The Black Naga

By Hot Juan, February 8, 2010 12:33 pm

Chil­liPep­per­Pete

Chil­liPep­per­Pete has a come across what could be a new vari­ety of Naga, the Black Naga, it has been found grow­ing in a field in Naga­land (North East­ern India) amongst the nor­mal Naga’s, the pods have been care­fully col­lec­ted and shipped to Pete.

Seeds Sup­plies are very lim­ited and it unknown if they will pro­duce Black Naga’s, but you never know. They are priced at the same price as the nor­mal Naga seeds at just £2.00 for 10 seeds.

Even if this genetic abnor­mal­ity does not appear in the next gen­er­a­tion at least you will have a inter­est­ing Naga plant.

For more info see www.chillipepperpete.com


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Pickling Spice — A British Spice Mix

By Hot Juan, February 7, 2010 11:23 am
Picking Spices

Pick­ing Spices

There are not many spice mixes we can claim as our own, but Pick­ling Spice seems as Brit­ish as it gets.

Pick­ing Spices are what is used to give pickles there bite, but they are also used in the to make roll­mops or soused herrings.

They can be used ground or whole, some people place them in a muslin bag and add to the vin­egar that is to be used for pick­ling (You can buy in super­mar­kets pre-spiced vin­egar oftern labeled Pick­ling Vinegar).

For a quicker infu­sion you can add them to a stain­less pan of vin­egar and bring to the boil before dis­card­ing the spices and using the vinegar.

Ingredi­ents:-
1 table­spoon cori­ander seeds
1 table­spoon mus­tard seeds
1 table­spoon black pep­per­corns
1 table­spoon cloves
3 or 4 dried red chilies
1″ (2.5 cm) piece dried ginger root
1″ (2.5 cm) piece cin­na­mon stick
3 dried bay leaves

When I make my pickled onions I like them to have a real bite, so I used the hot infu­sion method, but leave in the Pick­ling Spices in the jar with the onions to mature, but remem­ber to let the infused vin­egar cool before using, else you will cook and not pickle.


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Recipes, Stories, News and Events

By Hot Juan, February 6, 2010 3:09 pm

David Floyd (Editor)

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Even if you just need help and advice, we are here to help, if we don’t know the answer, I am sure we will know who does.

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Nando’s Portuguese BBQ peri-peri marinade

Nando's Portuguese BBQ peri-peri marinade

Nando’s Por­tuguese BBQ peri-peri marinade

At first taste it is the toma­toes and vin­egar that I noticed, then the lem­ons and finally a little warmth from the pep­pery Cay­enne pep­pers. This is a mild chilli sauce, its fla­vour com­ing mostly from the toma­toes. I did won­der why they called it a peri-peri mar­in­ade as they are well down on the list of ingredients.

We used this to cook BBQ ribs to see how well it cooked on to and mar­in­aded into the meat, unfor­tu­nately it did not do very well, and pro­duced a very dull set of ribs, with little stick­i­ness and most of the fla­vour we had found before cook­ing was gone, now it was just a slightly pep­pery tomato sauce.

Ingredi­ents:- Water, Tomato Paste, White Sugar, White Vin­egar, Lem­ons, Spices (Mus­tard, Gar­lic Powder, Cay­enne Pep­per, Onion Powder, Black Pep­per), Salt, Onions, Sun­flower Oil (0.4%), Thickener (E1422), Fla­vour (Veget­able, Pine­apple), Sta­bil­isers (E415, E405), Col­our (E150c), Arti­fi­cial Fla­vour (Worcester Sauce), Pre­ser­vat­ive (E202), Ser­rano Chil­lies, African Birds Eye Chilli (Peri-Peri Chilli), Bay Leaves

It may have been best not to cook this sauce, but to add it to the food after cook­ing, so that it retains it fla­vour. The fam­ily gen­er­ally liked the sauce dir­ect from the bottle, with no neg­at­ives, just don’t cook with it.

If I see it at a BBQ, I would be happy to add it to my food, but it will not be on my shop­ping list. This sauce is avail­able in most UK supermarkets.


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The Chilli Jam Man — Oak Smoked Garlic & Chipotle Jam

By Hot Juan, February 4, 2010 3:31 pm
The Chilli Jam Man - Oak Smoked Garlic & Chipotle Jam

The Chilli Jam Man — Oak Smoked Gar­lic & Chi­potle Jam

York­shire has always seemed to me, to be the home of home made Jams and pickles, so when we where sent a range from “The Chilli Jam Man”  to review, it was no sur­prise to find where they had come from. The first one to tickle my taste buds was the Oak Smoked Gar­lic & Chi­potle Jam.

This has a deep dark red col­our and on open­ing I was expect­ing it to be a more of a set, jam con­sist­ency, but this jam is runny, more of a sauce or thin chut­ney. When I looked at the ingredi­ents list, I could not see any­thing that would make this set, so I am sure that this is how it is meant to be.

Ingredi­ents:- Toma­toes, Sugar, Red Wine Vin­egar, Oak Smoked Gar­lic (6.9%), Ginger, Chilli (1.7% Dried Chilli weight) Nam Pla (Thai Fish Sauce), Bal­samic Vinegar.

Hav­ing said that the fla­vour is great, the smoked gar­lic and chil­lies and the pre­dom­in­ant fla­vour, as you would hope from a products like this, with the ginger work­ing its magic in the back­ground. The smoki­ness of this is not at all arti­fi­cial, there is no acidic aftertaste

I loved this with a cheese toasty, but even just spoon­ing it dir­ectly from the jar it reminds me of one of my all time favour­ites “The Chilli Man’s Smokin’ Satan”, which we had stocked, and sold con­tinu­ously over the years.

At just £3.50 a jar, it is a bit of a bar­gain and well worth adding to your shop­ping list, we are going to add it to our tomato base for pizza’s tonight.

To find your local stock­ists or  to order on-line visit www.thechillijamman.co.uk


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Hot Sauces — How many do you have open?

By Hot Juan, February 3, 2010 3:00 pm

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Monthly Newsletter — UK Chilli News, Review and Events

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Burn 15% more calories with Chillies

By Hot Juan, February 2, 2010 3:47 pm

A very inter­est­ing art­icle in the Janu­ary 16th issue of the The Times Week­end sec­tion was “Dish of the Day 20 great foods you aren’t eating”

Num­ber 18 was:-

Chillies

Chil­lies

Chil­lies
These are sure to raise your meta­bol­ism the hot­ter you can stand the more their effect. Expect a 15 per cent increase in cal­or­ies burnt for about two hours after eat­ing a hot sauce.

Source — The Times Week­end 16th Janu­ary 2010


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Cambridge Chilli Farm

Tim Murphy con­tac­ted us a while ago to tell us about his new ven­ture “Cam­bridge Chilli Farm” after the arrival of a little boy in Septem­ber 2008, Tim who has pre­vi­ously run a small part time nurs­ery ded­ic­ated to Hel­le­bores, decided to go full time, but not grow­ing Hel­le­bores but chillies.

So in Janu­ary 2009, the first large batch of seeds was sown and the new ven­ture star­ted. With three poly­tun­nels they could grow a good crop of chil­lies and by mid June they star­ted pro­du­cing ripe chillies.

After much devel­op­ment and some help from the local author­it­ies they star­ted pro­du­cing their own rel­ishes, Jel­lies and sauces. Then in July 2009 they did their first Farm­ers Mar­ket in St. Ives Nr Cambridge.

Cam­bridge Chilli Farm Stall

Now they are reg­u­lars on the Farm­ers Mar­kets with a stand at The St. Ives, Cam­bridge, Ely and Ram­sey markets

They have a range of Sauces which we hope to review as time goes on, including:- Ghost Pep­per ‘10’ Sauce – An all nat­ural sauces which boasts 10 Naga Morich per bottle.

And Naga Nap­alm Sauce, Habanero Hot Sauce, Pine­apple & Habanero Hot Sauce, Sweet Chilli Sauce, Smoky Chi­potle Sauce, Tomato & Chilli Sauce.

As well as a impress­ive col­lec­tion of spicy jellys , jam and a smoky relish:- Raspberry & Chilli Jelly, Lime & Chilli Jelly, Cran­berry & Ser­rano Chilli Jelly, Habanero Gold Jam and Red Onion & Smoky Chi­potle Relish.

No online shop as yet, but they accept Cheques and PayPal, So if you are in Cam­bridge visit one of the local farm­ers mar­kets and let us know what you think.

Visit www.cambridgechillifarm.co.uk for more information

Chilefoundry Newsletter January 2010

By Hot Juan, February 1, 2010 12:41 pm

Janu­ary 2010 has been busy time for Darth Naga, he has reviewed prob­ably the hot­test sauce so far in 10 Minute Burn and some of the most inter­est­ing in Marie Sharps Grapefruit Pulp Habanero Pep­per Sauce. We are now look­ing for­ward to see­ing chil­lies grow­ing as the coun­try defrosts

Swazi Fire Chilli Sauce Review — Back in Novem­ber last year I reviewed a lovely product that was made by the ladies of the “Eswat­ini Kit­chen” and brought to these shores by a com­pany known as “Just trad­ing Scot­land”, it was a “Kum­quat Atchar” and most unlike any fruit based chutney/pickle I had tasted before, so now I come to one of their other products which is a cook­ing sauce by the looks of it, but to get its full merit and give it a fair review I will be try­ing it straight from the jar!!

Top 10 UK Chilli Web Sites   —   Janu­ary 2010 — The top 8 seem to be well settled this month, with no changes in pos­i­tion and most have moved up the Alexa rank­ings. New to the top 10 is the Cool Chile Co at No. 9, who have been a lead­ing com­pany in the sup­ply of Mex­ican products in the UK for a long time. We now have two such spe­cial­ist com­pan­ies on the top 10 with MexGrocer.co.uk at No. 8.

Marie Sharps Grapefruit Pulp Habanero Pepper Sauce

Marie Sharps Grapefruit Pulp Habanero Pep­per Sauce

Marie Sharps Grapefruit Pulp Habanero Pep­per Sauce — In 1980, in Bel­ize, Cent­ral Amer­ica, Marie Sharp came up with some recipes for sauces, jams, and jel­lies while exper­i­ment­ing with fresh Habanero pep­pers, veget­ables, and fruits from her farm. She was over­whelmed with pos­it­ive feed­back and encour­age­ment when neigh­bors and friends tasted them. That was when she decided to turn it into a fam­ily business.

Hot Headz & Scorchio Top 10 Products   —   Janu­ary 2010 — Each month we look at the best selling products from some of the UK largest retail­ers, this gives us and you an idea of what is selling well (So what we need to review)

The Hot-Headz 2010 Sale — There are some big sav­ing to be had at Hot-Headz at the moment as they pre­pair to move to their big­ger and bet­ter ware­house. So instead of put­ting it on a pal­let and into a truck they are slash­ing prices.

Chilli Chocol­ate Tiffin — This recipe comes from Phil and Kay Palmer at the Dart­moor Chilli Farm makes a great snack, mak­ing use of their vegan chilli chocolate.

The Gringley Tingley Review — On open­ing I recom­mend you smell this sauce before tast­ing, the smell is so appeal­ing, an intense aroma of freshly cooked ripe toma­toes, it’s not that overly sweet smell from ketchup, but is much much more grown up and inter­est­ing after three of four good sniffs from the bottle, I am ready to taste.

Dart­moor Chilli Farm — Organic and Hol­istic Chil­lies — Dart­moor chilli farm estab­lished in 2007 is loc­ated on the out­skirts of Ash­bur­ton within the beau­ti­ful Dart­moor National Park. It is run by Phil and Kay Palmer. Kay has trained in flor­istry, hor­ti­cul­ture and hol­istic ther­apies. Phil has a dip­loma in com­puter stud­ies and is the chilli enthu­si­ast. They grow over 90 vari­et­ies of sweet pep­per and chilli plants along with rhu­barb, herbs and vegetables.

Birds Eye and Banana Chutney

Birds Eye and Banana Chutney

Birds Eye and Banana Chut­ney — This recipe could not be sim­pler, it takes about 10 minutes to pre­pair the ingredi­ents and only another 20 – 30 to cook.

Nando’s Upgrades Sauces for 2010 — Nando’s has redesigned it labels for it Nando’s Peri-Peri Sweet Chilli Sauce and has make recipe improve­ments to its Nando’s Peri-Peri Tomato Sauce and Peri-Peri BBQ Sauce which now com­ply with the 2010 FSA guidelines regard­ing salt.

From here to Infin­ity! Is this the new cham­pion chilli — There may be a new super hot chilli com­ing soon “Infin­ity” chilli as it has become know is being developed by Fire Foods and Simpson Seeds rumour has it that it tips the scales at 20K more that the cur­rent champion.

ChilliPepperPete Dragon Slayer Enhanced

Dragon Slayer Enhanced

Chil­liPep­per­Pete Dragon Slayer Enhanced Review –There I sat in friendly com­pany, spoon of death in my hand, Mrs Naga behind the cam­era and every­one around me watch­ing with baited breath, wait­ing for me to indulge in my pas­sion right before their very eyes..I am of course talk­ing about my latest video review, and this one is of a sauce from the now Legendary “Chilli Pep­per Pete”!

Ger­man teens hos­pit­al­ised after chilli sauce dare — Eight Ber­lin teen­agers have been rushed to hos­pital are drink­ing con­cen­trated chilli sauce fol­low­ing a spicy game of dare.

E4 — Big Brother’s Little Brother Chilli Inter­view — We have been asked by Big Brother’s Little Brother to be avail­able for a live inter­view from about 6pm today, this is being broad­cast on E4

Scott Roberts  —  Chilli Let­ter from Amer­ica #2 — The U.S. has suffered an eco­nomic down­turn dur­ing the past two years,but things are look­ing up for some of Amer­ican sauce makers. Just one example, Michael Green­ing of Mike & Diane’s Gour­met Kit­chens (makers of Ring of Fire Hot Sauces) said that his sales as of 11 Janu­ary had already sur­passed his entire Janu­ary sales last year. Here’s hop­ing the the remainder of the year will see sim­il­arly rising sales and aggress­ive growth for the entire industry.

The Fire Foods Ama­teur Scov­ile Awards 2010 — This years Ama­teur Scov­ile Awards will take place on the 16th Octo­ber at the same venue as last year the “Old Court­house” pub in Cove, Farn­bor­ough, Hampshire.

West African Tsire Coated Meat­balls — From West Africa Tsire is a mix­ture of ground pea­nuts and spices that is used to coat meat before cook­ing, it is very quick and simple to make and added a unique taste and texture.

Chil­liPep­per­Pete Launches 2012 Sauce — Accord­ing to Pete the world may or may not end in 2012, but just in case he has launched his new sauce called simply “2012”.

Chilli Vari­ety – Bul­garian Car­rot — If you are select­ing chilli plants to grow this year we would recom­mend you take a look at the Bul­garian Car­rot, it pro­duces beau­ti­ful bright orange glossy pods and it idea for grow­ing in a large pot on the patio.

Kit­chen Guru — spicy dal with cori­ander — Kit­chen Guru have some very innov­at­ive pack­aging, with small blister packs of herbs and spices retained in an instruc­tion card. We cooked there spicy dal with coriander.

Angeli’s fresh, fiery, scotch bon­nets steeped in spicy pickle — A recipe for fresh, fiery, scotch bon­nets cap­tured and steeped in spicy pickle by Angeli from My Carib­bean Food Blog.

The Chilli Factory Numbit Nibble

The Chilli Fact­ory Numbit Nibble

The Chilli Fact­ory – Num­bat Nibble Mild Chilli Satay Sauce —  I love pea­nut but­ter; in fact for me pea­nut but­ter is a bit like bacon, in that almost all things taste bet­ter with bacon. I can remem­ber the first time I had Chicken Satay, it was a rev­el­a­tion in taste, This may seem strange now, but it is not that long ago that any­thing but salted pea­nuts in a bag and even pea­nut but­ter was unheard of in the nor­mal fam­ily house in the UK (Note : I was born in the 1960’s).

Hot-Headz Nihil Timen­dum Est (fear noth­ing) Hot­sauce Review — “Nihil Timen­dum Est (fear noth­ing) Hot­sauce” is made form Piri-piri or Peri-peri as some call it, this is just another name for the african bird­seye chilli’s that are small and red and kind of bul­let shaped, they are reas­on­ably hot and for this reason I expec­ted this sauce to be quite spicy! The bottle is one of the same used across most of “Hot-Headz” own range and are very sim­ilar to the US starnd­ard 148ml hot­sauce bottles.

Home Made Red Chilli Jelly — This Red Chilli Jelly uses no col­our­ing or added pec­tin, all the pec­tin com­ing from the Granny Smiths Apples and Cranberries.

Chilli Vari­ety – Chi­potle (Smoked Red Jalapeños) —  It is an odd thing, but every­one seems to want green Jalapeños chil­lies, but at the end of the grow­ing sea­son they are start­ing to turn red before they can be picked and sold, at this point there mar­ket value as a fresh product is about as low as it gets.

The Chilli Pep­per Com­pany — 10 Minute Burn Review —  Okay where to start? This is my first video review since the new year star­ted and OMFG I could’nt have star­ted it with a big­ger bang if i’d have tried! This sauce today comes from our good friends at the “Chilli pep­per com­pany” and I have to say this is EASILY the hot­test sauce they sell and its a f*****g corker!! Ged developed this sauce to com­pete in the ever grow­ing “Ultra-death-killya-stupidly-over-the-fookin-top” hot­sauce cat­egory and I have to say it holds its own rather well, but enough of this, lets crack on eh?

Fresh Fruit Salsa (Could be part of your 5 a day) —  The excesses of Christ­mas are over, it is now time to be good and healthy, this Salsa, is packed with fresh fruit and flavour.

Nitro Naga Bio­haz­ard Edi­tion Review —  The sauce i’m review­ing today comes from a guy known as the “Chil­li­chut­ney­man” and after review­ing a few of his products here on the Chile­foundry i doubt he needs any intro­duc­tion, suf­fice to say that other than selling his products at mar­kets and such­like near where he lives, a fair num­ber of his products are exclus­ive to www.scorchio.co.uk and this is one such sauce!

Vivien Lloyd’s Tomato and Chilli Chutney

Vivien Lloyd’s Tomato and Chilli Chutney

Q. Why are chilies Hot! —  I have over the past few months been read­ing a few art­icles pro­pos­ing that pep­per may have developed this as a defence but not just as a defence against lar­ger anim­als eat­ing them but also to stop insects dam­aging the fruit.

Pringles Launches New Chilli Fla­vour —  Pringles is about to launch another chilli fla­vour, sched­ules for the 11/01/2010 Pringles Thai Sweet Chilli fla­vour fol­lows Prawn Cock­tail, Zesty Lime N’ Chilli and the Pringles Xtreme range that they launched in 2009.

Vivien Lloyd’s Tomato and Chilli Chut­ney  — Vivien Lloyd is an award win­ning pre­serves maker with her pre­serves tak­ing many first prizes at the Royal Welsh Show, she has also fea­tured on the BBC and local radio.

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