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 Post subject: Sour Oranges?
PostPosted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 1:39 pm 
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Folks,

I stumbled across some genuine Seville Sour Oranges at the 22nd & Irving Market the other day, and snagged them because it's one of those regional ingredients I can never seem to get my hands on.

Except now I'm not sure what I wanted them for. I've paged through my Spanish cookbooks but can't find the recipes I didn't make because I didn't have sour oranges. Anyone have any recipe recommendations?

(p.s. for future note, real sour orange juice tastes almost exactly like a mixture of half lemon juice, half sweet orange juice.)

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 2:07 pm 
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Sorry, I did find a reference to cakes flavored with sour oranges in The Cooking of Spain and Portugal, but no recipe.


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 5:47 pm 
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Pernil (a latin long-roasted picnic pork) is made with sour oranges as a marinade ingredient. I've made this several times and got the recipe this last year from the NYT. Very delicious. But I used the Goya sour orange marinade since we don't have access to sour oranges here. Let me know if you want the recipe.
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Nancy,

No, no pork for me. But thanks. I'll keep looking.

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I thought that I remembered that you were vegetarian which I am too, most of the time, but mostly because I just don't care about the tastes. But Russ (my DH) really loves his braises and roasts so I do what I can to satisfy the taste buds of my favorite person.
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I have always wanted them for marmalade. Badly!

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Hey Fuzzy,

Do you have Penelope Casas "Food and Wine of Spain". If not, I'll dig it out and look through it for you.

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In Mexico sour oranges are cut in half, salted, coated with a paste of hot chili peppers, and eaten.


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Hi Fuzzy,
I just read a recipe today from the Jamie at Home book by Jamie Oliver. The recipe is for a salad with avocado, roasted carrot, greens, croutons, etc. He roasts some oranges halved, along with the carrots. The juice from the oranges then becomes a basis for salad dressing. It really looks wonderful, he makes a rub with cumin, olive oil, etc for the carrot roasting. If interested I'll write it down for you here.

Marmalade, yes. An essential ingredient aren't they? What a nice find a winter day.

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 12:02 am 
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Lindsay,

No, I don't. I have 3 other Spanish Cookbooks, though, so if you just point me towards some dishes I can probably find them in what I have.


Lynn,

D'oh! Since they were getting old, I already juiced them and froze the juice. Can I still make the dressing?

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