…by Friday, May 16 for a chance to win
2 lbs. of fresh Morel Mushrooms

With fresh morel mushrooms just coming into season, MarxFoods.com was inspired to search for delicious mushroom recipes. Please submit your favorite recipe below by Friday, May 16, 2008. The recipe can incorporate any variety of wild, fresh or dried mushrooms. The creator of the winning recipe will receive two pounds of fresh, wild morel mushrooms.

This contest is not limited to morels, we’re open to recipes for all types of mushrooms—from the most simple ideas to complicated epicurean creations. Just remember, sometimes with fresh seasonal items, they should be the star of a dish and not overshadowed with other flavors.

The winning recipe will be judged by the Marx Foods staff on deliciousness and originality.

To Enter.
Submit your mushroom recipe to our blog below.

Information about Morel Mushrooms

Contest Rules & Regulations

Submit your recipe here!

MarxFoods.com is a new service. Until November, you could only buy from us if you were a high-end restaurant. With over 5,000 extremely-hard-to-find items, I knew that we would be giving home chefs access to a whole new stable of products.

In terms of which products our new home chef customers would buy, I had only guesses (which were wrong) and hopes (which are yet unfulfilled).

I just thought I’d share with you, dear readers, what our customers are busy snapping up. We’ve sold a little bit from almost every category, but here’s our most popular product categories over the last six months in no particular order:

Turtle Meat, Alligator Meat & Frog Legs*
Camelina Oil & Camelina Seeds**
Palm Leaf Plates
Frozen Huckleberries
Kobe Burgers
Pheasant
Truffle & Truffle Products

*Let’s just say that I’m bewildered…we must be the only webstore in the US that sells this stuff. I have no other explanation, other than that there might be some silent food movement toward eating amphibians and reptiles.

**I think it is just the beginning. This is the next most-popular-salad-oil-you’ve-never-heard-of. It is fantastic, healthy, and you can’t get it anywhere else.

If anyone has some insight as to why people aren’t buying the more traditional items in greater quantities…please let me know.

April 29, 2008

It wasn’t until I started working for Marx Foods and reading multiple food blogs that I realized that there are several obscure holidays – some are actually declared national days. Some really bizarre ones include:

• January 12: Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Day (sounds delicious)
• June 23: Take Your Dog to Work Day (or work where you can take your dog every day, as I do)
• October 2: Name Your Car Day (glad I’m not the only one who does that)

I love any reason to celebrate or make a day a little extra special, so I’m really excited about this discovery. I’m a big fan of silly things like Taco Tuesday, because then I have a good excuse to have fish tacos and beer for dinner on Tuesday nights. But this new found knowledge will really help me add some variety to my food “holidays.”

To those of you out there who also have a soft spot for turning an ordinary Tuesday into an extraordinary furlough, please listen up. I have found the Mother of all unappreciated national food holidays. It is by far the most awesome holiday that I never heard of. It is…. National Shrimp Scampi Day!!!

I love, love, love shrimp, prawns, or spotties (as Justin calls them) and cook them all the time, but I’ve never actually made shrimp scampi, so I’ve got some cookin’ to do.

I’m going to browse through my cookbooks and online because now I obviously have to make shrimp scampi for dinner next Tuesday (or shrimp scampi tacos). I think in honor of the day, I’ll wear pink, and possibly bring to work the shrimp-shaped oven mitts that I received from my distant cousin, twice removed.

If anyone has favorite shrimp scampi recipes, please post them here.