Craig Sharry, the Texas Pepper Jelly Boss Man Supreme Himself, shares some tips and hints for awesome barbecuing in this fascinating TV interview! Take notes, y’all, because the man knows his stuff and can tell you how to end up with the perfect barbecued meal!
Peach Pie, Texas Style!
Warm weather is here – well, most days, anyway – and it won’t be long until the peaches are ripe and it will be PIE TIME.
Adding a little Peach Habanero pepper jelly to your basic peach pie recipe will pep up your pie and make a difference your family and friends will LOVE.
Ingredients:
double pie crust – make it or buy it; your family won’t care
two large cans of sliced peaches, thoroughly drained, OR, four cups fresh peaches, peeled and sliced
1 cup sugar (I use Splenda)
1/4 cup Peach Habanero pepper jelly (yum)
Tiny dash of cinnamon
pat of butter
What to do:
Line a pie pan with half the crust. Cover with everything except the butter. Spread out smoothly, and put the butter pat on the very top. Cover with top crust.
Pierce the top crust in several places so your boiling pie filling can vent. I always cut a pine tree in mine, with a “TP” in the middle, so my family will know ’tis peach.
Bake in a 425 degree oven for 20 minutes; then reduce tempt to 325 and bake for another 40 minutes or until peaches are done. If you used canned peaches, you can start checking for “doneness” after a half hour.
Serve hot or cold. It’s delicious.
To stay on the safe side, you might want to make two pies. It will save a lot of bickering later one. 🙂
Shrimp and Pepper Jelly? Delicious!
Oh, I’ve said this so many times, but it bears saying again: so often, the simplest recipes are the best!
Shrimp are delicious, and always a hit with both family and guests. Seafood sauce is good, but it isn’t the only sauce that goes well with shrimp.
No matter what kind of shrimp you serve – boiled, grilled, fried, whatever! – there is just nothing so good as that shrimp dipped in Texas Pepper Jelly or Rib Candy.
In fact, I often buy a bag of cooked, frozen shrimp, lay it out over ice in a punch bowl, and just set out little bowls of every kind of pepper jelly – and one bowl with Rib Candy – that’s in my refrigerator, and stand back.
If you’re grilling the shrimp, pepper jelly and Rib Candy make for some fabulous marinade!
Every single time I serve shrimp and pepper jelly, I get compliments. It’s just simply delicious.
DELICIOUS. Shrimp and Texas Pepper Jelly. Shrimp and Rib Candy.
Plain old seafood sauce can’t even begin to compete.
Grilled Salmon with Pepper Jelly Glaze
We had a big family reunion on Mother’s Day, and my sister and brother-in-law grilled a huge salmon for us. Salmon is one of our mother’s favorite foods, and since it was her day, we wanted everything to be exactly to her liking.
I brought homemade bread, a pan of persimmon pudding, and a jar of Pineapple Habanero pepper jelly I had intended to use it on the cream cheese, as a dip, but my brother-in-law’s face lit up like a lighthouse when he saw it, and he pretty much grabbed it out of my hand and used it as a glaze for the salmon.
It was absolutely delicious. Mike just brushed the Pineapple Habanero pepper jelly all over the slab of salmon and closed the grill’s lid. It smelled so good, the neighbors came out onto their porch and called out to us that they envied us our cookout menu!
More generous people than us might have invited them over to share, but we were all mesmerized by that aroma and weren’t about to share.
There were, as usual with a Texas Pepper Jelly product, no leftovers whatsoever. That salmon was inhaled before it was even cool enough to eat safely.
I highly recommend Pineapple Habanero pepper jelly for any purpose – on Sunday, we used it as a marinade-glaze for a slab of salmon. None of us will ever cook salmon without it again.
New Product: Texas Pepper Jelly Now Has Apricot Habanero Pepper Jelly!
Good news for summer cooking – Texas Pepper Jelly has a new flavor!
I’m really excited, too, because apricot jam is my family’s favorite, and now that we can get it with that master touch of habanero, our sandwiches, dips, and other favorites are really going to be kicked up a notch.
I am already thinking about making some cocktail meatballs for the weekend. I have a recipe for a quick and easy sauce using pretty much any kind of jelly or jam, and Texas Pepper Jelly’s apricot habanero is going to make my good ol’ tried-and-true cocktail sauce
into a real treat.
Here’s how I do it:
Ingredients:
1/2 cup Texas Pepper Jelly’s apricot habanero
3 cups bottled barbecue sauce
1/4 cup diced onion
1/4 cup diced green or red pepper, or both
Mix it all together and pour it into your crock pot. Add the meatballs or cocktail sausages or little wieners or shredded beef or pork or pretty much whatever kind of meat your family likes. Mixing the sausages and wieners together makes for a good dish, too.
Let your crockpot simmer for several hours and serve.
Mmm, Apricot Habanero pepper jelly. Thank you, Texas Pepper Jelly!
Brand-New at Texas Pepper Jelly: Butcher BBQ Brisket Injections. AT LAST!
Craig Sharry, the Texas Pepper Jelly CEO, is one of the highest-ranked BBQ prize-winners in the world, and he’s letting the rest of us share in some of his secrets!
Brand-new at Texas Pepper Jelly, Craig’s Butcher BBQ Brisket Injection is now available to the rest of us! Barbecue judges have, several times, chosen Craig’s brisket injections over everybody else’s recipes in many competitions, and it’s pretty much a sure thing that your family and friends are going to be just as crazy about them!
Everything you need – except the brisket itself! – can be found right here on Texas Pepper Jelly’s newest page. Don’t forget the needles; they make the injections a lot easier.
Oh, and by the way: you can mix Craig’s Butcher BBQ Brisket Injections with pretty much any liquid you choose. And, those choices are endless!
Mmmmmm, the very thought of Craig Sharry’s own prize-winning briskets in my own kitchen are almost enough to make me swoon!
Monday Munchies: An Old Favorite, But New To My Guests!
My box of Texas Pepper Jelly arrived while my Gulf Coast cousins were visiting, and I was thrilled! I knew they liked spicy foods, and I knew that one of my cousins actually made her own pepper jelly, and I was positive they would both agree that Texas Pepper Jelly was the best EVER.
And, I was right!
They were with me when the box arrived, and we brought it into the house immediately, and they passed the jars around, commenting on how pretty the pepper jelly looked in the sunlight. “It’s more than just pretty,” I told them.
So, I got out a brick of cream cheese, cut it into four chunks (I was in a hurry to show off the Texas Pepper Jelly) and poured a little pepper jelly over each piece of cream cheese. I opened a box of Ritz crackers and some wheat thins, and we all jumped in.
My daughter arrived in the middle of this pepper jelly orgy and I could tell by the look on her face that she was thinking, “you got more pepper jelly and didn’t tell me!”
We shared with her.
Four people literally licked that tray clean. My daughter hinted broadly that she would like to take home the opened jars, but this time I put my foot down and kept them.
I am serious when I tell you all that Texas Pepper Jelly is the best pepper jelly on the face of the earth. People from the Gulf Coast, who made their own, agreed: nothing they had ever made or bought in Mississippi held a candle to Texas Pepper Jelly.
Guess what we had for lunch when we returned from the airport today. . . . . peanut butter and pepper jelly sandwiches. And Fritos, which are pretty darn good dipped in Pepper Jelly, too.
We might be addicted to Texas Pepper Jelly. Then again, when I think about it, there’s probably no “maybe” about it. Texas Pepper Jelly has become a staple in our home.

