We don’t go recipe-hunting too terribly often, but we can’t ignore a good one when we see it. Courtesy of this great article from The Oregonian at Oregon Live.com, this is a great idea of what you can do with your holiday turkey to make a chilehead feast out of it. Special thanks [...]

Slowly but surely, we’ve been working our way through all the goodies we brought home from our big ol’ trip to ZestFest 2006. This BBQ sauce/marinade by Goleta, Inc. was one of the tasty BBQ treats we tried there. It was a tasty marinade, at least as far as we could tell from [...]

”Blue’s Habanera Reserve” Ingredients: Cayenne peppers, Chili peppers, crushed dried Red Savina Habanero peppers, cider vinegar, tomato, course Black Peppers, salt, sugar, and lime.
A bunch of chili-heads over at The Hot Pepper were lucky enough help perfect this sauce. Once all the advice was in, we received the final product (minus the label because that [...]

Here is part 4 in the series chronicling Chuck Evans’ effort to research the connection between Captain Maunsel White’s and Edmund McIlhenny of Tabasco® Brand fame.
This information published with the permission of the author, Chuck Evans, and is copyrighted material. The original document can be found at: The Real History of Tabasco®
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Sometimes really good things come from unexpected accidents. This sauce is just such a tale.
This hot sauce is one of the newer ones out of CaJohns‘ stable of fine hot sauces, and is ostensibly a cayenne sauce. CaJohn himself, John Hard, relayed a story of their attempts to mix up this particular sauce [...]

Here is part 3 of 4, and it talks of the rise of the McIlhenny family and Tabasco sauce. Part 4 and the conclusion coming soon.
This information published with the permission of the author, Chuck Evans, and is copyrighted material. The original document can be found at: The Real History of Tabasco®
Edmund McIlhenny [...]

I’ve been in a jerky frame of mind lately. Since doing my first jerky review on spicy jerky, I’ve totally been jonesing for it. So, it was sheer fortune and happenstance that I happen to get an email from Janie from the House of Jerky asking if I wanted to review their spicy [...]

This is part 2 of our series about the history of Tabasco sauce and Maunsel White. It’s pretty dense on the history of goings-on in Louisiana, but this is setting up the story of the rise of the McIlhenny family…which will be coming in part 3 to be published soon.
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One of the things we like to keep up with is the lore & history of chile peppers and hot sauce. Chuck Evans, of Montezuma Brand, has done quite a bit of research into the original history of the Tabasco (R) brand and the connection with a certain Mr. Maunsel White, who has an [...]

Passow Receives Another Bit of Hell

Ingredients: Habaneros, garlic, onion, lime juice, carrots, tequila, honey, apple cider vinegar, salt, black pepper.
As promised, here is the review for the second sauce that I received from Chuck Hell. Titled “Chuk Hell’s Smokin’ Hot Sauce”, this sauce does not disappoint. It is very similar in ingredients and sweetness to [...]