After eating a few Trader Joe’s Habanero Pistachios, they rapidly became an addictive snack. I am definitely not a nut fan (with a few rare exceptions), but these babies are so good they just might change my mind…
Here’s the lowdown on these delectable little spiced nuts…
Benito’s Naranja Organic Hot Sauce
Ladies and gentlemen, I’m a sucker for vegetable and carrot-based hot sauces. You give me a good one and I’ll keep coming back like a sad little puppy dog begging for more. Now up at bat is Benito’s Naranja Organic Hot Sauce, a tasty-looking concoction that uses fresh organic and all-natural ingredients.
Ingredients: Onions, Tomatoes, Carrots, Garlic, Vinegar, Lime Juice, Cayenne, Jalapeno, Habanero, Serrano, and Thai Peppers
Aroma: 4.5 out of 5. Very fresh and light. I sensed hints of vinegar and garlic, blending in with a pleasing vegetable aroma. I’m not joking; after a few sniffs of Naranja, my mouth started to water.
Texture and Appearance: 4 out of 5. Naranja is a bright orange (of course, naranja is Spanish for the color orange), probably due to the presence of carrots. The sauce in my bottle contained very, very few minuscule dark specs amongst the pure orange mix. It’s consistency is…
Hungry for a hearty, all-purpose condiment with bucketloads personality? Dr. E. Lee Spence has concocted not just one but a duo of spicy mustards that are among the best of their type that I’ve ever had.
Ingredients – Murder Mustard: Prepared mustard (distilled vinegar & water, mustard seed, salt, turmeric, spices), peppers (jalapeno peppers, water, vinegar, iodized salt, spices & soybean oil), vinegar, spices, onion, salt, and garlic.
Ingredients – Honey Fire Mustard: Prepared mustard (distilled vinegar & water, mustard seed, salt, turmeric, spices), peppers (jalapeno peppers, water, vinegar, iodized salt, spices & soybean oil), honey, spices, and onion.
Aroma: Each one has a satisfying…
If you’re ever dined at one of the fun-for-kids Rainforest Cafe locations, you may or may not have been blown away by the food depending on the fare you order. Anything with the Smokin’ Mojo BBQ sauce gets a thumbs up from me. Curious as to see if the Smokin’ Mojo Rib Rub (A Spice Island Adventure) stacks up to the finger lickin’ sauce, I purchased a bottle of the seasoning from the Rainforest Cafe naggingly persistent gift shop to try at home…
For my latest review, it’s time to bring out the big guns: Blair’s Jersey Death Sauce. When it debuted a few years back, it was the hottest “regular” sauce in Blair offered, not including reserves and specialty items, and the “king” of the Death Sauce lineup. How hot is it? Well, right on the bottle’s label, it reads this:
“Be warned: this sauce contains ingredients 750 times hotter than a jalapeno chile. Use sparingly. Jersey Death should not be consumed without dilution.”
750 times a jalapeno’s heat? Could this be correct? In terms of Scoville Heat Units, jalapenos can range from 2,500 to 8,000 SHU. If you take the low-end number (2,500) and multiply it by 750, you come up with 1,875,000 SHU. Can this be right?
I’m not a fan of hard pretzels by any stretch of the imagination. Soft ones I can handle, but to me regular hard pretzel twists and sticks are akin to gnawing on salty, overly dry tree branches. The really big hard ones are absolutely horrible – why someone would chew on burnt-bread-flavored rocks that suck all moisture out of your mouth is beyond my comprehension.
Surprisingly, though, Snyder’s of Hanover Hot Buffalo Wing Pieces are these such hard pretzel bites and actually appeal to me. Read on to find out why…
Looking for something that adds a quick kick to just about everything you eat? A little 1.5 oz bottle of Darst Devil Dust, produced by Waddy Spice Traders LLC, may be the answer you’ve been looking for.
Ingredients:
The label reads non-specifically “a blend of selected hot and mild peppers. NO SALT ADDED”. Honestly, what more do you need than that?
Aroma:
4 out of 5. Already being familiar with the scent of my own dried habaneros, jamaicans, and cayennes…
An airplane loses it’s right wing and makes an incredible one-winged landing. Is this a real plane, a RC plane, or CGI? You be the judge:
The Scoville Scale is used to measure the pungency or hotness of a chile pepper. The chemical compound found in chile peppers (from the genus capsicum) that gives this piquant heat is called capsaicin (the molecular formula is (CH3)2CHCH=CH(CH2)4
CONHCH2C6H3-4-(OH)-3-(OCH3) or simply C18H27NO3), and stimulates chemoreceptor nerve endings, especially in the mucous membranes. The number of Scoville Heat Units (SHU) in a pepper or hot sauce indicates the amount of capsaicin present.
While working for the Parke Davis Pharmaceutical Company in 1912, American chemist Wilbur Scoville devised a test for rating the pungency of chile peppers. His method is known as the Scoville Organoleptic Test.
In the Scoville Organoleptic Test…
Former Mystery Science Theater 3000 writers and performers began the Cinematic Titanic video project late last year, picking up where they left off by poking fun of terrible B-movies as they watch them. They’ve been performing this show in person at select locations around the country. I caught Cinematic Titanic Live! on Saturday, November 1st at the Family Arena in the St. Louis suburb of St. Charles, Missouri…
From Blair Lazar:
Dear Chilipal,
With Halloween just days away, it also marks the opening of the all new extremefood.com. Here is a chance for you to have some fun and best of all its free. Here’s How: Send us you and your ride. Or if you’re the shy type, just send you. This is one of the many New Fun sections on the All new from the ground up Extremefood.com. Over the last 20 years, I have learned that I share much more in common with my Chilipals than Hot Sauce. Just to name a few, Great Food, Micro Beers, and Cars. And while we’re on the topic of cars, I love um, All of um, and whatever your ride is, I would be honored to have you share it, Even if you walk to work you can just show us your sneakers. I don’t care if it’s your skateboard, tricycle, Chevy, maybe the highline collector hotrod you just bought at Barret-Jackson, or your rusty hunker. Share, See it, and send it quick, I will guarantee all “legal” lol pictures will be posted on the New extremefood.com and shared around the world to my Awesome Chilipals. Thank you for sharing in my passion for the World of Spice. My Best to you. Feel Alive!
Your Chilipal,
Blair
blair@extremefood.com
P.S. Tomorrow Night I will put my limited 89 Bottle production of 2008 Halloween available for Pre-Order. They are Special and the #89 represents my 20 years of having the pleasure of getting to know the most amazing group of people I could ever hoped to have met in the Chilihead Community that have become such a part of my life. Thank you.
CLEARFIELD, Pa. – It took Brad Sciullo 4 hours and 39 minutes to finish a marathon. A meat marathon, that is. The 5-foot-11, 180-pound western Pennsylvania chef is the first person to eat a monstrosity called the Beer Barrel Belly Bruiser: a 15-pound burger with toppings and a bun that brought the total weight to 20.2 pounds.
The mountain of beef is the product of Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub, about 100 miles northeast of Pittsburgh in Clearfield.
Sciullo, 21, of Uniontown, said he was surprised he finished the sandwich Monday. “About three hours into it, things got tough,” he said.
When asked what possessed him to eat a burger that big, Sciullo said: “I wanted to see if I could.”
The burger included a bun, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, onions, mild banana peppers and a cup each of mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard and relish, pub owner Dennis Liegey said.
For completing the challenge in the under-five-hour time limit, Sciullo won $400, three T-shirts, a certificate “and a burger hangover, as I call it,” Liegey said.
Ever try to print a page from a website and come up three or four pages of unusable garbage, such as the footer (which you don’t care about) appearing by itself on page three and the navigation or banner ads
Ever find yourself in the middle of a recipe and find yourself out of an herb or spice in your kitchen? Fear not, for here is a handy list of close substitutions of herbs and spices that should get you
Just in time for Halloween! Ever wanted to know how to create goopy, green slime? Here’s a tutorial on how to make fake snot. MWAAHAHAHAA! (me attempting evil-sounding laugh)
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