more Marrakech food and sights

My last post on Marrakech. But more Morocco to come!

A man was selling mint from giant sack, right on the street.

mint for sale

mint for sale

Fried fish. Mark, our guide, said that it wasn’t worth eating seafood here and that it would be better on the coast. Also, notice the Activia sign. I had no idea that stuff was so far reaching!

fish and yogurt sign

fish and yogurt sign

Lots and lots and lots of colourful tagines for sale.

tagines

tagines

Mutton, anyone?

butcher

butcher

Garlic and spices for sale on the side of the street.

garlic and spices

garlic and spices

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Tetley Tea contest

I love tea. So much so that I have a whole shelf in my kitchen filled with different kinds of tea. Green tea, black teas, flavoured teas, herbal teas… you name it I probably have it or have at least tried it once.

The Tetley Tea company sent me a sample from their new Tetley Colour Therapy herbal tea line to try. Titled “dream,” my sample was chamomile lemon flavoured. The chamomile taste was dominant, while the lemon part was almost non-existent. I have to admit that chamomile isn’t my favourite kind of tea; I actually prefer Tetley’s honey lemon ginseng green tea. Some of the other flavours in the Colour Therapy line look more interesting to me, like the “soothe” (ginger mint) tea.

But don’t take my word on the quality of this tea; Tetley is offering my blog readers a chance to try it yourselves by winning a tea basket of your very own. The winner will receive two containers of tea, a canister/tea pot and 50 mood influencing greeting cards. To enter, simply reply below and tell me what kinds of moods you find yourself in when craving a cup of tea. This contest is only open to addresses within Canada only, excluding Quebec. One entry per person only, make sure to include your e-mail address so that I can contact you if you are the winner. Entries will be accepted until end of day January 19, 2011.

*This contest is now closed. Congratulations, Mary!*

Tetley Tea basket

photo courtesy of Tetley Tea

 

2010 in review

WordPress sent me this lovely summary. :)

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

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A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats.

About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 40,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj Mahal, it would take about 5 days for that many people to see it.

In 2010, there were 75 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 447 posts. There were 2 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 55kb.

The busiest day of the year was November 19th with 256 views. The most popular post that day was Pandan Agar Agar recipe.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were Only Here for the Food, eating is the hard part, Loosen Your Belt and Eat Around Edmonton, A Canadian Foodie, and The Celiac Husband.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for baked portobello mushrooms, agar agar recipe, kabsa, gurney drive hawker centre, and langkawi food blog.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

Pandan Agar Agar recipe June 2010
18 comments and 2 Likes on WordPress.com

2

Baked portobello mushrooms March 2009
3 comments

3

Bellagio Buffet and Wynn Buffet, Las Vegas August 2009
4 comments

4

Kimchi scrambled eggs February 2009
4 comments

5

Langkawi food March 2009
3 comments