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Clean Out Fridge Means Goodbye Old Friends

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  It’s hard to throw out old sauces We cleaned out the fridge to make room for any new sauces that we’d be opening soon, and found bottles of stuff that was over 6 years old. There was even a bottle of smoked, dried tomatoes in olive oil that was at least 7 years old. [...]

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BBQ Grills and Equipment Used at HotSauceDaily.com

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  Love the Weber Products Currently, I’m only using Weber products and I’m strictly a charcoal guy for now. The Kettle Grills My main grill is the Weber 22.5″ One Touch Gold Kettle grill. That’s the “Blue Devil” pictured above. It’s a classic, and the Gold version includes the no rust aluminum removable ash catcher. [...]

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Hot Sauce & Chile Pepper Aprons

  Guys & Gals, Valentine’s Day is coming and these HOT Aprons make great gifts! [singlepic id=213 w=320 h=240 float=right] Irene Shurson of All Occasion Aprons (http://alloccasionaprons.com) makes aprons adorned with Hot Sauce Bottles, Chile Peppers, or Flames. She also has aprons with a Cow motif, a Cajun motif and Sunflowers, among many others. Made [...]

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Recipe For Homemade Pita Chips From Pita Bread

  These Homemade Pita Chips are so easy to make Great for spicy chile dips, veggie dips, or for just taste-testing hot sauces, these are our go to chips when we just want a plain dipping chip for sauces etc. Simply take a round of Pita bread and slice it into 6ths or 8ths (depending [...]

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Scovie Awards 2009 Winners Announced

  The Scovie Awards Winners for 2009 were announced recently by Fiery-Foods.com Setting the Standard for Spicy Food & BBQ, the annual Scovie Awards Competition recognizes top fiery foods and BBQ products from around the globe. (fiery-foods.com) November 8th, 2008: The 2009 Scovie Awards winners. I know I’m a week late on this, but I really [...]

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Food Podcasts That Get Me Through the Day

  Here’s a list of Food Podcasts I listen to daily/weekly. I’m lucky to be able to listen to many hours of podcasts on my job, so here’s a list of the food related podcasts I enjoy. I also listen to tech podcasts and a few comedy podcasts. I’ll list them in a later post.  [...]

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Reading About Food in the Wednesday Newspapers

  It’s Wednesday, my favorite day to read about food in the newspapers. The Baltimore Sun Taste Section comes out today, as well as the NY Times Dining Out section.

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Heat Taco Shells That Don’t Collapse

  Arrange your taco shells like this, so they don’t collapse while heating. Seems kinda trivial or silly, but this really works! By interlocking 4 shells, like you would fold a cardboard box, they each hold the next one open – the shells don’t collapse. This makes them much easier to fill with all your [...]

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OXO Good Grips Angled Measuring Cups

  These angled measuring cups are great! You can clearly see what you are measuring by simply looking down at the angled measurement marks, no need to lift the cup up into the air. Much more accurate this way.

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Wine Bottle Pepper Grinder

  This wine bottle pepper grinder not only looks great, but it’s our best grinder as well. Featuring a stainless steel grinding mechanism, it adjusts easily from fine to coarse with the knurled top. It’s made by Chef Specialties Co in Smethport, PA. Purchased from and custom engraved by totalengraving.com. (See update below.) I have [...]

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