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What’s Cookin’ Wednesday: Spicy Black Bean Salad

Craig Sharry | September 29, 2010
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whatscookinwednesday Black beans are one of my husband’s favorite foods, and when I told him I was going to serve him Spicy Black Bean Salad, he was ecstatic, sight unseen!

After supper he was even happier. Spicy Black Bean Salad was a definite hit at our dinner table.

Ingredients:

2 16-ounce cans black beans, drained and rinsed (always rinse canned beans!)

1 green pepper, cut into thin strips

1 red pepper, cut into thin strips

1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley

1 large onion, chopped

1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese

1/2 cup of pretty much any kind of Texas Pepper Jelly product! I divided the salad into four parts tonight and used Apple Cherry Rib Candy, Pineapple Habanero, Berry Medley Habanero, and Raspberry Habanero, each flavor on its own batch of salad. Tim ate most of each batch, and said it was impossible to choose a favorite because they were all delicious.

I liked the batch with Rib Candy best, and both kids liked the Pineapple Habanero batch best.

In other words, Spicy Black Bean Salad was a big hit here. Why don’t you try it and let us know what your family thinks?

In fact, take a picture and enter our Texas Heat Contest!

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Monday Munchies: Spicy Crunchy Slaw

Craig Sharry | September 27, 2010
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mondaymunchies Oh, yeah, Spicy Crunchy Slaw is awesome!

Ingredients:

16-ounce bag shredded coleslaw cabbage (Or, you can buy a head of cabbage and shred it yourself.)

2/3 cup dried cranberries

1/4 cup toasted slivered almonds

1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice

2/3 cup Texas Pepper Jelly, any flavor

Option: add fruit associated with whichever pepper jelly you are using

What to do:

In a large bowl, combine all ingredients and mix thoroughly. Serve immediately or cover and refrigerate until it’s dinnertime.

Yummy.

P.S. Don’t forget the Texas Pepper Jelly “Sweet Heat” Contest!

Category: Monday Munchies, Spicy salads, Texas Cookin' Tips, Texas Pepper Jelly, Texas Pepper Jelly contest, Texas Tips, TPJ Recipes |

A Feast of Fridays: Apple Cinnamon Sweet Potatoes

Craig Sharry | September 24, 2010
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feastoffridays Texas Rib Candy, our newest product, is every bit as versatile as our Texas Pepper Jellies!

This recipe for Apple Cinnamon Sweet Potatoes is about to be your family’s favorite spicy side dish. Guaranteed.

Ingredients:

4 large sweet potatoes, peeled and sliced applecinsm
1 large Granny Smith apple, peeled and cubed
1 1/2 cups Apple Cinnamon Rib Candy

What to do:

Put the sweet potatoes in a casserole dish and microwave them until tender.
Add the cubed apples and Rib Candy.
Return to microwave and cook for about eight minutes on 70% power until hot throughout. The apples can be tender or still crisp; let your family’s preferences decide. My kids like the apples crisp; they love the contrast with the tender sweet potatoes.

Put the bottle of Rib Candy on the table; sometimes, people want to add more. 🙂

This is one of the simplest side dishes imaginable! It’s also one of the most delicious you’ll ever put on our table.

We’re having it with our Thanksgiving dinner, too. I always make a sweet potato dish for the holiday, and this one is the best sweet potato side we’ve ever had on the table. So almost unbelievably simple.

The kids want me to make it with Apple Cherry Habanero Rib Candy next time, and add some halved cherries to the mix. Sounds good to me, too!

P.S. Don’t forget the Texas Pepper Jelly “Sweet Heat” Contest!

Category: Feast of Fridays, Spicy side dishes, Super Easy Party Recipes, Ten Minute Meals, Texas Cookin' Tips, Texas grilling sauces, Texas Pepper Jelly, Texas Pepper Jelly contest, Texas Rib Candy, Texas Tips, TPJ Company dinners, TPJ Recipes, TPJ Sauces and Salsas |

Texas Sweet Heat Contest!

Craig Sharry | September 22, 2010
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Straight from the Texas Pepper Jelly Newsletter:

texaspepperjellytipsSummer was in full swing down here as we launched our newest product, Texas Rib Candy. I’ll be honest, I was expecting to keep busy by selling a few bottles, but I had no idea how fast this stuff would take off. It’s absolutely FLYING off the shelves! The greatest part of it all is the overwhelming positive feedback I’m receiving from the Rib Candy. It seems like every day someone shares with us a newly discovered use for the sauce, which gave me an idea.

As an end of summer salute, I would like to introduce the Texas Rib Candy “Sweet Heat” contest! Show us how YOU use Texas Rib Candy by submitting a photo of the sauce used with your favorite dish! We’d love to see your variation and share it with the rest of world. Send a pic of your fired-up pit with the sweet glaze of the Rib Candy being drizzled over the top. Snap a shot of your little one having a nighttime snack of ice cream and Rib Candy topping. Capture mom dunking her chicken tenders. I’ve even heard of it being used on pancakes! The possibilities are endless, and we just want to know…how creative can YOU get? The winner of the TRC Sweet Heat contest will win a six pack of Rib Candy!

Submitting your photos is a snap! Become a fan of Texas Rib Candy on Facebook and upload your pic onto our wall. The photo with the most “likes” by October 15th will be the lucky winner of our prize package! Not on Facebook? Not a problem! Send your picture to our marketing department and put “Sweet Heat” in the subject line!

Don’t forget, Texas Rib Candy comes in three Habanero flavors: apple, apple cherry, and mango. We didn’t stop there though. We now truly offer something for everyone, even our fans with a delicate palate. Texas Rib Candy can now be ordered WITHOUT peppers. That’s right, we’ll ship you the sweet without the heat! Order now, though, because the heat-free Rib Candy is a promo offer and might not last long!

If this is your first time ordering, I’d like to extend my sincerest thanks for trying our product. I must clue you in on something that the rest of us already know, though. This stuff goes fast. Once you discover the versatility of Texas Rib Candy, it’ll be gone before you know it! Save time and money by ordering Rib Candy in a convenient six pack. You’ll cut costs on shipping and always be armed with backup as you face that terribly lonely last drop in the bottle.

Until next time,

–Craig Sharry

P.S. If you haven’t signed up for our free Texas Pepper Jelly newsletter yet, what are you waiting for?

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Texas Rib Candy: It’s Dessert for Your Grill

Craig Sharry | September 20, 2010
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ribcandysm We here at Texas Pepper Jelly are just simply delighted by the way our newest product, Texas Rib Candy, is flying off the shelves!

All three flavors seem to be equally popular: Apple Habanero, Apple Cherry Habanero, and Mango Habanero. Oh, and for those who’d rather have their Rib Candy without the peppers, we have two awesome sauces for you: the popular Apple Cinnamon, and the equally popular pepperless Rib Candy.

In other words, Texas Pepper Jelly wants to accommodate you all – or, as we say in Texas, “y’all.” Rib Candy is perfect for those of you who love the kick of habanero, and Rib Candy is also perfect for those of you who prefer their sauces without the heat.

As for my family. . . we’re working on a bottle of Apple Cherry Habanero right now (there’s about an inch left in the bottle) and I’ve ordered a bottle of the heat-free Rib Candy for my mother, because her ulcers can’t “take” the heat. 🙂

Rib Candy. It’s dessert for your grill. Seriously. Oh, and don’t think it’s JUST for ribs; it’s equally awesome on chicken, pork, beef, veal. . . heck, it would probably make your frog legs and grilled camel taste fantastic, too.

My kids were here today. We didn’t cook out, but I hid the remains of our Rib Candy behind the milk, just in case. When it comes to Texas Rib Candy, I don’t trust anybody to keep his or her hands off it.

By the way, if you haven’t already done so, we’d be proud to have you follow us on Twitter and Facebook!

Category: BBQ, Monday Munchies, Texas Cookin' Tips, Texas grilling sauces, Texas Pepper Jelly, Texas Rib Candy, Texas Tips, TPJ Recipes, TPJ Sauces and Salsas |

A Feast of Fridays: Fresh Fruit Habanero

Craig Sharry | September 17, 2010
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feastoffridays There are only a few days of summer left, so I’m busy creating as many “summerish” foods as possible for my family, which is in total denial about summer’s end. (September 22 is the first day of Autumn!)

So, today I opened the freezer and got out a large freezer bag of blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, and peach slices. Yes, we did a lot of berry-picking this summer, and the local orchard had a bumper crop of peaches! The freezer is full of summery delights.

I put all the frozen berries in a large glass bowl, added a jar of mandarin oranges, and emptied a jar of Texas Mandarin Orange Habanero Pepper Jelly into it. The pepper jelly froze when it was mixed with the frozen fruit, but as I let the bowl sit out and thaw, the pepper jelly sort of melted into the fruit, saturating each berry and slice with mandarin orange habanero goodness.

Served in little bowls, with a dollop of whipped cream on top, this is a dessert or snack fit for a king. And at the end of a long difficult hot day, it’s perfection, and a reminder of hot mid-summer days in the berry fields and peach orchards.

We had hard work for dessert. And nobody knows about the two servings I hid behind the lettuce in the crisper drawer. Tomorrow night, I’m feasting on it again!

Category: Feast of Fridays, Spicy desserts, Spicy salads, Super Easy Party Recipes, Texas Cookin' Tips, Texas Pepper Jelly, Texas Tips, TPJ Rubs and Spices, TPJ Snacks |

What’s Cookin’ Wednesday: Who Stole My Leftovers?

Craig Sharry | September 15, 2010
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whatscookinwednesday We had a cookout Sunday night and the combination of perfect weather, good company, extra-lean hamburger, and Rib Candy made it quite memorable. After everybody had eaten his/her fill and gone home, we realized that there were three hamburgers left over. I put them in the freezer, secretly plotting to bend them to my will later this week.

Well, tonight was the night. All day I talked about nouns and pronouns and verbs and interjections and writing a good, solid paragraph, but in my head I was opening the freezer door, putting one of those hamburger patties in the microwave, dousing it with Texas Rib Candy, and devouring it. ALL DAY I thought about it. All day. Sigh.

When I got home, Tim was dozing in his big chair. I tiptoed into the kitchen, reached into the freezer, and put my hand on. . . . frozen peas. WHAT? That’s right. The hamburgers were gone. My husband, who got home a few hours before I did, had found them, nuked them in the microwave, and eaten them. All three of them.

My only consolation was that he hadn’t found the leftover baked beans.

Next time, I’m taking Erma Bombeck’s advice about hiding the good stuff in the freezer, wrapping them in foil, and labeling them “chicken fat.” She says nobody will bother a frozen package labeled “chicken fat.” She might be right.

I tried it once before with Hershey bars, and they were still there when I looked for them later. And as far as I’m concerned, anything covered with Texas Rib Candy is every bit as desirable as chocolate.

Category: BBQ, Spicy sandwiches, Texas Cookin' Tips, Texas grilling sauces, Texas Pepper Jelly, Texas Rib Candy, Texas Tips, TPJ Sauces and Salsas, What's Cookin' Wednesday |

Monday Munchies: Rib Candy Cookout

Craig Sharry | September 13, 2010
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DSCF5100 Whenever the weather’s been fine, we’ve tried to have a cookout at least once a week, usually on Sunday. And now that we’ve discovered Texas Rib Candy, it’s become a necessary, absolutely must-have part of all our cookouts.

Last night, we just grilled hamburgers and hot dogs, but Rib Candy is good on any kind of meat. I put some in the baked beans along with the Texas Pepper Jelly, and the beans were better than ever. Really, the only thing I don’t put Rib Candy on is corn on the cob, and my kids do even that.

Actually, corn on the cob with Rib Candy is better for them than the usual butter-ribcandysmand-salt, because Rib Candy has no salt in it, just natural ingredients.

In case you’re wondering, our deck isn’t usually this messy. Tim was embarrassed, but I’m posting the picture anyway, because I like it. When I look at it, I think “Let’s stop cleaning the yard and deck for a while and have another cookout before the weather turns cold,” and I don’t mind the mess then, a bit.

Besides, we need to use up all the leftover pepper jellies and BBQ sauce so we can feel justified in ordering another huge batch for the autumn cookouts!

Oh, there are all kinds of BBQ sauces in the stores, of course, but none of them can hold a candle to Craig’s BBQCraig's BBQ Sauce sauce. It’s so delicious – there’s no comparison to any other brand. They lose. Craig’s BBQ sauce wins. Every single time. Our guests are nuts about it. Our kids won’t eat any other kind. Tim will, but he complains if it isn’t Craig’s. And now that we know about Craig’s BBQ Sauce, there won’t ever BE any other kind of barbecue sauce in our house. Or in our yard.

Category: BBQ, Monday Munchies, Texas Cookin' Tips, Texas grilling sauces, Texas Pepper Jelly, Texas Rib Candy, Texas Tips, TPJ Recipes, TPJ Sauces and Salsas |

A Feast of Fridays: Rib Candy and Hot Cakes!

Craig Sharry | September 10, 2010
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feastoffridays I’m a bit of a lunch person myself, but everyone else in my family is definitely a breakfast person. They’ll eat breakfast for breakfast, breakfast for lunch, breakfast for dinner, and breakfast for a midnight snack. Pancakes, bacon, toast, eggs, biscuits. . . . if it’s a breakfast food, my husband and kids love it.

And now they’ve combined their favorite meal with their new favorite sauce, because ribcandysmthere aren’t many foods my kids and husband haven’t tried with Texas Rib Candy. They’re pouring Rib Candy over their food; they’re dipping their food into the Texas Rib Candy; they’re basting their food with Texas Rib Candy on the grill, in the oven, and on the stovetop. I guess you could say we’ve got a winner.

pancakesandribcandyAnd now, for two days in a row, they’ve used Texas Rib Candy on their pancakes. Melted butter and Rib Candy, both melting on hotcakes. This weekend, the kids plan to pour Rib Candy on their toaster waffles.

So okay, Big Boss Craig Sharry, you’ve got another winner. Texas Rib Candy is a huge hit in this house!

Category: Craig Sharry, Feast of Fridays, Spicy breakfasts, Texas breakfast recipes, Texas Cookin' Tips, Texas grilling sauces, Texas Pepper Jelly, Texas Rib Candy, Texas Tips, TPJ Recipes, TPJ Sauces and Salsas |

What’s Cookin’ Wednesday: Pepper Jelly for Breakfast

Craig Sharry | September 8, 2010
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whatscookinwednesday Once again, I’ll say that often it’s the simplest things that are the best, or, in the case of Texas Pepper Jelly, the tastiest.

For breakfast this morning, we’re having scrambled eggs and bagels with pepper jelly.

That’s all. That’s enough. None of us can seem to get enough of those bagels with pepper jelly. I set out several different flavors, and when the bagels pop up from the toaster all hot and, well, toasty, and the pepper jelly is spread over them to melt and run all down the plate and then the hand and chin of the lucky bagel-owner, who could ask for anything more?

Maybe something to drink, that’s all. One of us had coffee, two of us had orange juice, and one of us had Diet Coke.

The Diet Coke drinker was me. True confessions.

Category: Spicy breakfasts, Spicy main dishes, Texas breakfast recipes, Texas Cookin' Tips, Texas Pepper Jelly, Texas Tips, TPJ Recipes, What's Cookin' Wednesday |
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