Superfood, and we don’t mean wheatgrass!
01/30/2009
"In short, in life, as in a foot-ball game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don't foul and don't shirk,
but hit the line hard!"
Super Bowl Sunday is an unofficial national holiday, a giant block party combining sports, food, and betting.
Did you know that it is the second largest guacamole consuming day in America? Or that the Monday after is the #1 work absentee day? And I don’t think it’s the guacamole’s fault…
Party Food!
Super Special: Dry-aged Niman Ranch bone-in rib-eye $14.99/lb, or boneless $16.99/lb. Dry-aged beef has a very intense beefy flavor, grill it and slice it on a platter for the buffet. No one else in town has better tasting beef than this. Period.
Wings with our new Luciano’s Wing Sauces – hot, med, mild. $6.69. Delicious, local, and they’ll be here Saturday, 2-4pm, to introduce their product to you.
A mixed sausage tray is a beautiful thing, especially when there’s new Niman Ranch sausages to try, like Apple Gouda, Spicy Italian, or Chipotle Cheddar, and Continental’s Smoked Buffalo or Kolbasa. Serve with a variety of mustards and cabbage products.
Guacamole,
pico de gallo
, tomatillo salsa, and salsa Mexicano...we’ve made them by the truckload and we’ll sell out like last year so get them while they’re hot!
Stock up on our pork green chili, or spicy chili con carne made with ground beef, ground pork, and beans. Our Asiago garlic toasts are perfect with the con carne. Touchdown!
New new new!
Ladies and gentlemen, introducing our new and improved Frequent Shopper Program! So very easy: For every $250 worth of food you buy in a quarter, 3 months, get a $10 gift card. (It comes in the mail, no Ed McMahon and his Prize Patrol but exciting none-the-less.)
Buy $500 in a quarter, get a $20 gift card; $750, get $30; $1000, $40; $1250, $50…and on and on. We’re not counting visits anymore, just dollars spent. T-shirts count too! Make sure we get your card swiped, carry it with you
always.
Frequent Shopper Specials this week:
Avocados for $1, (reg. $1.49), and Mini sweet pepper pints $3.99, save $1 each.
Pepper Fennel Stuffed Chicken Breast in the prepared food case. Sweet peppers and roasted fennel are blended with creamy ricotta cheese and fresh basil. $9.99/lb.
A Panini grill in the deli! www.marczykfinefoods.com/blog has the soup of the day and the Panini of the day. Staff fav so far: the pastrami and cheese Panini-ed.
Boyajian Infused Oils in basil, garlic, or rosemary flavors. $8.99. Delicious for dipping bread or in salad dressings.
Blue cheese and asparagus stuffed flank steak, $12.99/lb; and wild mushroom and herb stuffed pork loin roast, $7.99/lb. Both in the meat case. We roasted the pork loin roast last night and served it with a Madeira sauce, super delish!
Crab stuffed sole, $21.99/lb, and salmon roulades, $19.99/lb. Market made, easy.
Idiazábal (ee-DYAH-tha-ball) Cheese. Idiazabal hails from the Basque country in Spain. During production, the wheels are lightly smoked over beechwood, hawthorn or cherry for 10 days, imparting a slight smoky quality that adds wonderfully to the rich, nutty flavor of this sheep’s milk cheese. Imagine Manchego’s country cousin: a little rougher, stronger too, but fun.
Introducing baker to the stars, John Hinman, who is baking cookies, breakfast breads, and brownies for us now. Hailing from Rome, NY, John was the opening chef at Vesta Dipping Grill, a pastry chef at Roy’s, a sous chef at Jax and Lola’s, and one of Denver’s 5280’s Top 5 Pastry Chefs. Many of you may have had his amazing gelato from Nosh on Pearl St, make sure you try his cookies here!
Check this!
Scary yet fun fact. Marczyk Fine Foods sold over 3000 pounds of bacon last year. Celebrate with this Bacon Explosion recipe, (it looks better than it sounds) which would be just right for your Super Bowl party: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/dining/28bacon.html?_r=1&em.
Too PC? One of our customer’s email filters kicked out my last email due to “racial discrimination” found in the email. The word that got us booted? “Kraut”, as in sauerkraut. And now they won’t get this one either because I said it again, oops.
Recipes
This is not so much a recipe as a suggestion. Pulled this straight off a great website:
http://www.endlesssimmer.com/2009/01/27/pittsburgh-vs-arizona-super-bowl-food-off/
“The legendary Sonoran Hot Dog may have originated in neighboring Mexico but it was made famous by the Hispanic-heavy neighborhoods of southside Tucson, Arizona. A bacon-wrapped hot dog is placed on an oversized bun and topped with pinto beans, tomatoes, onion, mustard, mayo, crema, relish, jalapenos…well, you get the point - basically whatever the hell else they have on hand.”
