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Angela Garbes – The Everything Hot Sauce Book

Hot Juan — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:41:58 +0000

This looks like a little great book for people starting out in the world of Chillies and Hot Sauces. It is the kind of book we all needed when we started, it provides a quick history of chillies, describes what makes them hot and does a good job with a guide to the main varieties and growing techniques. It is unfortunately a little US centric, I guess we have to expect that as it is the target market for this publisher.

Angela Garbes - The Everything Hot Sauce Book

The best part of the book is recipes with over 150 to try, some are a little bit to simple, like making chilli Mayo with Mayo as the main ingredient, I would use our simple Mayo recipe instead, but apart from that they all look interesting with well written instructions, but no illustrations or pictures.

In the middle of the recipe section was a short history/guide to manufactured bottles sauces, but this only covered a few styles (Tabasco, Sriracha, Louisiana and Mexican Hot sauces, before providing some recipes for their use.

The recipes take you from making your own hot Sauces and Pastes, to Salsas, Dry Rub and Mixes, and then on a world tour to Mexico , Texas and the Americas before departing to Europe, African and Middle Eastern and finally Asian dishes, before covering the general subjects of Pickling and preserving and then drinks and desserts.

To make thing simple for us metric users there is a conversion guide in the back of the book, as all the recipes are in odd-looking cups and pounds..

So to sum it all up, A good book for anyone starting in Chillies, ideal gift, but a bit US centric, but still worth adding to your collection, I am sure to use the recipes as a reference guide, but it could do with some more photographs and illustrations.

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The Chilli Garden – Thai-Basque Sauce

Hot Juan — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:01:26 +0000

The Chilli Garden Thai-Basque Sauce

The Chilli Garden is a small family run business in Healey Hampshire, all the chillies in their sauces are grown on the farm, and they use some interesting traditional methods of production, this sauces is fermented for over 24 months before being bottled, something not many small producers can afford to do (I will let you think about one major american sauce producer who makes sauces in this way?).

The Basque part of the sauce comes from the Basque Gorria Chilli which has a Scoville Rating between 2,000 and 5,000 SHU’s, when ripe it is a vibrant red colour. This is not a pepper you often seen grown in the UK and as far as we know The Chilli Garden are the only artisan sauces maker growing and using them.

The Thai Dragon in this sauce is providing the heat and at between 75,000 and 250,000 SHU’s, this is a hot chilli, they are commonly found in Asian dishes, and a healthy plant will produce around 200 chillies about 6cm long and 1cm wide tapering to a point (one of my favourites to grow).

The sauce is a light red almost orange colour, with some very small flex of red chilli skin being visible,even without any thickeners of gums this sauces need no shaking, it is a wonderful consistency. On Opening the bottle I can smell the Vinegar and salt, it is not at all overpowering.

Ingredients: Thai & Basque Chillies (21%), Distilled Vinegar (77%), Sea Salt (2%).

Bottle kindly provided by The Chilli Garden

My only reservation with this sauce is the bottle top, it has one of those plastic pouring thingamajigs that always gets in the way, l do hate them… but once that has been removed, this is a very enjoyable sauce, it is a definite savoury sauce, a nice hit of heat ( we are not in the super hots) and flavour all carried by a salty vinegar liquid.

The recipe may seem simple only three ingredients Chillies, Vinegar and Salt, but the execution is excellent, well worth the 24 plus months wait.

This stuff is a bit like a Tabasco on steroids ideal for dipping your chips in, or making the heavenly Bloody Mary at only £3.00 for a 150ml bottle this is amazing value for money, highly recommended.

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Tabasco® Limited Edition Family Reserve

Hot Juan — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 08:45:00 +0000

2011 TABASCO® Family Reserve

Tabasco is probably the worlds best know chilli sauce, the business started in 1868 and just seems to get more and more popular, it’s provides a great introduction to the world of chillies and probably has done so for many many people over the generations. I think it was the first chilli sauce I ever tried.

Each year is seems a selection of the finest Tabasco peppers are used to make a mash that may be destined for the special Family Reserve. These special peppers are mashed with a little of the Avery Island Salt and stored away in white oak barrels for 3 years, some of these barrels are selected to be aged for up to 8 years, the resultant mash is then used to create the very rare Family Reserve..

Now when we say rare there are probably more bottles of this than most of the UK’s craft producers make in a year, but as a percentage of the overall production, this is very rare indeed.

Well in 2011 the McIlhenny Company has decided to make and sell some of the Family Reserve, each bottle of Family Reserve is sealed with green wax and is adorned with a 2011 TABASCO^® Reserve medallion certifying its authenticity.

Unfortunately you won’t find this in the UK, it is only available at the company store on Avery Island or on their US web site www.tabasco.com, we would love to get a bottle of two here at the ChileFoundry to try and maybe to offer to our readers in a competition..hint hint.

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Here is a fun video from Tabasco…

Hot Juan — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:27:20 +0000

The Tabasco streaker, an old one, but I had not seem it before

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20% off all Chilli Plants from The Dartmoor Chilli Farm

Hot Juan — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:51:41 +0000

Grown your own chillies

The Dartmoor Chilli Farm is offering 20% off all Chilli Plants until the end of this month.

If you are looking for some plants, now is a good time to get your order in, they have an extensive range to choose from:-

Extreme Varieties – Habanero Mustard, Habanero Orange, Habanero Paper Lantern, Habanero Red, Scotch Bonnet Orange, Scotch Bonnet Yellow, Bhut Jolokia Chocolate, Red Marouga, Trinidad Scorpion.

Hot Varieties – Apache, Aurora, Cheeky, Cobra, Coffee Bean, Demon Red, Fairy Lights, Jamaican Red, Jamaican Yellow, Numex Twilight, Pasilla Banjio, Pelita, Prairie Fire, Red Missile, Ring of Fire, Satans Kiss, Tabasco, Thai Hot, Habanero Condors Beak.

Medium Varieties: Aji Hot, Bishops Crown, Bolivian Rainbow, Bularian Carrot, Cayenne Long Purple, de Arbol, Filius Blue, Gold Nugget, Joe E Parker, Onza, Orozco, Pettie Belle, Portugal, Purple Prince, Purple Tiger, Riot, Royal Black, Serrano Purple, Stumpy, Uba Tuba, Aji Limo.

Mild Varieties: Anaheim TMR, Apricot, Black Hungarian, Caloro, Cherry Bomb, Costeno Amarillo, Fresno, Jalapeno Early, Jalapeno Purple, Numex Big Jim, Numex Centennial, Numex Pinata, Numex Suave Orange, Newmex Suave Red, Santa Fe Grande, Tam Jalapeno.

Only available while stock last, you can order direct from their web site http://dartmoorchillifarm.co.uk

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Nicky’s Nursery – Chilli Seeds Suppliers

Hot Juan — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:27:46 +0000

Nicky's Nursery

I have known Nicky’s Nursery for many years, a long time ago they packaged seeds for us to sell, the company was founded in 1992, they opened their on-line store in 1999, they have a small team, but still have the capacity to pack 1200 packets of seeds per day.

In 2009 Which awarded then “Which Best Buy” for the second year running, they have an excellent reputation in the trade and their range of Chilli seeds has grown over the years and they now they have over 200 different varieties.

Their range now includes:- Calico, Chilly Chili, Garda Hocus Pocus, Masquerade, Medusa, Peppa Orangina, Purple Flash, Red Missile, Sangria, Pepper Pequin, Pepper Tepin, Aji Amarillo, Aji Dulce, Aji Omnicolor, Aji Rojo, Puca uchu, Aji Umba Habanero, Aji Yellow, Anaheim tmr, Ancho Mulato, Ancho Poblano, Andy, Antillais Caribbean, Apache, Atomic Starfish, Balloon Hot Pepper, BHUT Jolokia Ghost Chilli, Big Sun, Bih Jolokia, Birdseye, Black Pearl, Black Prince, Born Fire, Bulgarian Carrot, Burkina Yellow, Cajamarca, Caldero, Caribbean, Cayenne Golden, Cayenne Long Purple, Cayenne Long Slim, Chenzo, Cherry Bomb, Cheyenne, Chilhuacle Negro, Chili Powder Pepper, Chimayo, Chinese Five Colour, Costeno Amarillo, Cyklon, Datil Orange, De Arbol, Demon Red, Devils Yellow, Doomsday, EARLY JALAPENO, Explosive Ember, Fatalii RED,Fatalii YELLOW, Fiesta, Fish Pepper, Fresno, Fresno Chili Supreme, Fresno N2003, Friggitello, Fuego F1, Gambia Red, Garden Salsa, Giant Thai Hot, Grekisk Paprika, Guajillo, Habanero Black, Habanero Carribean Red, Habanero Chocolate, Habanero Devils TONGUE, Habanero Flyer, Habanero Golden, Habanero Lemon, Habanero Little Finger, Habanero Luciferino, Habanero Mustard, Habanero Orange, Habanero Red, Habanero Roatan Pumpkin, Habanero White, Habanero Yellow Bumpy, Habanero Yukatan White, Heatwave, Holy Mole, Hong Kong, Hot Lemon, Hot Orange, Hungarian Hot Wax, Indian 50E Sizzler, Indian 50E1 Hot Summer, Indian 50H Fire cracker, Indian Bhavnagari Long, Indian CA 960, Indian chili, Indian Cobra G, Indian Delhi Hot, Indian Exotic Red, Indian Faizabadi, Indian G3, Indian Guntur Hot, Indian Limo, Indian New Delhi Long, Indian NP 46A Bangalore Torpedo, Indian PC 1, Indian Pot Chilli, Indian Punjab Puya, Indian Pusa Jawala, Indian Wander Hot, Indian Warangal Hot, Indian X 235 Dagger Pod, Inferno, Jalapeno, JALAPENO PURPLE, Jamaica Bell, JAPONES, Jati Jolokia, Joes Long Cayenne, Khorika Jolokia, Krakatoa, Krimzon Lee, Kung Pao, Malaysian Goronong, McMahons Texas Bird Pepper, Mem Jolokia, Mini Bonnet, Monkey Face, Mushroom Red, Mushroom Yellow, Navaho SMALL, NuMex Bailey Piquin, NuMex Barkers, Numex Big Jim, NuMex Centennial, NuMex Conquistador, Numex Espanhola, NuMex Garnet, NuMex Heritage Big Jim, NuMex Heritage six-four, NuMex Jalmundo, NuMex Joe E Parker, NuMex Mirasol, NuMex Pinata, NuMex Primavera, NuMex R Naky, NuMex Sandia, NuMex Suave Orange, NuMex Suave Red, Numex Twilight, Numex Vaquero, Onza, Orange Cayenne TSX901, Padron Pimientos de Padron, Paper Lantern, Pasilla Bajio, Pelita, Pequin, Peter Pepper Orange, Peter Pepper Red, Peter Pepper Yellow, Piccante De Cayenne, Pili Pili, Pimenta Pitanga, Pinocchios Nose, Piros, Poinsettia, Prairie Fire, Pumpkin Pepper, Purple Prince Peruvian Purple, Purple Tiger, Red Tip, Ring of Fire, Rocoto Orange, Rocoto Red, Rocoto Yellow, Rodeo 10, Safi Scotch Bonnet, Santa Fe Grande, Scotch Bonnet Red, Scotch Bonnet Yellow, Serrano Del Sol, Serrano Tampiqueno, Speed Ball 15, Super Chilli, Sweet Wrinkled Old Man, Tabasco, Takanotsume, Tepin, Thai Bangkok Upright, Thai Burapa, Thai Dragon, Thai Hot, Thai Yellow Chilli, Tokyo Hot, Topaz, Trinidad Congo BLACK, Trinidad Congo RED, Trinidad Congo YELLOW, Trinidad Perfume, Trinidad Red Cherry, Trinidad RED Seven Pot, Trinidad YELLOW Seven, Tunisian Baklouti, Ubatuba,Vietnamese Tear Jerker.

Nickys Nursery Ltd
Mail order seeds
Fairfield Road
Broadstairs
Kent
CT10 2JU

Phone/Fax: 01843 600972.

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Tabasco Sizzling Pepperoni Pizza

Hot Juan — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:59:11 +0000

Tabasco Sizzling Pepperoni Pizza

I like Tabasco sauce, it is one of the first chilli products people get to try, who’s has not got a bottle at some time in their lives, the salty peppery taste is unique, while not hot, it does have that certain something.

Well if you like Tabasco and Pizza you are in for a treat, the Tabasco Sizzling Pepperoni Pizza is a well packed product, there is a good amount or Pepperoni, Cheese, peppers and tomato topping, the base it not to thick and chewy, but best of all you can taste the Tabasco infused across the pizza.

My daughter, Lizzi who has written for us before, tried it and gave it the thumbs up, while my son Ant, who does not normally like thing hot, enjoyed a slice as well.

Ingredients: Wheatflour, Mozzaralla Cheese, Tomato Puree, Pepperoni (10%), Tomato, Red Peppers, Green Peppers, Yellow Peppers, Rapeseed Oil, Tabasco Brand Pepper Sauce (1.5%), Semolina, Sugar, Yeast, Salt, Oregano, Tapioca Starch, Cornflour.

I enjoyed this more than I expected, in the past many of these types of product have scrimped on the ingredients and play on the brand name to get you to purchase, this one is different.

Normally a £4 Pizza, but Tesco have it on offer at £1 off at the moment, so if you like Tabasco, pop in to Tesco’s and pick one up.

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Hot-Headz Cayenne Hot Chilli Sauce

Hot Juan — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:25:20 +0000

Hot-Headz - Cayenne Hot Chilli Sauce

The Cayenne gets it’s name from the coastal city of Cayenne in French Guiana, it has a unique flavour, peppery and sharp, you oftern find it as an ingredient in medical cures for almost everything., there is even a book called “The Health Benefits of Cayenne” which I am assured is not a travel guide for the city.

Hot-Headz has produced a range of single variety sauces, which is a great way of find the true flavour of each, today we are tasting the Cayenne version. Also have, Bhut Jolokia Naga Chilli Sauce, Habanero Pepper Sauce, Serrano Pepper Sauce, Pasilla Pepper Sauce, Chipotle Pepper Sauce and Jalapeno Chilli Sauce.

This sauce is a Lousiana style (Aged Chillies and Vinegar), it is a nice deep red colour and is not unlike the consistency of the original Tabasco sauce. On opening the sauce has a very distinctive cayenne pepper smell, it always reminds me of a fruity black pepper combined with some vinegar (much more pleasant that it sounds), the heat warms both the mouth and throat in the way only Cayenne can, it is not an extreme heat, but it has that truly unique flavour of Cayenne.

Ingredients: Vinegar, Aged red Cayenne Chillies (32%), Garlic, Salt.

Bottle supplied by Hot-Headz

This is the kind of sauce you splash on anything, excellent on backed beans on toast, or as the base for a salad dressing (Cayenne Sauce, Olive Oil, Vinegar and some runny Honey), use if where ever you would add black pepper is always a good start.

I do like the new look of Hot-Headz sauces and at only £2.99 per bottle this is excellent value for money

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You can order this online at www.hot-headz.com

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Simpsons Seeds – Peppers Sweet and Hot

Hot Juan — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:00:13 +0000

Chilli, Chili, Chile: Peppers Sweet and Hot by Matt Simpson

I always enjoy visiting Simpsons seeds, I have known Matt Simpson since we first had stands at the West Dean Chilli Fiesta may years ago and it is Matt who I turned to for help when writing my book (The Hot Book Of Chilles) to make sure I said the right things. He has also written an excellent book on the subject “Chilli, Chili, Chile: Peppers Sweet and Hot” which is you are growing chillies this book is a must have item.

The nursery is located in Horningsham, Wiltshire and is part of the Longleat estate, while the nursery is closed until April, the seed shop is open all year around, as is their web site

During the year they have a number of tasting days and even their own chilli event (See their web site for dates and details), when you can taste different varieties of hot and sweet peppers. Matt has an extensive seed collection and in the catalogue this year they have:

Aji Crystal, Aji Hot, Apache F1, Black Pearl, Brazilian Mini Bonnet, Bulgarian Carrot, Calcutta, Cascabella, Cayenne: Carolina, Cayenne: Golden, Cayenne: Large Red Thick, Cayenne: Long Red Slim, Cherry Bomb F1, Chivalry F1, Demon Super Hot F1, Elephant’s Trunk, Exploding Fire, Fish, Fresno Supreme F1, Friar’s Hat, Georgia Flame, Goat Horn, Gold Nugget, Habanero: Burkina Yellow, Habanero: Caribbean Red Hot, Habanero: Chocolate, Habanero: Fatali, Habanero: Hot Paper Lantern, Habanero: Peach, Habanero: Rebetona, Habanero: Scutaba, Hinkelhatz, Hungarian Black, Hungarian Hot Wax, Jalapeno, Jamaican Hot, Joe’s Long Cayenne, Krimson Lee F1, Lemon Drop, Little Finger, Malay Bird, Maules Red Hot, Naga Jolokia, Navaho, Nepalese Bell, Numex Twilight, Orozco, Padron, Pasilla Bajio, Peruvian Purple, Portugal, Prairie Fire, Punjab, Purple Tiger, Pusa Jwala, Red Cherry Hot, Red Missile, Ring of Fire, Rocoto Red, Rocoto Yellow, Santa Fe Grande, Scotch Bonnet Red, Scotch Bonnet: Big Sun, Scotch Bonnet: Caribbean Antillais, Serrano, Super Chilli F1, Sweet Wrinkled Old Man, Tabasco, Tepin, Thai Mound, Wenks Yellow Hot, Zimbabwe Bird.

If you are travelling down the A303, or visiting Longleat, please don’t miss a chance visit, please check the web site for opening times.

Simpsons Seeds
The Walled Garden Nursery
Horningsham
Warminster
BA12 7NQ

Phone 01985 845004
Email: sales@simpsonsseeds.co.uk
Web: www.simpsonsseeds.co.uk

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The Domesticated Capsicum Species

Hot Juan — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:32:40 +0000

There are five major Species of capsicums that are cultivated around the world and many other wild species. In technical terms the Chilli peppers are in the genus Capsicum which is part of the family Solanaceae making it related to the potato, tobacco, tomato and even the deadly nightshade.

A selection of Chillies

Capsicum Annuum

Capsicum annuum is the best known domesticated species in the world, in the past 20 years the districtions between the Capsicum Annuum, Capsicum Chinense And Capsicum Frutescens has been called into question as at the primitive level you cannot distinguish between the three species, the fact that they will easily hybridize with each other helps with this conclusion.

It has spread to every part of the world becoming the dominant pepper globally, with the Bell pepper in almost every fresh food retailer worldwide and hot spicy varieties a staple of hot cooking.

This was the species that Columbus introduced to Europe in the 1492.

Examples: Cayenne, Poblano, Anaheim, Jalapeno, Pasilla, Serrano

Capsicum Baccatum

The name baccatum refers to the characteristic of the wild species to be berry like, it probably originated from Bolivia, where there are the greatest selection of wild varieties can still be found.

Examples: aji Amarillo, aji cereza, Bolivian Long, Christmas Bell

Capsicum Chinense

Some of the worlds hottest varieties are Capsicum Chinense which was named by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727-1817), who mistakenly named the species Chinense in 1776, because he believed that they originated in China. It is more likely to have come from Amazonian South America, while it has also appeared sporadically throughout the Caribbean.

Examples: Fatalli, Habanero, Naga Jolokia and Scotch bonnet.

Capsicum Frutescens

The main ingredient of the world most popular chilli sauce Tabasco is a Capsicum Frutescens is grown in large quantities in the Louisiana. (Note: the upper case T for the brand and the lower case t for the chilli variety), Unlike most chillies the Tabasco chilli grows with the fruit pointing up rather than hanging from the plant as does the African Piri Piri.

Examples: Piri Piri ( African Birds Eye), tabasco

Capsicum Pubescens

First domesticated over 6000 year ago. The Pubescens gets its name from the small hairs that cover the leaves and stalks, it is unlike any other domesticated pepper having large purple or white flowers infused with purple and fruits with brown/black seed. There are no wild varieties of this species, though it probably related to a number of other wild species (Capsicum eximium, Capsicum cardenasii, Capsicum tovarii).

Mostly cultivated in South America although small amounts are grown in Guatemala and southern Mexico, it is almost unknown in the rest of the world.

There are verys few varieties of this species, probably due to the fact is cannot cross-pollinate with other chilli species

Examples: Rocoto, Manzano