mardi 11 mai 2010

The days of SHAKSHOUKA




AYAM EL SHAKSHOUKA
The days of SHAKSHOUKA 
That lovely name was one I hated. You will say “what a difficult person to please”.
That was my mom’s opinion too!
What was a shakshouka? First and above all you prepared the spiciest tomato sauce possible.
Not just a drop but a pan full of it. It was so spicy.
you could light a cigarette with it or fly off in a rocket! 
When it was ready and boiling, you broke fresh eggs in it one after the other.
Immediately the eggs consolidated except the centre, which remained soft.
The usual roz be senebar (rice with kernels) was prepared because shakshouka without rice was not shakshouka.
Each person helped himself to rice and added an egg with its very spicy sauce. Mmmm.
What a delight!
But not for yours truly.
When finally to please my mom I did eat shakshouka, my lips were chapped, torn and hurt by that sauce not to talk of the egg that had become red in the process!!!
Was I really too difficult to please?
Considering things today: yes I think I was difficult to please! 

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