2012

Chilli Fiesta 2012

Chilli Fiesta 2012

The Mansion House in association with Edible Ornamentals will be hosting The Farther Day Chilli Fiesta on Sunday 17thJune 2012.

Located in the grounds of the magnificent 19th Century Mansion House, former home of the Shuttleworth Family, the Chilli Fiesta promises to be the biggest party around, combining live music, cooking demonstrations and a carnival atmosphere.

The Chilli Fiesta is a great way to meet your customers face to face. The 2011 Fiesta was so popular many suppliers and traders sold out of their products, proving what great value this event is for traders.

The 2012 show promises to be BIGGER, BETTER and MORE COLOURFUL than ever before with an expected audience of 5,000 visitors.

  • NEW! Live celebrity cooking demonstrations in our Taste Marquee
  • Cooking Demonstrations by  Award-Winning Chefs in our Chilli Kitchen
  • NEW! Cooking Classes  in the Chefs Academy
  • NEW! World Food Quarter
  • Chilli Stands selling everything from Chilli Chocolate to Chilli Ice Cream! Don’t forget you can try before you buy
  • NEW! World Buffet.  An opportunity to try food from around the World
  • Grow Your Own in our Garden quarter
  • Gardening demonstrations for foodies in our Gardening Academy
  • NEW! Circus Skills Experience and Funfair for all the Family
  • Additional Indoor and outdoor trade areas with food, crafts, art exhibitors and other specialists
  • The Chilli Bar selling everything from Real Local Ales to Chilli Beer
  • And don’t forget our  ‘Chilli Eating Competition’!
If you are interested in booking a trade stand email info@edibleornamentals.co.uk,

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Chilli Pepper Pete's 2012 Hot Sauce

Chilli Pepper Pete's 2012 Hot Sauce

Okay…lets start this off with some interesting news..WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE IN 796 DAYS!!! well…we are if you believe in Mayan prophecy, personally i’m not sure what i believe but there are ALOT of people who believe that the world will end on December the 21 in the year 2012!

This due to that date being the end of a 5,125 year long cycle in the Mayan long count calendar..now while some see that date a change in spiritual cycle, other nay saying bastards believe it to be the date of the apocalypse! One man stands among us to mock this date at the same time as celebrating it, by bringing us chileheadz a sauce to commemorate this date!!

Ingredients:Capsicum, Onions, Fruit Juice, Habanero, Smoked Bih Jolokia (dried), Fresh Jalapeno’s, Garlic, Sugar, 6.4mil SHU Extract.

(Review bottle kindly supplied by www.chillipepperpete.com)

I was looking through my review samples when i realised that i had’nt reviewed a CPP sauce in a long time, so i looked through the CPP ones and this one jumped out at me, so i grabbed said bottle and sat down with a spoon!

This sauce is simply called “2012 a sauce to die for” anyone who knows Pete knows full well that he likes to poke fun at alot of things when it comes to making sauces (just take a look at his website!) and this one is no different, obviously poking fun at the belief that the world will end in 2012 he has created this sauce so people can celebrate this fact!

With the belief being mayan it comes as no surprise that this sauce uses mexican limes and yucatan habanero’s as its base, then adding a few other bits to ramp the heat up a little, the label is one of CPP’s newer designs with the obligatory shruken head logo on the front and CPP’s tagline of “ifyouplaywithmeyouplaywithfire” (yes its ACTUALLY written that way!), now this is where i had a bit of trouble, but i’m sure someone will correct me if i am wrong! The background of the label is what appears to be a skull, to symbolise the whole death thing no doubt!

Upon twisting off the cap i immediately smelled the unmistakeable whiff of lime, garlic and Habs, no vinegar in this one! the consistency is somewhere between chunky and smooth, i say that because its neither really, it flows like a smooth sauce by has a chunky texture complete with seeds! I poured a bit out onto my tasting spoon and placed it in my mouth, swishing it round before swallowing..immediately i was hit by the fruity zesty lime flavour, coupled with the slightly fruity flavour most people get with a habanero, the heat then hit me, a definite all over tongue burn that was bold enough to announce its presence, but not so bold as to make me hiccup! I think pete is on to a winner with this one, it has a lovely flavour that is neither sweet nor savoury and i can imagine it would go well with alot of things, just this evening i splashed it on my fish and chips and the lime complimented the fish beautifully!

In fact if there was one bad thing i could say about this sauce it would be the slightly overly tangy flavour of the lime masking the smoked naga and garlic, but if citrus is your thing then this may well be the sauce for you!

You can grab a bottle of this over at www.chillipepperpete.com for the bargain price of £4, and if any of you chilefanz fancy the journey, lets all meet at my place on December the 21 in 2012 with a bottle of this each and drink it while the apocalypse consumes us all!! Or we get bored waiting, whichever comes first!

Till next time my chile padawanz, may the sauce be with you, always!!

Flavour
(7/10)
Heat
(6/10)
Packaging
(7/10)
Value
(8/10)
Overall
(7/10)

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Lots of articles last month, including probably the worlds hottest curry, and some new recipes and reviews.

The Chilli Garden

The Chilli Garden

The Chilli Garden – Organic Hampshire Chillies – Based in a wooded vale on the Surrey/Hampshire border The Chilli Garden seven acre’s are farmed by three generations of the same family. Between them Father, Daughter and Son-in-law; Peter, Alison and Mik, have wealth of experience in farming, food production and design enabling them to make everything on the farm themselves.

Wahaca Looking for Chilli Expert – Wahaca, the Thomasina Miers chain of MLots of review and new preoductsexican restaurants is looking for a chilli expert to help them create a showcase for the joys of growing chillies, from how to plant, pollination and harvesting.

Darth Naga Reviews:- Mr Vikki’s Hot Lime Pickle – Well, the elections are upon us and I find its quite easy to get bogged down in political debates and other nonsense so I decided to take myself away from it all for a moment and write a review on one of “Mr Vikki’s” amazing products! Mr Vikki has had a couple of reviews on this site so far and I am sure that as long as he keeps making quality chilli products then we’ll keep on reviewing them!

The ChileFoundry Forum Experiment – We have been looking at opening a user forum for the past 6 months, the object of the forum is our users to discuss products and suppliers, post recipes etc etc.

Men purchase chilli four times more than women? – Men purchase chilli four times more than women reports AUSVEG as part of Australia’s Vegetable Industry Development Program, I guess that is comes has no real surprise, it seem to be mostly men I deal with when reporting for this blog.

Chilli Pantry – Quality Mexican Chillies in the UK – A new retailer for 2010 is the Chilli Pantry, set up by Gina Porras-Parral to sell a range of premium quality Mexican ingredients at affordable prices, based in Brimingham web site currently sell a range of authentic mexican dried chillies.

The Chilli Factory - Fiery Frillneck Hissv

The Chilli Factory - Fiery Frillneck Hiss

The Chilli Factory – Fiery Frillneck Hiss – Hot Smokey Chilli Tomato Sauce – This sauces comes all the way from Australia and has won a number of awards in its home country including 1st prize for Best Hot Sauce Tomato in the Australian Fiery Food Awards in August 2004 as well as a handful of 2nd and 3rd places in other events.

Good Eats – The Big Chili Recipe – I came across these video’s on You-Tube, and it seems like an excellent recipe, so we decided to collected the list of ingredients and the listed some places you can find them here in the UK.

Mr Singh’s – BBC1 High Street Dreams – What a great opportunity for Mr Singh’s Punjabi Chilli Sauce. I don’t think they could get a better plug for the sauce than BBC1 High Street Dreams

HillBoy from Gurkha Fine Foods – This is billed as “The Ultimate Chilli Experience – A Condiment that bites back!” and I think it is a first for us to be reviewing a Gurkha product. The Gurkha people are from Nepal and North-East India, the name coming from a Hindu warrior-saint Guru Gorakhnath.

Cambridge Chilli Farm – Ghost Pepper 10 Review – While at the Firey Foods Festival in Brighton, Chris & Rosie Jagger from Volcano Chilli asked me when I was going to review a sauce that they have found to be an excellent seller, Chris then sent me another bottle, he said that the recipe has been improved from the original version.

Chilli powder put in husbands pants – According to the Cambridge News Sharron Mackay the defendant in a fraud trial put chilli powder in her husband’s underpants as their marriage fell apart.

Orange Krush Hot Sauce – I’ve been sent a bottle of “Orange Krush” to taste and give my (expert? lol) opinion on, this sauce again comes from www.Hot-headz.com and i believe is the only place in the uk you can buy it, i say this as after a brief search using the trusted google, hot-headz was the only one that came up in the uk!

Could you eat “Probably the World’s Hottest Curry” and win £100 – Fire Foods and local Grantham’s Bindi Restaurant are putting down a challenge to anyone who thinks they are tough enough!

Lady Bird Johnson’s Pedernales River Chili Recipe – This recipe originally contained beef suet, but that ingredient was omitted after LJB’s severe heart attack when he was Senate majority leader. Remember to skim the fat off the chilli.

Blairs Ultra Death

Blairs Ultra Death

Darth Naga reviews – Blair’s Ultra Death – Well its that time again chilefanz!! Today I bring you my latest video review, and I reckon this one may just go down in history as the second stupidest thing I have ever done (the first will hopefully be uploaded to youtube at some stage LOL!) stupid for the simple fact that after hearing from Rose Seymour that James beck said “we don’t use milk in our video reviews in the US” I decided to hit the bottom end of mental and do a vid review WITHOUT MILK!! But anyway, the sauce I am reviewing today comes from the godfather of the US hotsauce scene Mr Blair Lazar himself, and this particular sauce is famous for not only being the hottest sauce he mass produces, but also for being one of the only ones to have its name changed during his major rebranding last year!

David’s Chilli Oil – Much more than just a gourmet oil – This is not just an “Oil and Chilli” blend; there is a whole extra level of flavour to be found here and with Rape seed oil becoming the New Olive oil, its time may have come. I am sure you will see more and more gourmet products based on Rape seed oil.

ChilliPepperPete’s Easy Fish Jambalaya Recipe – Jambalaya is a Louisiana Creole dish of Spanish and French influence, it is a close relation to the Spanish paella. This version is made a little quicker and simpler by pre-cooking the rice, traditionally the rice would be added with the stock at the end of preparation and then cooked for 45-60 minutes.

Scott Roberts — Chilli Letter from America #6 – It’s hard to believe it’s already May of 2010. Soon, people all across America will be doing outdoor grilling and barbecuing, celebrating Memorial Day Weekend at the end of this month, and wondering what to do with bored kids all day long now that school will be out for the summer.

Thai Pineapple Curry with Birds Eye Chillies – This recipe comes from a friend of Darth Naga, Sean (also know as Relentl3ss), who has cooked this for Darth and Mrs Naga, so it suspect it will taste very good. It uses the popular Birds Eye Chilli, and not of the ingredients should be hard to find in a reasonable supermarket.

The Chilli Jam Man - The 3 Peaks Chilli Jam

The Chilli Jam Man - The 3 Peaks Chilli Jam

The Chilli Jam Man – The 3 Peaks Chilli Jam – RIGHT let me just start out this review by stating that i’m NOT a big fan of sweet chilli things..problem is people keep sending me sweet chilli things and they are slowly changing my mind!! Todays “Jam” comes from a guy that up until I received this jar and then added him on twitter I knew nothing at all about him, but after a bit of net sleuthing I found out a little.

Growing Chillies from Seed: Part 2 – Once you have some seedlings to pot-on (see picture 1), it is time to separate them and pot them in individual pots. We tend to pot-on gradually, so we use 3” pots first. Using very loose seedling compost will help this stage. We like to use vermiculite on the surface and perlite in the mix.

Hungarian Paprika – The chilli was introduced to Hungary by the Turks during the 16th-17th centuries; it was not until the 19th century that paprika become the dominant spice in Hungarian cuisine.

Top 10 UK Chilli Web Sites — May 2010 – The farmers are now the top 3 chilli web sites in the UK with the Dartmoor Chilli Farm jumping up 2 places to number 3 joining Chillis Galore and South Devon Chilli Farm in 1st and 2nd places.

Hot-Headz Calypso Caribbean Style Hot Sauce – Hot-Headz has been a leading supplier of Hot Sauces in the UK since 1994, owner Stuart McAllister has a passion for hot sauce both finding and developing the best sauces he can find around the world.

Holy Cow! Spicy Bombay Ketchup

Holy Cow! Spicy Bombay Ketchup

Holy Cow! Spicy Bombay Ketchup – BBQ sauce is a area that seems to cover all sorts of sauces, I love BBQ, especially slow cooked pulled pork with lashings of BBQ Sauces, but this sauce is a surprisingly different.

Mr Singh’s Cookalong – Prawn Stir Fry – This is a simple recipe, as you will see exact quantities are not essential when cooking, please feel free to use what you have got, we have added some estimates of the quantities used to help.

Berberé (or Berbere) Recipe – A Hot Spice Mixture from Ethiopia. – Berberé originates from Ethiopia. It is a very hot dry spice mix and has become the basis for most Ethiopian cuisine. It should have a course texture, so don’t grind it to a fine powder.

The ChileFoundry YouTube Channel – Did you know we have our own YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/chilefoundry

Hot Headz & Scorchio Top 10 Products — May 2010 – Hot-Headz and Scorchio provide us each month with there Top 10 products sold that month via their web sites.

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ChilliPepperPete is hoping for a warm and sunny summer, ready for a long and lazy BBQ season, and they are having a sale for some interesting products, while stocks last you can get:-

Hot Sauces

2012 Hot Sauce – Save £1 only £2.50
Dangerous Sauce for Boys – No1 The Spitfire – Save £1 only £2.50
Dragons Blood – Save £1 only £5.00
Dragon Hunter – Save £1 only £2.50
Headhunter Blue – Save £1.50 only £2.00

Crushed and Whole Chillies

Ancho Whole (50g) – Save £0.60 only £2.00
Chipotle Crush (50g) – Save £0.50 only £2.00
Chipotle Whole (50g) – Save £0.50 only £2.00

Seasonings and Herbs

Fajita Seasoning (50g) – Save £0.50 only £2.00
Jamaican Jerk Seasoning (50g) – Save £0.50 only £2.00
Naga Masala Spice Blend (50g) – Save £0.50 only £2.00
Piri Piri Seasoning (50g) – Save £0.50 only £2.00
Mexican Oregano (30g) – Save £0.50 only £2.00

To order visit www.chillipepperpete.com

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