In pursuit of pomegranates: Eid Mubarak!

Happy Eid everyone! Just a quick blog to tell you all about yesterday. We went to Karim’s house early in the morning, but not too early; thankfully the sheep had already been dealt with before we got there! Technically you should wait until the King kills his sheep, but it looked like most families had a head start. Walking through his neighbourhood, there were a lot of carcasses hanging in doorways, sheep heads cooking on fires in the street, sheepskins piling high and little streams of blood as the scenes of the slaughtering were washed clean.

While I wasn’t there to see our sheep killed, I did make the mistake of watching the TV when the King killed his 2 sheep – one for his family and one for the country. I definitely was not expecting such close-up footage! I think I will change the channel next time!

We spent most of the day at his family’s house with assorted friends and family members popping in throughout the day to wish everyone a happy eid. Lunch was of course the newly slaughtered sheep. Its liver to be exact, cooked on skewers over hot coals. There is a precise order of what parts you should eat when, so every family in Morocco would be eating exactly the same thing at the same time! After lunch it was nap time (similar I guess to the post Christmas lunch nap), and then more tea and patisseries and then home time! Before I left, I had a quick look in the fridge and freezer. Lets just say they won’t need to visit a butcher anytime soon!