serpent cake. Or as it's really called M'hanncha. I'm sure you don't need telling why it's called serpent cake, but the basic premise is a sort of filo pastry based cake, set off with some nuts, rose water and orange and lemon zest.

I didn't actually get to try this whilst in Morroco, but damn I wish I had!

Have you ever tried any Morrocan food?

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Some more amazing looking recipes for you!

The idea of putting peach on a pizza seems weird, but looks absolutely delicious, and I think would work in the same way pineapple would, but the combination of brie and french bread is enough to get my attention! Nom.

White chocolate and raspberries must be a combination put together by the lord himself.

And strawberry margaritas? I'm in!

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Slight change to Dinner & Desert this week. We now have drinks too!

The Lavender Lemonade is strictly alcohol free, but there's nothing to stop you from adding a splash of whatever you see fit to spice it up a bit!

Preceding that we have a rather delicious looking Thai Chicken Salad, and a very seasonal Strawberry Cake.

All found via tastespotting as usual.

Have any recipes been catching you eye this week?

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Confession; I'm a bit of a foodie.

Show me a menu full of fine foods and I'm in my element.

So when I discovered tastespotting.com, an aggregation of lots of fabulous looking recipes and food photography, I was inspired to start a new regular post, "Dinner & Dessert"

The web site is full to the brim of delicious salads, sandwiches, muffinsm cakes, desserts and anything you would ever wish to find, and it all looks exquisite!

So here are two recipes from the web site which caught my fancy this week:

I don't really cook myself, but if I'd definitely give one of these a go!

What have you been cooking this week?