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Entries for March, 2006

Beanie’s Homemade Salsa

Greetings again readers, from the great state of salsa…er, I mean Texas. Sometimes I get the two confused. They are becoming synonymous to me.
There’s seldom a day that goes by I don’t consume some salsa. I’ve been trying to lose weight by eating lots of salads at night instead of heavy meals. My favorite salad [...]

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A non-Chilehead view of the Fiery Foods Show in NM

We weren’t able to attend the Fiery Foods Show this year out in NM, but lots of people sure did. While there were quite a few new & old chilheads, there were definitely some in attendance who were not. Here’s some excerpts from a cool article about the Show from the azfamily.com site where the [...]

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Homemade Sauce Review: Yankee Rebel meets New York Chinense Chipotle Sauce

By Who: A panel of sauce tasting experts with over 40 years combined experience tasting sauces from all over the world. Six firefighters at Station 111 in Indianapolis. This panel has tested literally hundreds of sauces and salsas submitted by folks from as far away as England and Australia. As firefighters, their opinion is brutally [...]

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Recipe for Fish Tacos

Some dishes are married well to spicier fare, and fish tacos is one of those. One of our favorite dishes to make at home, we recommend using the mahi mahi instead of the tilapia filet, as it gives a meatier taste. We saw the recipe below as a tasty, yet healthy, option for making a [...]

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‘Grindable’ hot sauce

Nando’s sauces are pretty tasty, so we give this new product the benefit of the doubt until we try it. If you grind it, isn’t it a spice rather than a sauce? If someone tries this, please let us know how it is…

Irvine, CA – Mar 28, 2006 (PRN): Nando’s is launching an award winning [...]

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What kind of hot sauce are you?

Shamelessly swiped from Slow Burn.

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Hot Sauce Recipes

One of the great things about tasting people’s homemade recipes and talking to them about their creative juices in making their own sauce is the diversity by which some will craft their capsaicin-laced creations. A question for those makes to answer is: what is your ‘base’ sauce and do you use that to build your [...]

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Review: CaJohn’s Hungarian Mustard

In addition to selling a wonderful variety of hot sauces and salsas, CaJohn’s Fiery Foods also has some other condiments worth mentioning to the chilehead public. The Hungarian Hot Wax mustard is probably the mildest of the fiery mustards available, but we decided to start mild and work our way up the heat scale. Since [...]

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Someplace cool to eat in the ol’ hometown

Joe’s hometown is Bradenton, FL, mostly known as the spring training home of the Pittsburgh Pirates, home to Tropicana orange juice, and the sprawling expanse of senior citizens. Well, it now has a place that we chileheads might want to visit for dinner. Check out this review from the Bradenton Herald:

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Homemade Sauce Review: Chuk’s Roasted Habanero

Our next homemade hot sauce review comes from our very own Chuk Hell. Chuk is a proud Austin-ite and virtual renaissance man, and this sauce is but one of several he creates on a regular basis. Chuk may consider this a “B” sauce, but our esteemed reviewer, CaJohn, thinks otherwise.

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