Pickles don’t have to take days or weeks to make at home.  With the right pickling liquid recipe and thinly sliced vegetables you can make what chefs refer to as a “quick pickle.” Quick pickles develop a lot of flavor in just hours, and get even better as time goes by.  Below you’ll find our …

  Great DIY Foodie Gift Idea! Preserving lemons is a pickling technique where lemons or other citrus fruit are packed in salt and citrus juices.  Preserved lemons are often used in North African food, particularly Moroccan food, as a savory ingredient.  They are prized for their intense zest but also work very well pureed into vinaigrettes (how …

Galya of Eat Love & Train shares the below recipe with us.  Ever health conscious, she’s used intensely flavorful ingredients to get maximum satisfaction from these little goodies while including the least amount of sugar (and guilt). —— A couple of months ago, Marx Foods asked their fan bloggers to choose three ingredients and cook something with …

Brining is an easy technique that gives you a more moist finished dish while also imparting additional flavor.  It’s a particularly good idea when working with pork, lean game meats like wild boar, and poultry. How to Brine: 1.  Mix up a brining solution (see below for ratios).  Boil it to a boil. 2.  Cool the solution to at …

Frying potato chips at home is surprisingly easy, and fresh potato chips are much more delicious than store bought.  That said, you don’t have to just fry potatoes.  Lotus root chips have a slightly creamy, slightly sweet flavor, look gorgeous, and crisp up even better because of their holes.  Taro root also makes great chips, …

Sharon Clark, mother of Marx Foods food photographer extraordinaire, Ryan Clark, shares her recipe for pickled salmon. It is tasty. Mmmm … mmm … mmm. Thanks, Sharon!   Homemade Pickled Salmon Recipe The below recipe can be adapted for any quantity of salmon.  I used three whole salmon fillets. Curing the Salmon: 1. Fillet and …

Ingredients 1 4-5 lb. fresh whole fish, cleaned and scaled, such as rainbow trout, striped bass or small salmon. 4 lbs. Kosher salt 2 egg whites 2 large sprigs fresh lemon thyme or regular thyme 1 lemon Technique: • preheat oven to 475 degrees Fº • rinse and pat dry your fish • insert thyme and …

The Foodie Blogroll and Marx Foods teamed up and sent a sample of Dulse Seaweed, Fennel Pollen, Bourbon Vanilla Beans, Maple Sugar, Dried Porcini Mushrooms, Tellicherry Peppercorns, Smoked Salt and Aji Panca Chilies to each of the 25 Iron Foodie Challengers.  Each blogger’s task was to create an original recipe incorporating at least 3 of the …