Fruit and vegetables in Morocco are seasonal. They suddenly appear and you seize on them as a change . Then there is a glut and they become everyday and then they disappear until next year. Seasonal fruit in particular is sold not in the shops and market stalls but from the handcarts the best of which seem to be found outside the mosque around noon prayers. When we were here in November it was pomegranates which were in season which I'm not particularly fond of but at the moment it is advocados and strawberries :) !
They are not the small sweet english strawberries but more like the larger spanish varieties. However unlike the spanish strawberries sold in Tesco in the winter or those we had at Huelva when we visited in the strawberry season they are not disappointingly turnipy but sweet and ripe.
Sadly Morocco is not big on dairy products and even Marjane could not supply suitable cream, so I am having to make do with icecream. Life can be very hard.
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| A handcart of strawberries and avocados at Taroudant Sunday market 13.2.11. |
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