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Idrissi Mohammde is my father. He is 60 years old. He was born in Fez and grew up there. When he married my mother he was 24 years old. After a few years they moved to Holland. He’s both a traditional and a modern man, but he thinks that life has changed a lot. When he was in Holland he used to work as a Chef. Hu used to make international food but his favorite dish was Moroccan.

My father used to work in a famous restaurant in Holland. One day he received an invitation from a TV show to show them how to make a Moroccan recipe. He went and demonstrated his favorite dish on TV. It was so delicious and all the people tried it. After a week, a supermarket in Amsterdam was selling magazines with my father and his recipe in them and from then on they started to call him Mr. Prune.

The Meat With Black Prunes
Ingredients:
2 kg of beef
3 onions
a bundle of parsley and a bundle of coriander
2 scrubbed garlic
tsp of ginger, saffron, salt, and pepper
1 kg of prunes
100 g sesames
honey
cinnamon

First wash all the meat, coriander, parsley and onion. Next put the meat in a pressure cooker, cut the onion on it and add the coriander and parsley to the meat. After that add two scrubbed garlic with a pinch of saffron, ginger, pepper, salt, and close the pressure cooker, put it on the fire and wait for 25 -30 minutes.

Put the prunes in a pot of water and let simmer for 15 minutes.

After the 30 minutes, the meat is half cooked so take the prunes and add them to the meat. Then add the honey, cinnamon, and close the pressure cooker for another 15 minutes. Finally put all the meat and prunes on a dish, add the sesame seeds to decorate it and enjoy.