salsas, seasonings & spices

Pace Triple Pepper Salsa Review

Pace has a new line of jarred salsas out. Triple Pepper Salsa, Pico de Gallo, Salsa Verde, and a Mexican Four Cheese Salsa con Queso. The first one I tried is their Triple Pepper Salsa, featuring green chili, serrano and guajillo peppers. Now, I’m not a big fan of jarred salsas. Most usually taste… well, [...]

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Compare Jerk Seasoning – A review of 4 jerk products

We rubbed some chicken thighs with 4 different jerk seasonings to see how they compare, then grilled them to jerk-perfection! Here are the players: Neera’s Hot Jamaican Jerk Spice Grilling Paste Pickapeppa Hot Spicy Jerk Seasoning Walkerswood Traditional Jamaican Jerk Seasoning McCormick Jamaican Jerk Seasoning – Not tasted McCormick Caribbean Jerk Seasoning Sweet & Spicy [...]

Tagged as: caribbean, jamaican, jerk, mccormick, neeras, pastes, pickapeppa, rubs, seasonings, walkerswood

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Ribs with Powderpuff Rib Rub (Celery Salt, Paprika, Garlic flakes) – recipe

Celery, paprika, garlic in a rib rub equals sweet, spicy heaven on a bone! We seasoned our ribs with the Powderpuff BBQ team’s rib rub recipe, braised them in the oven with a Cider Squirt basting sauce, and finished them off with Bone Suckin’ BBQ sauce. The Bone Suckin’ Sauce is very thin, so it’s [...]

Tagged as: bbq, celery salt, dry mustard, garlic, paprika, ribs, rub

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Bone Suckin’ Sauce – BBQ

Bone Suckin’ Sauces are all natural, fat free, gluten free, and NO high fructose corn syrup. This is my new BBQ friend… I love this stuff. We made our Powderpuff Rub Ribs with Bone Suckin’ Original sauce. A nice, thin sauce that makes a great finishing glaze on your ribs or chicken. They also make [...]

Tagged as: bbq, bbq sauce, bone suckin, glaze, hot, marinade

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Hot Sriracha Garlic Chicken Wings

Sriracha HOT chili sauce, crispy chicken wings, and tons of garlic, make these spicy wings the *best* chicken wings we’ve ever cooked! The wings are marinated in olive oil & spices, then baked for 30 mins. before being deep-fried to finish cooking, and get their wonderfully crispy skin. Then, you toss them in the Sriracha, [...]

Tagged as: garlic, hot, marinade, spicy, sriracha, wings

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Marco’s Not Yet Famous Salsa

I found Marco’s on The Hot Pepper forums. Since these products are made in Maryland, I was anxious to try them out! Wifey stopped into M.O.M.’s in Frederick, MD, and got us a bunch of Marco’s products. This salsa is the first we have tried. This is “Marco’s Not Yet Famous Roasted Vegetable Salsa – [...]

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Walkerswood Jamaican Jerk Seasoning

This jerk seasoning is a thick paste that you rub on chicken, pork, shrimp, fish or veggies. It’s best used as a marinade. As I tasted it from the jar, it’s quite salty, but I’m hoping that subsides after marinating overnight, and after cooking. My initial reaction is that the flavor is not as good [...]

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Mega’s Smoky Chipotle Salsa

This is my “go to” salsa… smoky, hot and sweet. What’s not to like? Heat level: med-hot Ingredients: 1/4 cup plus 1 T extra virgin olive oil 1/2 lrg or 1 med yellow sweet onion, chopped 1 28oz can Muir Glen Organic Fire Roasted Tomatoes (diced or whole)* 1 head roasted garlic**, minced 1/2 cup [...]

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