These healthy lettuce wraps are brought to you by my friends at Superior Farms. Thank you as always for supporting the companies that make this site (and my lamb cravings) possible.
My first trip to Morocco was both a transformative and traumatic experience.
If you’ve read The Wellness Project book and made it to the Eater’s Digest chapter you’ll know about the bad part. But today let’s focus on the transformative.
The trip was my college graduation gift from my mother, who had spent a good chunk of her twenties living in Morocco.
It had been over a decade since she’d been back to visit friends, and as my generous reward for making it through four years of poli-sci essays and beer pong, she took me along for two weeks of gorging on cumin-scented lamb, hiking through the Atlas Mountains, and haggling for ethnic furnishings for my first New York City apartment.
While the embroidered floor pillows have stuck with me through three moves, and the photo of me riding a donkey down a particularly harrowing stretch of mountain remains one of my favorites, there’s probably no memory that’s stuck with me more than the food…. Continue Reading about Moroccan Lamb Lettuce Wraps with Ras El Hanout and Lemon-Mint Aioli
