http://www.marketmanila.com A food blog that talks about food, produce, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and markets here in the Philippines and around the globe. Mon, 12 May 2008 03:15:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Essentially brined lemons, these preserved lemons are used in all sorts of Moroccan tagines and other slow cooked stews. They add a salty, tangy hint of citrus to the dishes, but without the harshness and bitterness associated with fresh lemons. They keep for ages and you only use a teeny weeny bit each time so this recipe should be more than enough for a year's worth of occasional cooking in the Moroccan style. The recipe is from Gourmet Magazine, and I made this batch with the intention of trying out a recipe they featured with crab meat, sambal oelek and preserved lemons on spaghettini pasta, link here. ]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/moroccan-style-preserved-lemons Apicio's comment on the previous post regarding Gourmet magazine seemed so appropriate considering that I was just then writing about old, and I mean OLD issues of Gourmet. I started collecting various food magazines in the late 1980's, however, with several moves across oceans, I had to throw out several years worth of magazines to lighten my luggage. In 1995, with a more permanent base in Manila, I started to save our food magazines once again. As such, there are some 500+ issues of various food magazines on our shelves, today. I was talking to a Canadian friend at dinner about this habit of saving food magazines and she jumped up, disappeared into a room and emerged with an incredible treasure trove... In one box folder, she had saved some very early Gourmet Magazines and she lent me three of them so I could browse through, photograph and do a post on them for Marketmanila's readers...]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/50-years-of-gourmet-magazine Happy Mother's Day! I know a lot of folks head out to eat on Mother's Day, mostly to give mom a day off from some kitchen work, but we tend to stay IN on holidays such as this one since the malls, restaurants, etc. are jampacked and you are more likely to get a mediocre, overpriced and somewhat stressful meal instead of a calm and enjoyable one. Of course there are exceptions, but today is a great day to enjoy food at home, as long as "mom" doesn't have to prepare it. So here was Mother's Day lunch at our place... ]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/gourmets-spicy-crab-spaghetti-with-preserved-lemons http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/marketmanila-tote-bag-in-todays-inquirer http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/what-do-you-order-at-pinoy-restaurants