Cheese Cake

Dough ½ cup sugar 1 tsp vanilla essence 1 small egg ¾ cup plain flour 50g butter Filling ½ kg Tempo full fat slicing cottage cheese ½ kg Tempo quark 2 heaped tbsp Self Raising Flour 4 large or 5 small eggs 1 cup sugar 1 tsp vanilla essence 75g melted butter Make the...

Date Cake

It has been far too long between posts.  Now that I am well settled in my new home and have retired permanently from my teaching, I have decided to post a recipe a month on this site as well as anything else I find topical. The month of Ramadan started a few days ago...

Argan Oil

Much has been written about Southern Morocco’s unique product – argan oil – which has become much sought after world wide for culinary and, more widely, cosmetic purposes. Native to Morocco, the ancient argan tree (argania spinosa) grows essentially...

Moroccan Mint Tea

In a couple of weeks, I’ll be heading off to Morocco again to lead another of my culinary tours. One of the highlights of the time spend travelling around the Kingdom of Morocco is the drinking of tea infused with different kinds of mint and other aromatic herbs...