Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Jim's Bachelor's Party Dinner

We took Jim out for a Bachelor's party dinner at Dar Mahgreb in Hollywood.

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Nico explaining the menu and how the meals are served and eaten.

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Introductions

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There were drinks...

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and more drinks...

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We learned that Morocco is not known in the "beer" world for a reason.

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So, 7/7s, gin and tonic, rum and coke... well, anything but that beer!

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An indication on how messy this meal could get was the "Costco"-sized TOWELS they gave us for napkins!

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I told Sergio to take the picture since he had a better angle. I didn't tell him to include me in it!

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So they got there on time. We were a half hour late. How many drinks did they have before we got there?

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The meal was communal. This was the first course and I mean WAS! We were so hungry that I kept forgetting to take a "before" picture. The first course was Harira, the traditional lentil soup and 3 types of marinated salads of eggplant, tomato and carrot.

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and bread and more drinks...

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The second course was B'stilla, a flaky chicken pie with almonds. Again I forgot to take a before picture.

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and then more drinks...

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It took a while to get used to eating with our hands and no utensils. The pie was a little on the hot side.

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I finally got a picture of the third course before we "tore"into it! This was a roasted lemon chicken...good!

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The fourth course was Lahm Mrovzia. Broasted honey lamb with prunes. I think that was the best dish. By then I was already pretty full!

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but we gave it a good try!

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but the lamb won! We didn't even make a respectable dent on it. We needed the stomach of "Tasty Pants" to finish it off.

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We just couldn't finish it off.

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The party behind us taking pictures with the belly dancer will have this in the background of every shot... hahahaha!!!

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She asked if this was "guys night out."

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When we told her Jim was getting married... she made him dance... he tried...

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Ok, nevermind...

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The fifth course was couscous with steamed vegetables and a very spicy sauce in those bowls.

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The sixth and sevent courses were assorted fruits and nuts, green tea with mint and Moroccan cookies.

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No one wanted to be the one who took the last cookie.

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This was a huge meal! I think Jim was doing what all of us were thinking...

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