El Bahia

After Mass tonight, my husband and I went looking for dinner, and noticed the El Bahia Moroccan restaurant very close to the church we had just attended.

I started with Harira, a tomato-based soup chic peas,
fresh coriander, and spices.

I also had sardines marinated in spices, lightly fried in olive
oil, and splashed with lemon

entree: Marrakesh tajine
(lamb cooked with fresh vegetables flavored with fresh leaf
parsley, ginger, cumin and saffron)

Cedars of Lebanon

Earlier this year, my husband and I had gone to a wonderful Lebanese/Moroccan restaurant with my parents, who were visiting from out of town over the Easter holidays. My husband and I wanted to go see the Christmas lights that were on display in downtown Salt Lake City at Temple Square, so decided to go back to Cedars of Lebanon, since we'd enjoyed our dinner so much the last time we were there.

We started with the lahm ajeen 

(open-faced flatbread topped with ground lamb & beef, pine nuts, onions, olive oil, & lemon juice):

We also ordered a starter of baba ghanouj, which came with warm pita: 

We shared a lamb tagine and pastilla (lamn in curry and chicken in fillo): 

And of course ordering baklava was necessary.