New smoked fish delicacies from Loch and Glen

We've just started to add some new products from one of our fellow stall holders at Borough Market, Loch and Glen. They do a wonderful range of smoked trout, smoked salmon, smoked eel and my favorite lightly smoked scallops. 

Hope customers like them as much as we do.

Recipes with Foie Gras: Foie Gras Tatin

I am continuing to look for recipes that use the products we sell and came across this unusual recipe for a Tarte Tatin made with Foie Gras. The combination of apples and foie gras is familiar but served in a traditional French apple pie is interesting.

This recipe is easy to make and I would recommend buying bloc de foie gras du canard (duck) for this particular dish.

Discounts offered for Easter

The Market Quarter is offering customers a discount of either £5 or £10 on orders before the 1st of May. To obtain the discounts they need to enter a voucher code during the checkout process. The code easter30 gives £5 off £30 orders and easter50 gives £10 off orders of £50 or more.

The offer is open to UK customers only.

Redesign to provide greater customer information

We have spent the weekend updating The Market Quarter to provide shoppers with more information as they are shopping. 

We have also tweaked the colour scheme and this presentation of products and product images to make the site clearer and hopefully easier to use.

The biggest change is reformatting the collections pages used to present sets of similar products so that they can contain a column of useful information (and links) to help customers choose between the items shown. For example the collection of foie gras now has a column on the right describing how to choose foie gras.

Please let us know what you think of the new design and how we could improve it still further.

Duck Confit, Fresh Mozzarella Cheese and Oven Roasted Tomato Pizza

The Market Quarter is about quality ingredients such as duck confit but sometimes you are going to need some help in finding exciting ways to use them. We'll search the web for you and find recipes that use the things we sell. 

Duck Confit, Fresh Mozzarella Cheese and Oven Roasted Tomato Pizza sounds delicious but if you make your own confit it will be over a month before you can eat it. How much simpler to buy a tin or two and store it until you want to make a tasty pizza such as this.

The recipe combines shredded confit with homemade pesto (made from basil, pine nuts, fresh parmesan cheese and extra virgin olive oil). Top a pizza dough base with mozzarella, fresh sliced tomatoes and finish with the confit and pesto and you have a splendid pizza.

To buy the all important duck confit visit Market Quarter.com.

Photographing new gift items at Covent Garden

Le Marche du Quartier, the Market Quarter has two bricks and mortar shops; in London's foodie Borough Market and recently opened in the rather more touristy Covent Garden. 

Both sell the same ranges of products as on MarketQuarter.com but Covent Garden has a more relaxed cafe atmosphere reflected in a greater range of biscuits, ceramics and chocolates. 

I took a trip up to our Covent Garden location yesterday to check our current items and to make sure that we had not missed any suitable for the online store. 

It turned out that Amy, who manages the store, has found some delightful ceramics and tableware which would make great gifts so I took some pictures and they will be added to the site this weekend.