Our First Ftour!

As many of you know it's Ramadan here in Morocco. Ramadan is the time of year when the Muslims fast from sun-up to sundown. At the end of the day when the prayer call sounds it's time for ftour. (which I really think I'm spelling wrong, but I'm not sure of the correct spelling) It's the first meal that they eat to break the fast and then sometime around 10:30 or so they have another big meal, and then they sleep a little but wake up really early before morning prayer call to eat breakfast. So they are still getting their three meals in just between about 6 at night and 5 in the morning! Yesterday our friend Manal celebrated her 25th birthday and since she was fasting all day because of Ramadan we decided to have a birthday ftour for her. You traditionally break the fast with dates and milk, we also added some really good pancake like things that had spicy meat and olives in them, and a good old american apple torte just for fun. After we munched on those for a while we had Harira which is a tomato based soup that is another traditional food to break the fast. It was so yummy!
We had another meal planned but we just
decided to skip it because we were all full from
the ftour! However the birthday cheesecake
was another matter, once again proving the saying,
there is always a little square for dessert. :)