For six out of the past seven years, we have hosted our very own chili cookoff. An event that started out as our own birthday party where we could show off our chili-making talent and have our friends judge them for us has turned into our one annual shindig where we can invite the chili [...]

We’ve been looking forward to this review for quite a while. This jar has been lurking around our hot sauce cupboard shelves forever, just waiting for us to find a use for it. We originally had this jar of mustard that had been gifted to us by CaJohn for purposes of this review. However, I [...]

It seems like we come across lots of different recipes each day, but many are simply too convoluted or complicated to try more than once. This one below is from an article out of an online publication out of Vancouver, BC, and we’ve tried a version of it before. We recommend it highly, and you [...]

Anyone ever have kimchi before? There was a neat little Korean grocer that resided within shouting distance of our local Sam’s Club when we lived in Kentucky that had the best spicy kimchi, in every size from the small six ounce mustard-style jar all the way up to 2-gallon vats. If you’ve never had it, [...]

Some uses for habanero powder are not intrinsically obvious, so sometimes we rely on a little inspiration to decide how to use some of our pile of hot & spicy swag. With a recent order from from the fine folks at Extremefood.com, we picked up a bottle of Death Rain Habanero Dry Rub. Even though [...]

During a rare half-day off from the world of hospital trauma medicine, we were able to take the family down to the North Market here in Columbus, OH for a couple of hours of perusing the shopping options. After picking up a bottle of wine and wonderful Belgian beer, we stopped by one of our [...]