It sounds like an oxymoron at first, but you find out soon after that there is nothing black nor swampish about these products. Black Swamp Gourmet seems to put out some pretty good products with excellent versatility. Granted I have only tried the meat rub and hot barbeque sauce, but I think it’s a winning [...]

It’s always a pleasure trying new products from new companies. This time up is two products from Jeff Stevenson over at Crazy Uncle Jester’s. The first is a smoked Jolokia dry rub and the second is what appears to be the first Bhut Jolokia candies available on the market. Crazy Uncle Jester’s Wholly Smoking Jolokia [...]

Ingredients: white cheddar, jalapeno, and other herbs & spices PHOENIX WHITE CHEDDAR JALAPEÑO – Real white cheddar cheese powder mixed with pure jalapeno makes this great tasting cheese powder that is great on popcorn, pasta, pizza, soups, salads or anything you wish. Blend with sour cream to make a great white cheddar jalapeno chip dip. [...]

Ever the popular one to have test batches sent to, I have received two from our friend Ol’ Benito. The first one is his attempt at a Louisiana style hot sauce which is named Old Coy Dog. The second is a delicious sounding maple dry rub which is aptly named Vermont Maple Chipotle Rib Rub. [...]

I love me some Cajun food and the essence of Cajun taste is in the spices. What I have for review here is Cajun Island Blackening Spice. I so rarely do any blackening of my foods (mainly because I lack a cast iron pan and I have a glass stove range) which makes this review [...]

Our regular readers can attest to my love for Defcon Sauces, in particular the wing sauces which made Defcon Creator, John, famous. About a year ago he came out with a powdered version of his Wing Sauce and I kept putting off purchasing it but I finally bought it at this years Weekend of Fire. [...]

We usually try not to do double reviews of the same product here at THZO and Joe has already done a great job of reviewing these products. I’ve known Clement from Cajun Heat for a while now since we both are members over at The Hot Pepper forums. His label designs have always stuck out [...]

Finally had a chance to sit down and cook up a nice steak (I’ve been lax in my BBQ duties this year) so what better opportunity than that to use Sauce Goddess BBQ Sweet Heat Rub Rub. No, that’s not a typo, they have rub on there twice. Sauce Goddess BBQ Sweet Heat Rub Rub [...]

Chuck Evens from Montezuma was a bit pleased with his new creation when I spoke with him at The North Market just a few months ago. The product in question is his Smokey Salt. Not being that much of a salt fan I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to give this a fair [...]

Anyone who’s company motto is “eat like a freak” is going to get our attention, and in this case we’re certainly glad that the Cajun Heat company let this review happen. Ever since my heady days of youth at Tulane University (where my liver got its “seasoning”), I have had a soft spot for not [...]