Mimouna

Last night, I celebrated my first Mimouna. Mimouna is a Moroccan-Jewish festival which is said to commemorate the yarzheit of Maimon, the father of the 12th century rabbi and philosopher Rambam (Maimonides). As it falls on the day after Pesach, it also provides a wonderful opportunity to appreciate eating chametz again!

We marked the end of Pesach with havdalah, and then, to the rhythm of Sephardi music, a little production line formed around the kitchen - people chopping vegetables, spicing couscous, mixing dough and frying mufleta which are yeasted pancakes, traditional at Mimouna. A Middle-East flavoured evening to usher out Pesach for another year.