This is the tray I took to our family reunion on Christmas Day. That’s Pineapple Habanero pepper jelly in the center, and the red stuff is Habanero Salsa. Check out which dips have been dipped into the most!

The plain old cheese dips couldn’t even begin to compete with Texas Pepper Jelly products! Which reminds me. . . I need to order some more. The delivery is so fast, I’ll probably get them in time for New Year’s Eve if I order today!

My family loves all of the Texas Pepper Jelly flavors, but I’ll have to say that Pineapple Habanero is everyone’s favorite here. And that Habanero Salsa is the only kind my son asks for, and he’s somewhat of a salsa expert!

By the way:  do y’all see that shrimp to the right of the tray?  People were dipping shrimp into the pepper jelly, too, and the verdict was DELICIOUS.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to order some more Texas Pepper Jelly.  Darn family members ate it all.

It’s Wednesday of Christmas Week, and I’m falling back on one of my family’s favorite old standby meals:  Crockpot Tenderloin.  Crockpot meals are so easy and hassle-free, and Christmas Week is a time when the less hassle, the better!

Pork tenderloin was on sale this week for only a few cents more than a dollar a pound, so I was able to buy a really big tenderloin.  I cut it into “coins” and put them in my slow cooker.  Then I cut up two large onions and sprinkled both onto the pork in the crockpot.

Last of all, I poured a jar of Pineapple Habanero pepper jelly over everything.

Put these ingredients in your crockpot before you go to bed, and all through the night the wonderful aroma will waft throughout your house and give you all fabulous dreams.  In the morning, just turn off the crockpot and put it in the refrigerator.  The first one home from work/school takes the crockpot out of the ‘fridge, plugs it in, and turns it on “low” while preparing the side dishes. 

For dinner tonight, at my house:  Pork Tenderloin Medallions in Pepper Jelly, baked beans (made with any of our Texas Pepper Jelly finishing sauces) cole slaw,  and au gratin potatoes.  Come on over if you want a taste;  whenever I use any Texas Pepper Jelly product in my recipes, there are never any leftovers.

Pork Tenderloin Medallions can be made with any kind of pepper jelly.  I just happen to have a jar of pineapple habanero handy!

To everyone who ordered from Texas Pepper Jelly yesterday: Don’t worry! You’ll get your stuff on time!

This weekend, why not make a batch of spicy thumbprint cookies? They’re not like a regular cookies, you know; they’re spicy! This recipe’s cookies are also sugar-free! If you are diabetic, you can have some of these cookies.

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter, softened (not melted)
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 and 1/4 cups flour
1/2 cup chopped nuts
3 teaspoons Splenda
Texas Pepper Jelly of your choice. Mix it up!

What to do:

In a large bowl, mix everything together except the Splenda and the Pepper Jelly.

Wrap in waxed paper and chill in refrigerator for about an hour.

Remove, unpeel, roll into little balls, and place them on an ungreased cookie sheet.

Dip your thumb in flour, and press firmly in the middle of each cookie, leaving a thumb-shaped indentation.

Bake 13-15 minutes at 350.

Remove from oven and sprinkle with Splenda.

Once cookies are cool, fill the thumbprint-shaped indentation with pepper jelly.

Stand back. These cookies are REALLY GOOD.

Pour yourself a big glass of ice-cold milk, put a few of these cookies on a plate, and relax with a good book before you go to bed tonight.

. . . and it’s the last day you can order anything and get it before Christmas.  You’ll be seeing pretty much this same message all over the internet, for every online business.

Fortunately, it’s not the 17th yet, and there is still time to choose your Texas Pepper Jelly gift and have it sent to your friends and family members!

There are so many ways to use Texas Pepper Jelly, but may I remind y’all that one of the simplest of all recipes is also the tastiest and most useful to know when company comes or your family just wants a delicious snack.

Just pour a jar of any kind of Texas Pepper Jelly over a brick of cream cheese, and set out some crackers.

How easy can taste bud nirvana get?

Now, click over to the Texas Pepper Jelly website and finish your Christmas shopping by choosing unique, delicious gifts that your friends will actually love!

Listen up!  You’ve got four more days to order, if you want to receive your gift items before Christmas!  Yes, Thursday of this week is the last day.

Don’t get me wrong: you can order from Texas Pepper Jelly ANY TIME, but if you want to receive your order before Christmas, you’ll have to get busy and do your ordering within the next few days.

That’s December 17th!  After that, we can’t guarantee that your order will arrive in time for Christmas.

Here is the big boss Craig Sharry himself, with some information about the Texas Pepper Jelly newsletter, holiday deliveries, and gift pack selection:

Our newsletter signup is quick and easy. And it’s FREE! Do your friends and family a favor, pass this newsletter along so they can sign up today. Did I mention it’s FREE ?

I hate the to be the one to break the bad news, but somebody has to be the bad guy.  December 17 is the deadline for Texas Pepper Jelly to be able to ship your orders in time for Christmas.  I know, I know, you have so much shopping left to do.  It hardly seems fair, but in order for us to package your orders with all of our wonderful products then get them to USPS so that they can be delivered on time for Christmas means we have to have a deadline.  Oh and don’t forget.  Select USPS Priority.  This time of year shipping Parcel Post can delay the timely arrival of your packages.  So order now and ship USPS Priority.  Then you can rest easy knowing your gift will arrive in time.

Also remember that Texas Pepper Jelly is the place to do all of your Christmas shopping.  With a great selection of jellies to choose from how can you go wrong.  You can order individual flavors or save money and order a complete case.  Maybe you want something more than just a jar of jelly to give as a gift.  That is real easy just go to our Gift Pack page and choose from several collectible tins or our very popular sampler basket.  What we do different is let you choose the flavors for your gift pack.  WOW!  Most places just want to sell you what they want you to have.  We want to sell you what you want and that makes Texas P epper Jelly your one stop online for all of your Christmas shopping.

A great thing about Texas Pepper Jelly is that it is quick and easy to use.. Another thing that is quick and easy is our newsletter sign up. Tell your friends about it. Tell them it’s free. Then they can get their own copy every month. Plus, anyone who subscribes today, will immediately be sent a free sample of our Country Sweet Texas Heat cookbook. These exclusive recipes will have your friends and family wanting you to cook all of their meals.

Be sure to watch for next month’s newsletter. There is a good chance we will be introducing another new product. I hate to talk about it too much so be sure to watch for your copy next month.

As always thank you for shopping at Texas Pepper Jelly.

Until next time,

Craig Sharry

Christmas is only TWO WEEKS away! Don’t panic yet, though, because there’s still time to order from Texas Pepper Jelly.

We’ve got a lot of fantastic, truly unique gifts for your food-loving friends and family!

Remember, too, that if you can’t decide which holiday tin, etc, to get for Uncle Tim or Grandma, Texas Pepper Jelly also has gift certificates!

Anybody can shop in a mall, and anybody can give a gift that a zillion other people are giving and getting, but a gift from Texas Pepper Jelly is something your recipient will never forget.

Don’t forget, too, that while all of the other companies that sell samplers and tins require that you purchase their products already packed, Texas Pepper Jelly encourages you to pick whatever kind of pepper jelly you wish for your sampler tins!  One of each, all the same – it’s up to you!

Order soon.  Two weeks left.  Give the gift of a Texas Pepper Jelly Christmas!

Texas Pepper Jelly samplers are not like samplers from any other company.  Other companies offer you a done deal: a tin filled with THEIR choice of flavors.  At Texas Pepper Jelly, you can order any of several different kinds of tins and we let YOU choose the flavors!

That’s right: YOU choose whatever flavor of pepper jelly YOU want in YOUR tin.  Choose one of each, or choose all the same, or choose any combinations YOU want!

We have several different sizes and types of sampler tins; you can choose that, too.

Our pepper jellies are made fresh when we get your order, so each sampler tin will contain the very freshest products you could ever hope to find.

It’s time to get your orders in, however.  Take a look at the calendar; Christmas is almost here!  There’s stlil time to order from Texas Pepper Jelly, though.

Why give an ordinary gift when you can give a truly unique gift from Texas Pepper Jelly?

A house without cookies is unacceptable, especially during the holiday season!

If you’re in a hurry, here’s a tip for you:  just open a package of pre-made cookies, add a dollop of pepper jelly in the middle, and put them in the microwave for ten seconds!  I’ve done this with plain butter cookies, oatmeal cookies (our favorite), peanut butter cookies, and gingerbread.  All of these have been awesome!  The only kind of cookie my kids didn’t like, with pepper jelly on it, was chocolate chip.  All the others, however, were huge hits!

Speaking of gingerbread and pepper jelly:  this is a fabulous combination!  Some people might even eat it for breakfast.  Ahem.

The point is, fabulous cookies don’t have to be homemade.  You can make inexpensive, store-bought cookies into a wonderful, homemade-like treat with just a dab of Texas Pepper Jelly.  We’ve used almost all of the various flavors, too; so far, so GREAT!

The Texas Pepper Jelly gift item “Jelly of the Month” is truly the gift that keeps on giving!  For a full year, the lucky recipient of this gift will get, via the mail, a new batch of pepper jelly every three months!

That’s right – every three months your gift recipient will get three 12-ounce jars of Texas Pepper Jelly, by far the best pepper jelly on the market today, anywhere.

That’s a total of twelve big 12-ounce jars of pepper jelly, folks, each jar a different flavor!

Along next summer, when most Christmas gifts are long used up or forgotten, your gift recipient will still be getting a fresh batch of Texas Pepper Jelly in the mail!

This is an excellent gift idea for individuals AND for businesses; talk about keeping your name fresh in a friend or client’s mind!

Those of you who don’t subscribe to our newsletter yet:  What are you waiting for?  It’s absolutely chock-FULL of fabulous advice, hints, deals, discounts, coupons, news, and recipes!  And it’s absolutely free!

Here’s some of this week’s newsletter from Texas Pepper Jelly’s big boss himself:  Craig Sharry:

Our newsletter signup is quick and easy. And it’s FREE! Do your friends and family a favor, pass this newsletter along so they can sign up today. Did I mention it’s FREE ?

A great thing about Texas Pepper Jelly is that it is quick and easy to use. Another thing that is quick and easy is our newsletter sign up. Tell your friends about it. Tell them it’s free. Then they can get their own copy every month.

Plus, anyone who subscribes today, will immediately be sent a free sample of our Country Sweet Texas Heat cookbook. These exclusive recipes will have your friends and family wanting you to cook all of their meals.

Be sure to watch for next month’s newsletter. There is a good chance we will be introducing another new product. I hate to talk about it too much so be sure to watch for your copy next month.

As always thank you for shopping at Texas Pepper Jelly.

Until next month,

Craig Sharry