Southwestern Corn Dip

Oh, this one is SOOOO GOOD!  I’m making this for an appetizer on Thanksgiving!

You’ll need the following ingredients to make enough for thirty people:

1lb of cheese – I use Velveeta, but any kind of yellow cheese will do.  If you have a lot of tag ends of cheese in your refrigerator, this is a good way to use them up.

1 can of corn, well-drained

1 onion, finely chopped

1 cup of Habanero Salsa

1/2 cup sour cream

1/2 cup fresh cilantro, finely chopped

Mix the cheese and corn in a large microwaveable bowl.  Microwave on high about five minutes or until cheese is melted.  Stir occasionally.

Mix in all the other ingredients.

Serve hot with any kind of crackers or raw vegetables that you want.  This dip goes with everything.  This recipe makes enough for a small party or family reunion.

For a smaller amount of dip, just halve everything and cut your microwave time to 3 or 5 minutes.  As always, watch any cheese carefully in your microwave.

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Excuse me now; I can hear my Raspberry Habanero and peanut butter sandwich calling my name.

My kids were jonesing for a “different” kind of snack last night, and I immediately thought of my Texas Pepper Jelly.  My daughter Sara then thought of the big “loaf” of Velveeta cheese that she’d seen in the refridgerator earlier. (We’re seldom without Velveeta in this house.)  (Now that we’ve discovered Texas Pepper Jelly, we’re seldom without that now, either!)

Sara hacked off a few slices of cheese and melted them in a cereal bowl.  She then added the rest of MY jar of Pineapple Habanero Pepper Jelly, stirred it up (It did smell really, really good) and proceeded to crack open the package of snowflake-shaped Ritz crackers I’d been saving for my Thanksgiving pepper jelly appetizers.

Sigh.  It’s just not possible to hide food from my kids.  If it’s being saved for a special occasion, especially, they’ll find it and they will EAT it, too.

I don’t really mind.  Besides, if you had smelled that Pineapple Habanero and Velveeta cheese dip, you’d have been here beating on the door.  It was really far too good to waste on company.  I told my children they could have it all.  And they did.

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The department is having a pitch-in tomorrow, and guess what I’m bringing!

Sweet and sour meatballs, made with Texas Pepper Jelly!

I used to make sweet and sour meatballs with BBQ sauce and apricot jam, along with a dash of nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, and a tiny little bit of onion powder.  I probably won’t bother with that recipe any more, though.

Tonight, I made sweet and sour meatballs with BBQ sauce and Berry Medley Texas Pepper Jelly, along with a dash of nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, and a diced onion.  My house smells so good, I’m sure the neighbors will be pounding on the door demanding a bite of “whatever is in your oven” any second.

It’s actually the second batch of meatballs that’s still in the oven.  The first batch is sitting on the stovetop cooling, and before I take it to the college tomorrow, I’ll have to add some of the second batch to the pan, because we’ve “sampled” so many of the meatballs, well, let me just say the pan is nearly empty there are a few meatballs gone missing. It’s a mystery.

Usually, I make the actual meatballs myself, but I might have cheated and bought a bag of frozen ones earlier.  Maybe.

They’ll never know, will they.  The only other thing I’ll need tomorrow is my gradebook and a box of toothpicks.  That’s the best way to eat sweet and sour meatballs, you know.

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Welcome once again to Texas Pepper Jelly’s What’s Cookin’ Wednesday!

We’re having crock-pot chicken tonight, and I’ve already got the chicken breasts soaking in a combination of Texas Tropical Habanero pepper jelly and a little water.

Before I go to bed, I’ll dump the chicken and the pepper jelly into my crockpot, along with a diced onion and a chopped green pepper.  In the morning, the house will smell lucious!  Before I go to work, I’ll cover the crock-pot insert and put the whole thing in the refrigerator.

When I get home, I’ll put the insert back in the crock-pot and set it on “high.”  By the time my husband gets home, I’ll have the biscuits made and some sweet corn ready.  We’ll lift the chicken pieces out of the crock-pot and put them on a platter, throw the frantic drooling cats out on the deck, and sit down to a simple and delicious meal.  If you put enough chicken in your crock-pot, you’ll have enough left for tomorrow’s supper as well.  If you put enough chicken in your crock-pot.  I always THINK I do, but somehow there’s never any left for the next day.

There used to be, but never since i started using the various Texas Pepper Jellies.

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Messermeister Cutlery has been around for over a century, but it has been available in the States only since 1984.  Serious cooks appreciate the razor-sharp blades and sturdy handles of Messermeister Cutlery; I have a serrated tomato knife from Messermeister and I absolutely LOVE IT!  I’ve never owned a knife so sharp before!  That’s my knife, pictured above.

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This weekend, I made homemade breadsticks, and we dipped them in Pineapple Habanero pepper jelly.  I mention this to y’all for several reasons:  it was yummy good, I used my tomato knife to cut the dough into strips, and we had guests who loved the Pineapple Habanero so much, they demanded a sample of my Texas Tropical Habanero, too.  And I was saving that one for Thanksgiving!

Fortunately, Texas Pepper Jelly isn’t expensive, so I can easily order more.  They have really fast delivery, too, so it will be here well before Thanksgiving.

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I’m eating Ritz crackers and Pineapple Habanero Texas Pepper Jelly as I type, and it’s so good I can’t stop.

Often, the best-tasting foods are a result of the easiest recipes!  It’s true today, and tonight my family will be sitting down to a fantastic meal, thanks to Texas Pepper Jelly.

The mailman brought a box of incredible delights to my door today, and among the delicious-looking treasures in that box was a jar of Berry Medley pepper jelly.

After I pried it out of my husband’s eager hands, I decided to try a crock-pot meal with it.

So I thawed half of a pork tenderloin and cut it into medallions.  I put them into my crock-pot and dumped about a half-cup of Berry Medley pepper jelly and a sliced onion on it, put the lid on the pot and walked away.  It’s going to slow-cook on low all day, soaking in the Berry Medley pepper jelly and getting so tender, we’ll be able to cut it with the side of a fork.

Add to this some potato salad and baked beans – I used Texas Tropical Habanera in the beans – and we’re going to have to bar the door to keep the neighbors out of our dining room.

Oh, and by the way, that Messermeister knife that came in my Texas Pepper Jelly box today is FANTASTIC!  It’s razor-sharp and sliced through that onion as if it had been butter!

Texas Pepper Jelly products are absolutely wonderful.  I don’t know how I ever managed without them!