No-Lemon Moroccan Chicken (a Maroque recipe) Easy to Cook a Delight to Eat

This originated from an observation that all Moroccan chicken dishes seem to contain lemon and tend to have very storng sweet spice tastes, unusual to the western palate. This is a dumbed down version of the famous Moroccan Chicken recipe. Great to use as an introduction to a new style of cooking.

1 tbsp of olive oil
2 chicken breasts chopped into bite-sized bits
1 large onion chopped
2 garlic cloves chopped
1 red pepper diced
a large pinch of saffron strands
a large shake of cumin seeds
1 tsp of ground coriander
1/2 tsp of chilli powder
1 pint of chicken stock
salt and a generous amount of black pepper

1. Add the oil to a large saucepan or deep-sided frying pan and fry the onions and garlic until brown. Set aside.

2. Fry off the chicken until coloured, return the onions and garlic to the pan.

3. Add saffron, cumin seeds, coriander, chilli, salt and pepper, and stir well to coat everything.

4. Add the chicken stock and bring to the boil. Reduce to a strong simmer and cook for 30 minutes, or until you have a nice consistency to the sauce. Serve with rice.

Serves 2, easily doubled

reprinted from www.maroque.co.uk republished by Recipe JackC

More About Moroccan Food and History

Moroccan cuisine has long been considered as one of the most diversified cuisines in the world. The reason is because of the interaction of Morocco with the outside world for centuries. The cuisine of Morocco is a mix of Arab, Berber, Moorish, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean African and Jewish influences. The cooks in the royal kitchens of Fez, Meknes, Marrakech, Rabat and Tetouan refined Moroccan cuisine over the centuries and created the basis for what is known as Moroccan cuisine today.

The most popular drink is green tea with mint. Traditionally, making good mint tea in Morocco is considered an art form and the drinking of it with friends and family members is one of the important rituals of the day.

Morocco Travel

For Westerners, Morocco holds an immediate and enduring fascination. Though just an hour's ride on the ferry from Spain, it seems at once very far from Europe, with a culture - Islamic and deeply traditional - that is almost wholly unfamiliar. Throughout the country, despite the years of French and Spanish colonial rule and the presence of modern and cosmopolitan cities like Rabat and Casablanca, a more distant past constantly makes its presence felt. Fes , perhaps the most beautiful of all Arab cities, maintains a life still rooted in medieval times, when a Moroccan empire stretched from Senegal to northern Spain, while in the mountains of the Atlas and the Rif , it's still possible to draw up tribal maps of the Berber population. As a backdrop to all this, the country's physical make-up is also extraordinary: from a Mediterranean coast, through four maintain ranges, to the empty sand and scrub of the Sahara.

If you've ever taken part in online forum discussions, you will have probably found that discussion threads can often swirl out-of-control.

I recently posted this short poem in the Article Friendly technical support forum, where, I'm proud to be a Moderator ;) http://www.articlefriendly.com/forum/

What's wrong with the world?

A VERY short poem about CSS:

******

CSS Bollixs

There was a time when tables ruled...
But; along came Bushie, and he found it crude.
Time will tell;
CSS is really one step from HELL!
Bushie's not a prude
For sure; he knows
"Jack" is typing this in the "NUDE"

******

Bushie is my Australian "mate" and a "CSS Code Warrior"; we work on a web site development project at: http://www.ineedtoknowabout.info/ it's a Joomla based web and uses inline frames to display our various article directories. Seems to be working OK and the site has started to get popular.

Anyway, it seems my lame attempted at poetry has been taken literally and now people think I actually DO TYPE IN THE NUDE!! I even had a private message asking for my web cam address... strewth, I was trying to get the whole thing to rhyme.

Thinking to have a bit of fun, I researched "nude typeface" and to my astonishment found a wealth of information. It seems people have been using text and letter combinations to send sexy messages for many centuries. Indeed, prior to the Internet Emoticons these old snail mail written and printed Eroticons were all the rage, used by Kings, Queens and even Lord Byron. In the old days a simple combination was used to great effect (|) it seems Victorian's used this to signify a female body part... you'll have to use your imagination.

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Decoupage (or découpage) is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cut outs onto it in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf, etc. Commonly an object like a small box or an item of furniture is covered by cutouts from magazines or from purpose-manufactured papers. Each layer is sealed with varnishes (often multiple coats) until the "stuck on" appearance disappears and the result looks like painting or inlay work.

By the 18th century these creations were not confined to Italy but had spread throughout Europe and were no longer only the occupation of artisans but had also taken on the role of a lady's hobby, notably in the court of King Louis XV. Instead of glueing paper onto furniture, it was used to decorate smaller objects such as hat boxes and toiletries.

In the early part of the 20th century, decoupage, like many other art methods, began experimenting with a less realistic and more abstract style. 20th century artists who produced decoupage works include Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Most famous are Matisse's Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra).

Since decoupage was considered to be a "poor man's art," it isn't surprising that common household materials can be used to create exquisite effects. The list of supplies is short:

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Love is a constellation of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection or profound oneness. The meaning of love varies relative to context. Romantic love is seen as an ineffable feeling of intense attraction shared in passionate or intimate attraction and intimate interpersonal and sexual relationships...

Well, that is what Wikipedia.com thinks about love.

Expressions of love may include the love for a soul or mind, the love of laws and organizations, love for a body, love for nature, love of food, love of money, love for learning, love of power, love of fame, love for the respect of others, etc.

I "love" a good joke!

You know there was an Irishman once who had an English mother and an Irish father. When he was born his mother insisted on calling him Arthur, which of course is a most unIrish name. Consequently he had to go through life with the name of Arthur Mulligan.

Through a great deal of persistence at school, he was finally able to get all his little schoolmates to call him Arty, which at least was a small departure from Arthur. He grew up having a considerable chip on his shoulder about his name and when he left school he joined the Republican Party to prove he was an Irishman and not of English persuasion.

Over time he became somewhat of an adept at bombs, weapons and all the means of waging war on the British, so much so that he was on the English Army's most wanted list. For about five years he managed to elude them whilst waging his war of terror on the British. Eventually however, as a last resort he decided to emigrate to Australia where he believed he would be beyond their reach of the British.

On arriving in Australia, he was without a job and without a trade, in fact without any skills that could earn him any money apart from his experience with weapons and wreaking havoc.

Whilst down the local pub one evening he was talking to a bloke who was saying how he was so sick of his missus that he just wanted to kill her. Now here was an opportunity for Arty because it was an area in which he had vast experience. He asked if the bloke was serious and he replied that he was. Arty offered to do the job for him there and then. The bloke asked how much he would charge for such a task and Arty, after thinking carefully, offered to do the job for one dollar provided the bloke could provide him with a good reference so he could get more jobs of this sort.

The bloke was quite overjoyed with the price and agreed to the one dollar fee and the reference if the job was done properly. He proceeded to advise Arty of the wife's movements. Every Thursday, which was the next day, she went shopping at the local market. Surely Arty would be able to catch her then and bring about her demise. The bloke provided a photo of his wife so Arty would be able to identify her at the market.

The following day Arty went to the supermarket and lay in wait for the wife. Eventually he spotted her and using all his tailing skills, followed her into the supermarket. He carefully selected various items to place in his own basket so she would have no idea she was being followed. There were people all over the place, but when she entered the fruit and vegetable aisle, all was quiet and no-one was around.

With the opportunity available, Arty quickly dropped his basket, rushed over, grabbed her by the throat and began choking her to death.

Unfortunately, he didn't have his grip quite right and she was able to utter an enormous scream which brought people running from everywhere. Arty, diligent to the end, continued to choke the wife, but had to give up as the markets's Assistant Manager was pulling him off.

He then began choking the Assistant Manager when the Market Manager rushed in to pull him off and he started choking the Market Manager. Then customers started into the fray and Arty was going from one to another choking each of them in turn until finally at the tenth choke attempt the police arrived, handcuffed him and dragged him off to jail.

The next morning, the headlines in the paper read "Artichokes Ten For A Dollar"!

NOTE: Arther Mulligan is fictitious... but the Mulligans probably can trace their linage back to when Ireland was ruled by Kings and Queens. One Mulligan in particular will often "choke" on 12 cans of Guiness and a bottle of Bushmills whiskey!! The Artijoke has been adapted from an original joke told by my mate Bushie.

Back to LOVING things!!

Articles and stories submitted to ArticleJackC have a totally different take on "LOVE"

Happy?

Just what does that mean?

How many time have you been asked "are you HAPPY" or satisfied or contented or willing to give a tip?

Maybe I've turned into a grumpy-old-bugger?

I'm happy to wake up without any back pain.

I'm really HAPPY when I win at poker, but a BIG win on the lottery would REALLY make me happy.

[quote Wikipedia.com]

Happiness is an emotional or affective state that is characterized by feelings of enjoyment, pleasure, and satisfaction. As a state and a subject, it has been pursued and commented on extensively throughout world history. This reflects the universal importance that humans place on happiness.

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Positive emotions relating to the past include satisfaction, contentment, pride and serenity. Positive emotions relating to the future include optimism, hope and trust. Positive emotions about the present are divided into two categories which are significantly different: pleasure and gratifications. The bodily and higher pleasures are "pleasures of the moment" and usually involve some external stimulus.

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Well... ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?

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Fishing for Sport or Pleasure

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Fishing: The act, occupation or sport of catching fish. This is the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language description of the term "fishing". To add "recreation" to the list would not be a mistake at all since fishing has become one of the most popular leisure activities recently.

Hunting And Fishing Is A Way Of Life For Some People

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Many people rely on hunting and fishing as a means to supply food for their family's table.

Throw That Fish on the Barbeque

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Fish tastes great fresh off the barbeque. Make a great marinade for a healthy and delicious meal. Summer is a great time to take advantage of your barbeque. But when you want to eat a little healthier, hamburgers, hot dogs and ribs just aren't going to cut it as barbeque fare. It's a good thing that fish can cook quite well on the barbeque too.

Catch it... eat it : This is really good information and well worth a read.

Tea is a beverage made by steeping processed leaves, buds, or twigs of the tea bush, Camellia sinensis, in hot water for a few minutes.

The processing can include oxidation, heating, drying, and the addition of other herbs, flowers, spices, and fruits.

The four basic types of true tea are (in order from most to least processed):

• black tea
• oolong tea
• green tea
• white tea

The possible beneficial health effects of tea consumption have been suggested and supported by some studies, but others have found no beneficial effects. The studies contrast other claims, including antinutritional effects such as preventing absorption of iron and protein, usually attributed to tannin.

White Tea
Due to this early picking the leaves White Tea may contain more natural healing antioxidants as well as a higher caffeine level. It is believed that because there is less processing done to these younger leaves that this tea, more than any other, is the healthiest you can drink. In short, anyone who is looking to incorporate tea into a holistic approach to diet and exercise will find that white tea is an ideal way to go.

The vast majority of studies have been of Green tea, however some studies have been made of the other types of tea derived from Camellia sinensis such as White tea, Oolong tea, and Black tea. Green tea has been claimed to be helpful for atherosclerosis, LDL cholesterol, cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, diabetes, liver disease, weight loss, cognitive impairment, and even halitosis.

Black tea owes much of its popularity, to the fact that it is most widely available as tea bags, and is the tea used to make iced tea. It is also being touted to have much health benefits, since the tea is a host for high antioxidant content. The tea also holds traces of quite a number of trace elements needed by the body. Whiskey can be added to Black Tea to give a distinct flavour and taste.

Two new JackC Articles outline the Black and White Tea processes.