Craig’s BBQ Sauce: None Better!
Boy, is it ever hot outdoors! This is the hottest, wettest July in many people’s memories! It can’t rain every day, though, and some of those clear, sunny days will be perfect for a cookout!
No cookout is complete without some good barbecue, and nothing makes a barbecue good like Craig’s BBQ Sauce.
This is the best barbecue sauce you’ll ever taste.
Craig’s BBQ Sauce will turn your barbecue into an EVENT, not just a meal. Whether it’s just family, or extended family, or family and friends, Craig’s BBQ Sauce with your food will put a smile on every face in your back yard.
Hamburgers, hot dogs, chops, steaks, ribs. . . Craig’s BBQ Sauce makes EVERYTHING ON YOUR GRILL better. Order some today!
Buy it by the gallon!
You’ll be wanting more of our barbecue sauce, so why not save yourself some time by purchasing it by the gallon? You’ll be glad you did. Craig’s BBQ Sauce is something you won’t want to run out of.
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Tags: back yard, barbecue sauce, bbq sauce, cookout, Craig's BBQ Sauce, event, gallon, grill, meal
Texas Pepper Jelly Recommends Snake River Farms Meats!
Our products here at Texas Pepper Jelly are the best – the very best – and to make the most of the very best grilling products, why not use the very best meats for grilling? We highly recommend the meat from Snake River Farms.
Snake River Farms filet megnon!
As you no doubt already know, filet mignon is just about the tenderest, most flavorful cut of beef anyone can buy today, and we’ve not found any filet mignon better than Snake River Farms filet mignon.
All of their cuts are wonderful, but the filet mignon is to die for!
Well, except that you won’t want to die – you’ll want to live forever and eat Snake River Farms filet mignon every day. As often as possible, anyway.
Each steak is expertly aged and hand-cut by an expert. Your steaks will ship frozen and arrive chilled or partially frozen – in other words, ready to throw on that grill!
Just click the photograph of the filet mignon up there and you’ll be taken to the order form page.
Best filet mignon on the planet. Seriously.
In fact, Snake River Farms has several different cuts of beef, all perfection-on-a-grill! Try them all! http://texaspepperjelly.com/grilling-meats/
Some Tips for a Safe July 4th Cookout!
Are you getting ready for those July 4th cookouts? There are several things you can do to make the Independence Day cookout run smoothly.
Go ahead and buy the hamburger, make it into patties, and freeze them, with a piece of waxed paper between each patty. Frozen hamburger patties are easier and handier to grill, and the meat isn’t as likely to fall through the grate and be wasted. Frozen hot dogs do better on a grill, too. (Put your pile of separated-by-waxed-paper patties in a freezer bag. Just a little push with a spatula will separate them easily!)
That little piece of waxed paper in between each patty will make a world of difference on cookout day!
We like to mix our fresh hamburger with some Texas Pepper Jelly and VERY finely ground bread crumbs – talk about tasty!
The day before your cookout, even if you’ve already scrubbed down your grill this season, do it again, and be VERY careful to wash and rinse off all traces of metal brush bristles. Not getting all of those off the grate can mean a tragedy, so be really carefully, clean your grill thoroughly, soap with a sponge after you scrape, rinse, soap it again, and rinse again. Run your hands all over it when you think you’re finished; it’s better to run a splinter into your finger than to get one in your throat! After you’re absolutely sure the grill is clean, let it sit out in the sun for several hours – that’s why you should clean it AT LEAST the day before – before you fire it up for the Glorious Fourth.
You don’t want any of these in your food!
If you plan on some fireworks in the same area you plan on eating, don’t. Stray sparks and ashes can turn your food into a not-so-tasty treat, and can turn napkins, paper towels, clothing, and hair into bonfires.
I hope you’ve got a good supply of Texas Pepper Jelly products on hand for your cookout – no holiday cookout is complete without them!
A little planning and your July 4th cookout will be a wonderful, memorable experience that friends and family – and YOU – will enjoy and remember all the rest of the year!
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Tags: fireworks, grill bristles, grill brushes, grilling safety, grilling tips, July 4th, safety tips, Texas Pepper Jelly, Texas Tips
No Treat Could Be Simpler, or More Delicious!
We mention this on our blog a lot, but it’s still true, that often the simplest recipes are the best!
Now that the hot summer weather is here to stay, here is a recipe that couldn’t be simpler, nor could it be more delicious!
My kids call this Rapsberry Delight, but your family might have other ideas, all of them referring to something so good, there really isn’t a name descriptive enough to do it justice!
Did I mention that it’s super simple?
Here’s how to do it:
Ingredients:
2 cups fresh raspberries, washed and patted dry
1 2-oz jar of Raspberry Habanero Pepper Jelly
What to do:
Put the berries in a bowl and add the pepper jelly. Mix well.
Now you can spread it on toast, bread, rolls, etc.
Now you can put the mixture in popsicle molds, freeze them, and give your kids (of all ages) a hot-weather treat like no other!
Now you can put it on ice cream.
The options are endless!
My kids like to eat this out of a bowl, with a spoon, after it’s been thoroughly chilled. My husband likes to do the same, only he prefers his at room temperature. I like mine on hot toast, or over ice cream.
You can create this with all of our pepper jelly flavors and their respective fresh fruits. You can mix them up, too. When fresh peach season is here, my husband will not be fit to live with. He’s already talking a about fresh peaches mixed with Peach Habanero pepper jelly.
There’s Plenty of Time to Order from Texas Pepper Jelly for Father’s Day!
Father’s Day 2015 is Sunday, June 21, and there’s still plenty of time to order a gift for the men in your life that he/they will genuinely like and appreciate!
The gift packages from Texas Pepper Jelly are unique in many ways – not only are they absolutely delicious and nutritious, but the selection of flavors is entirely up to YOU, not us!
Most businesses prefer to pre-package multi-packs of their products, but here at Texas Pepper Jelly, we feel that the proper person to choose flavors is YOU. And so, it’s up to you to choose your flavors!
Our six-pack of Texas Rib Candy is one of our best-selling products, and with the six bottles of Rib Candy you will receive, you may choose any of our delicious flavors. Choose all six bottles to be the same flavor, if that’s what you want. Choose six different flavors. Choose two of each flavor. Choose three of one and three of another. I’m no mathematician, but I know there are many more flavor combinations available, at your personal discretion.
Texas Rib Candy Six Pack and Messermeister Knife!
We’re well into the season of grilling out, and our Texas Rib Candy assortments are the perfect gift for all who love to cook outdoors. The wonderful, razor-sharp Messermeister knife that comes with this assortment is great for your cookout, too. You’ll have no problem trimming steaks, slicing tenderloins, separating ribs, even cutting vegetables for salad, etc, with this knife!
Oh, and after you get all those vegetables cut up and tossed, toss some Texas Pepper Jelly (any flavor!) in with your salad dressing for a delicious, spicy treat! It’ll really “dress up” your salad!
Father’s Day Perfection!
The next holiday up is Father’s Day, and I have some suggestions for all of you.
First of all, your father has enough socks, ties, and coffee mugs.
Secondly, your father loves food.
In my own family, all the men (all the women, too, but we’re talking about the men here. . . .) ahem, all the men love Texas Pepper Jelly products. I give Texas Pepper Jelly products to my brothers-in-law, my uncles, my husband, and my son for Christmas, for birthdays, and I make sure I’ve got plenty on hand in my own house whenever any of them are coming over.
I think you should all give the men in your life a mixed case of Texas Pepper Jelly for Father’s Day!
Here it is: the best Father’s Day gift of all!
I suggest that you click on the above picture and order a mixed case of Texas Pepper Jelly today. You’ll get it before Father’s Day!
Oh, and did you know that Texas Pepper Jelly is one of the only companies that allows you, the treasured customer, to choose your mixed case flavors? You can order a case of all one flavor. You can order six different flavors. You can order one of your own favorite and the rest your dad’s favorites. Any combination of any of our flavors in one mixed case delight for Father’s Day.
You’ll not find a gift a man in your life will like better for Father’s Day or any other day. Texas Pepper Jelly products are superior to all others. Always fresh, always delicious, and always delivered on time.
What better way to wish a man in your life a happy Father’s Day?
Texas Sausage Dip
Winter’s over, but don’t put your crockpot away. Hot weather is perfect crockpot weather – slow cookers don’t heat up the whole house, and the absolute handiness of a meal or snack or side ready to put on the table when everybody gets home is just too handy to pass by.
This particular recipe is for our special Texas Sausage Dip, and it’s delicious. Easy to make, too. Here’s how:
Ingredients:
16 oz sour cream
8 oz cream cheese
1 cup cooked finely diced sausage
1 large onion, diced
1/4 cup Texas Pepper Jelly’s Pineapple Habanero pepper jelly
1/4 cup shredded pineapple, drained
1/4 cup hot sauce
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
What to do:
Put everything in your crockpot, replace the lid, set the dial to “low,” and go to work. Eight or so hours later, remove the lid and stir to make sure all ingredients are absolutely thoroughly blended. turn off the crockpot and let it “set” for an hour or two.
After dinner, pour the dip into a big bowl, surround it with breadsticks, raw veggies, and crackers of all kinds, put it on the coffee table, and let your family go to it while they watch TV.
Best dip EVER.
If there’s a football game or any kind of sports event on TV, even better.
I hope you laid in plenty of these ingredients in your pantry and refrigerator, because everybody will want a fresh batch the next night. They can’t have the leftovers because there won’t be any.
A Texas Kind of Sloppy Joe!
The weather outside today was bright and breezy. I didn’t want to fix a heavy complicated meal, so I thought I’d prepare one of my mainstays, which is also one of my children’s favorites, which they have, since childhood, called Sloppy Pepper Joes.
This is actually just regular sloppy joes, but with an assortment of peppers added to the meat. These added peppers make an incredible difference in what was a very ordinary dish. Add the peppers and it’s ordinary no more.
I go one step further, in fact. To the mixture of meat, onions, and peppers, I add some Craig’s BBQ Sauce instead of mere ketchup or tomato sauce.
My kids have told me many times that the first appearance of Sloppy Pepper Joes on the table is one of their signals that it’s really spring. I hadn’t noticed that I never served this in winter, but apparently I don’t.
This is technically a sandwich, of course, but it’s also a meal. A meal on a bun. It’s a meal on a bun that’s easy to make and really nutritious as well.
Ingredients:
2 pounds ground sirloin (any kind of ground beef will do, of course, but I prefer to use ground sirloin.)
2 large onions, diced
1 green pepper, diced
1 red pepper, diced
1 yellow pepper, diced
1 tablespoon chili powder
1 1/2 cup Craig’s BBQ Sauce
Dash salt, if you want
Dash black pepper
What to do:
Brown the ground beef in a large skillet; drain thoroughly. THOROUGHLY. Add all the other ingredients and mix completely. If you need more barbecue sauce, feel free to add more. I usually do.
Cover the skillet and simmer on the lowest heat your stove is capable of. Set your timer for fifteen minutes, but check every five minutes or so.
In the meantime, warm your buns (saying that always cracks me up!) in the microwave.
I always serve this dish with potato salad and baked beans. Flip through the Texas Pepper Jelly blog, and you’ll find awesome recipes for both of these side dishes!
Turn off the stove burner, and spoon the mixture into a serving bowl. Set it on the table with the sides, and call in your family. Stand back.
There will be no leftovers. But on the off chance that there is a little big leftover, add some sour cream and serve later that night with crackers.
Texas Pepper Jelly products are super versatile.
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Tags: buns, ground sirloin, meal on a bun, onions, peppers, sandwich, sloppy joes, springtime, Texas Pepper Jelly
Serve Craig’s BBQ Sauce When You Grill Out. It’s the Best.
This time of year, when the flowers are blooming after a long, cold winter, and when the temperature outside is in the seventies after that same long, cold winter, people want to socialize with their friends more than ever. We’ve all been cooped up for months, and now that we can leave our homes without bundling up, without scraping an inch or more of ice off our cars, and without slipping and falling down on ice, we want to visit and be visited. For most of us, socialization means food, and in this new springtime good weather, food means barbecue.
And barbecue means outdoor cooking.
If you’re going to have friends over for some barbecue, you need to use the very best barbecue sauce on the market. That means you need to order some Craig’s BBQ Sauce from Texas Pepper Jelly.
When you serve your family and friends food grilled with Craig’s BBQ Sauce, they will eat up everything on the picnic table. There will be NOTHING left over. Craig’s BBQ Sauce on the meat means everything else will taste better, too. Even the pickles and sodas will taste better if Craig’s BBQ Sauce is used on the grill.
When you call friends to invite them over for barbecue, just tell them up front that you’ll be using Craig’s BBQ Sauce and you won’t get a “Thanks. We’ll get back to you!” You’ll get “Thanks!!!! When should we be there? We can be there in a few minutes!”
That’s because there is no barbecue sauce made anywhere today that comes even close to Craig’s BBQ Sauce. Texas Pepper Jelly’s Craig’s BBQ Sauce is the best. The BEST.
There is no comparable barbecue sauce on the market.
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Tags: barbecue, cookout, Craig's BBQ Sauce, grill, grilling, Texas Pepper Jelly
