Sweet Tagines

According to Claudia Roden (in The New Book of Middle Eastern Cuisine), sweet tagines -- that is, tagines of meat made with fruit --are "celebratory dishes cooked for happy occasions."

I didn't read this before I started making Mishmishiya (a tagine of lamb with dried apricots), and I must say that I'm not feeling terribly celebratory these days.

But perhaps the tagine will put me in a better frame of mind.