HRO Karl Willem and PA/PR Gromit prepare another excellent budget meal.
Tonight we cooked "chicken mechado". Purists will say this is blasphemy, sort of like "beef caldereta". We can't afford beef at the moment so we're using the cheapest cut of chicken, the wings. Chickens don't need wings anyway so you can just pull their wings and keep them alive to lay eggs. There is actually a cheaper cut of chicken, the feet, but they're hard to find here. I guess some Chinese restaurateur buys them in bulk to be sold under some exotic name like "God's footprints on watercress, Szechuan style" for a tidy profit.
Thankfully, I've invested quite a lot on spices so despite the cheap meat, we can still produce a gourmet meal.
HRO Karl Willem and PA/PR Gromit always ensure that the cooking is topnotch.
Et voila! It's all in the presentation you see. We've stretched our miniscule £2 for this meal (equivalent to P60 factoring in inflation and cost of living). To give the illusion that we're in some carinderia, we played Willy Garte's "Bawal na Gamot" in the background and served exactly 2.5 chicken wings. At the end of the meal PA/PR Gromit gave me a bill for 80 pesoses which I payed in pretend money. It made me feel as if I weren't broke. A kasla budget meal idiay Kayang pards.
There are some places where you can eat a feast for the same amount of money. Djema al Fna in Marrakech is one such place. It's one of HRO Karl Willem and PA/PR Gromit's favourite al fresco dining places.
Mustafa hawking some poor animal's head and tangia.
Tangia is slow cooked melt in the mouth saffron-laced lamb goodness. It's basically cooked on an earthen pot in the same oven that actually heats the hammam. Early in the day you can pick your meats, give it to the guy who stokes the fires for the hammam, go inside the hammam later to get your spa/massage treatment and come out to get your dinner.
Another super melt in the mouth goodness is sheep's brain. I'm telling you, learning how to properly eat sheep's brain will make your girlfriend very very happy. I'm ten times better at giving head since. An in the square, don't worry if you don't see what you want to eat initially, just ask and it will magically appear. The stalls operate a system of 'runners' who will get what you like.
After a hearty meal, drink special Marrakech tea made of many herbs and spices, also known as Berber Viagra.