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Top Ten List and Recipes for 2012

01/13/2012

The end of the year (or is it the beginning?) always brings out The Lists:

Dubious Achievement Awards, People’s Choice, Top 10 Ways to De-clutter…we have our own list every year.

It’s the “Marczyk list of things we love and hope you do too.”

Marczyk’s on Colfax. Fresh Meat on Denver’s Main Street. All the tasty things you’ve learned to love here on 17^th, and an attached wine shop, Fairfax Wines & Spirits, makes this your one-stop-shopping destination for east of Colorado.

Recipe Roundup: Making 7 dinners a week? Help! Marczyk’s new recipe board, located at the entrance of both stores, featuring 4 recipes a month. Recipe Roundup includes recipes from our files, from local chef’s files, and customer files. (Send us your recipes; win a $10 gift card! See below.) This month: citrus salad , baked salmon with Beurre Blanc, soba noodles with tofu, and more .

Marczyk Smoked Salmon. Smoky, sweet, salty. Add to hot, creamy pasta, slice into a spinach and avocado salad, mix with cream cheese and scallions, serve beside wild rice, make chowder…versatile! $22.99/lb.

Pork shoulder “tied like Jimmy does.” Full pork flavor! Our butchers often experiment with different cuts. This is a roast that looks like a pork tenderloin, but has more flavor for less money. $5.99/lb.

Pedro Steak. Marczyk’s signature steak. Cut from the tri-tip, it’s a flat steak similar to flank steak. Big flavor, small price. $11.99/lb.

Top sirloin with cap meat. Cap meat is a small part of the steak usually removed from the sirloin and ground for burger. We leave this tender, hard-to-find cut attached, like a little bonus steak! $11.99/lb.

The Saveurhttp://www.saveur.com/the-saveur-100-2012/index.jsp" target="_blank"> 100. Their much anticipated favorite things issue.

In the freezer: ah the lowly freezer, when you’re cooking fresh why look there? Here are 3 reasons:

Anson Mill products. “Handmade mill goods from organic heirloom grains.” These are in the category “seems expensive until you taste them”. Stone cut toasted oats, for $9.99/lb., makes the best oatmeal you will ever taste. Serve with buttermilk and brown sugar. When we serve the red Trentino flint polenta ($12.99/lb.) people always ask “what is this?” Basically cornmeal, but the most flavorful cornmeal/grits/polenta in America. One cup of these grains turns into 2 cups prepared, so a one lb. bag goes a long way.

Heirloom pumpkin. Fresh frozen. We took the beautiful Munson Farm squashes and made them into. Raw diced pumpkin ready to be roasted or boiled, and roasted pumpkin puree for soup, risotto, or pie. $5.99/lb. Here’s a http://www.marczykfinefoods.com/blog/index.php/2011/11/03/whit%e2%80%99s-picks-%e2%80%93-10112011/" target="_blank">soup recipe.

Marczyk Apple Pies. Take and bake, impress your friends. The smell of a cinnamony apple pie baking is the cure to the winter blues. Made from scratch. $19.99 each.

Super Food for a Super You. January is Super Food Month at the market. We’re not talking wheat grass, which is actually not “food”. Super foods includes sardines, avocado, olive oil, quinio, nuts, citrus, dark chocolate, black beans…see, good food! Look for the green grass signs around the store.

Recipe Roundup.

Customers, send us your favorite home recipes! Send them to (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), and if we print yours you win a $10 gift card.Recipe roundup.