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Entries for March, 2009

Passow Can’t Escape The Mongoose’s Bite

Picked up one of CaJohn’s latest sauces at the Fiery Foods Show in Columbus just last month. Mongoose is being called The Black Mamba killer in regards to both the taste and heat. This thing is hot, tasty, and just plain beautiful.
CaJohn’s Mongoose Hot Sauce Ingredients: Bhut Jolokia, Fatalii, vinegar, natural flavors.

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2009 Salsa Contest at the Jungle Jim’s “Weekend of Fire”

If you are a professional salsa maker and you think your salsa is better than the rest, then there is a contest for YOU. Bret Vitek of Jungle Jim’s International Market will offer to buy a total of 35 cases of salsa from the winner of this contest. PLUS, for Labor Day Weekend, [...]

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Chilehead baseball

What a great way to mix a love of fantasy baseball with the fiery love of hot sauces! For those of you who have done fantasy or rotisserie baseball in the past, you know how this works. In essence, you draft a team of real-life baseball players to make your roster, accumulate the [...]

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Looking for a good web designer

We are seemingly a but cursed with talented, yet flaky, web designers who are not always as responsive as we would like to our requests to tweak our format or update our blogging platform. We are asking for suggestions and/or references for good web designers who we could hire to help this blog with [...]

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Cooking spicy food in style, part 2

Well, after the first part of this article we were determined to see if the description lived up to the billing, in terms of the use of the cookware. Thanks to the fine people at Cookware.com, they provided for us this fine Paula Deen 12″ cast iron skillet to try with our own style [...]

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Passow Catches Mad Cow

We all know of my hatred of the bovine species. As the creator of the Cowspiracy website detailing their plans for world domination I will not waiver in my stance. But occasionally, one must bend his resolve to what appears to be a sympathizer. Mad Cow Hot Sauce from Chili-Head Gourmet Foods (website under construction [...]

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The long reach of DEFCON sauces continues

You know that you have finally arrived when you get an author with the nickname of Boss Hog writing an article about you. Such is the case with the most recent article about DEFCON sauces, penned in the NewsBlaze from Folsom, CA. Next thing you know, John Dilley will be the 2000’s version [...]

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Cooking spicy food in style, part 1

You can’t get spicy food to the table unless you cook it, and we’ve been exploring that option in different kinds of ways. We mostly use anodized non-stick cookware (from Calphalon) which we got years ago as a wedding present, and it works OK much of the time. However, many recipes call for [...]

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Toriduck Bloody Mary Mix

There are very few things that Joe and I don’t share with regard to taste. One of the things that Joe doesn’t really like, though, is tomato juice in any form. Thus, I had the extreme pleasure of taking on this review on my own. When the care package arrived from Big [...]

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Quierras Mas Mexican Relish

Quierras Mas (You’ll Want More) Mexican Relish

Ingredients: Water, Vinegar, Onions, salt, Carrots, Jalapenos, Sesame Oil and spices
Keep in mind that vinegar is the number 2 ingredient behind water. Since good H2O has no flavor or smell. Vinegar is the big dog in this dish. More on this, later.
I like the label. Straight [...]

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