Saturday, April 22, 2006

End of Passover

The Jewish festival of Passover ended a few days ago and we decided to celebrate the last night Moroccan style by borrowing from the festival of Mimouna. Mimouna is a folk-holiday celebrated by Sephardic Jews particularly from Morocco and we felt that it would help us move from the celebration of Passover back into the regular week day.

One of the Mimouna traditions is the baking of mofleta. Mofleta is made from flour and water and rolled very thin so that they almost look like crepes. They are then fried and eaten with sweet toppings like honey and butter. Since the only flour products we had eaten for the past week were matzah crackers, this was quite the treat. We used this recipe and they looked something like the ones being made by the woman in this picture.

As an added step in the right direction, we also baked a challah load for Shabbat this week to really get back in the swing of eating bread.

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