I loves me some green hot sauce with my eggs so when Taylor’s Ultimate tapped me to review their tasty selection of products, I decided to start with their Mild Jalapeno Sauce on one of my personal favorites: the breakfast quesadilla.
A Book Every Hot Sauce Maker Should Have
With us going into the Fiery Foods Show in just a couple of weeks and Dave making the final pushes to pull in attendees, I’m posting about marketing this week. It’s an area that makes or breaks many a spicy product maker looking to take their product from part-time hobby to full-time business. Sara Lancaster and her company The Condiment Marketing Co. specialize in this area. A few weeks ago, she gave us a copy of her latest ebook, Make Your Food Biz Look BIG: A Guide for Entrepreneurs Who Want to Market Like the Pros, for review. Its information is must-have for any hot sauce or condiment maker trying to grow their product into a major business. Here’s why.
Burn Tested: Chicken in Strawberry-Rhubarb Salsa
That went well. Any time I bust open a jar of fruit salsa, I’m a little skeptical. Mango and peach I understand. When you start throwing berries into the mix with onions and peppers, though, I’m still getting used to the idea. I like fruit salsa but I’m still trying to wrap my noggin around it. At last year’s show Chehalem Ridge Brands gave me four of their fruit salsas to test out. I made some good pork burgers with the pineapple. Last night a group of chicken thighs hit the grill slathered in the company’s Swingin’ Strawberry-Rhubarb Salsa. The results came out better than I hoped.
7 Mid-Priced Grilling Gift Ideas
Christmas is a week away but there’s still plenty of time to shop for me that special griller/pitmaster/chilehead in your life. Here are 7 suggestions they’d love to find wrapped up under the tree Christmas Day.
6 Big Ticket Grilling Holiday Gift Ideas
If you hurry, you can still by me the pitmaster/chilehead on your list some really great grilling and barbecue gifts. Over the next three days I’ll be posting lists from big expensive gifts to stocking stuffers. Let’s start with the expensive goodies and work our way down. For purposes of our list, all of the items below cost at least $450.
Star Wars: The Grill Awakens
In nine days, Star Wars: The Force Awakens hits movie theaters, hoping to avenge the accidental tragicomedy known as the prequels. People are flocking to theaters to see it. If, like me, you’re one of them, consider a tailgate party near the theater, complete with all this Darth Vader grilling gear I found for you on Amazon.com. Just make sure mom doesn’t find it in the basement. We both know she’ll throw it all out like she did my old toy Millenium Falcon after I left for college. Which is now worth a fortune. That I don’t have. Because someone threw it out.
Cornferno: Is this the World’s Hottest Popcorn?
When you claim to make “The Any-est Anything Ever” you better be able to back it up. People are going to test you. Pop Pop Shoppe claims its Cornferno is “The Hottest Popcorn. Ever.” After passing it around at a party and having eaten two big handfuls myself, I’m inclined to agree with that claim.
