“Trader Joe’s Chile Spiced Mango”Ingredients: Mango, Paprika, Sugar, Salt, Citric Acid, Cayenne.
I’ve got to give Trader Joe’s a nice round of applause. They are one of the few “main stream” grocery stores that are integrating quality pepper products into their stores. From their Hot Sauce to their Chipotle Salsa, they actually have great flavor [...]

(Great article highlighting other uses of pepper, this time black pepper, in hot & spicy fare. This article published with permission of Tina Brooks from her own blog.)
Every time we introduce a new customer to our Tellicherry Black sauce, we inevitably get asked the same question: “What’s a Tellicherry“.
Tellicherry is not a “what”, it’s [...]

When we think back to our time at ZestFest, we really rue the fact that we weren’t able to spend time with everyone we wanted to see. Such is the case with the fine folks at My Favorite New Mexico Foods. These fine ladies had a neat-looking booth which always seemed to be [...]

This sauce was gifted to us by none other than Cap’n Bones himself, Tracy Campbell, of the Cape Fear Pepper Company for our devious culinary uses.
Now we’ve tried a lot of habanero sauces to be sure, but that has never dissuaded us from trying a few more. The bottle has some pretty swanky looking [...]

Continuing our foray into the world of hot & spicy snack food, we ran across this box of Ass Kickin’ Habanero Popcorn while doing some random grocery shopping the other day, and just couldn’t resist the chance to purchase it…especially since it was on sale.
We’ve only reviewed one other spicy popcorn, the Dave’s Insanity Corn, [...]

Red Bandit Red Bell Pepper Habanero Hot Sauce
Ingredients: filtered water, tomato concentrate, apple cider vinegar, red bell peppers, habanero peppers, honey, carrots, papaya puree, salt, lemon juice concentrate, ginger, garlic powder, xanthan gum.
“Ha. Looking for my brother Green eh. Well he’s tied up right now. Red here. Stole this bottle from Mr. Big Shot [...]

Ingredients: Habanero pepper, vinegar, tomato, salt, spices and 0.1% of sodium benzoate as preservative.
A few weeks ago I went downtown to the Los Angeles Grand Central Market where I picked up a 4 ounce bottle of El Yucateco Salsa Kutbil-ik-de Chile Habanero (XXXtra Hot Sauce) for a grand $1.75! Usually for that amount of money, [...]

Yowza! Our first road trip since ZestFest 2006, and this one will be with the kiddies! We’re venturing down to the Cincy area for the upcoming weekend to spend some time with some friends, and will certainly head up to Jungle Jim’s with them to do a little shopping.
A little hot sauce shopping, [...]

We’ve been chatting off and on with Dave DeWitt from Fiery-Foods.com, which has made us spend some more time at his wonderful website. For those who may not have been there, it truly is a one-stop experience for so many great resources about hot & spicy fare, peppers, and other related topics. Being [...]

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