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Jane Goodwin | June 9, 2013

Summer Time is Cookout Time

It might not be officially summer yet (that’s not until June 21st!) but summer cookouts have begun, for sure. Father’s Day is Sunday the 14th, and, weather permitting, that’s always a good day for a cookout. And it isn’t all that long afterwards that it will be time for the biggest cookout day of the summer – July 4th, Independence Day.

Do you think maybe it’s time for you to make sure you’ve got all your grilling supplies, ready and waiting for these two Big Grilling Days?

For all your pepper jelly needs, check out our Texas Pepper Jelly page!

If you need to order Rib Candy – Texas Pepper Jelly’s delicious grilling and finishing sauce – click here to be magically transported to our Rib Candy page.

Our various BBQ injections can be found by a click of this link!

Naturally, cookouts are greatly enhanced when the cook has the proper knives, razor-sharp and efficient. Our Messermeister knives are the best to be found.

Need more awesome Texas recipes? You can find them right here; we have several cookbooks that will surely contain almost everything you’ll need to be chosen the outdoor cook of the neighborhood. And don’t forget that Texas Pepper Jelly’s blog often has a recipe for you, and always absolutely free!

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Jane Goodwin | June 1, 2013

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Father’s Day Cookouts and Spicy Apple Pies

Father’s Day is June 16th, so it’s time to order your cookout supplies if you haven’t already done so.

What’s a cookout without Texas Pepper Jelly’s Rib Candy? To be on the safe side, maybe you’d better order several different flavors, so everyone at the cookout can have his favorite. Our Rib Candy 6-pack is perfect, and unlike most other gift packages from other companies, Texas Rib Candy gift packages are custom-packed; you tell us what flavors you want, and that’s what you get in your package! Order now to make sure you get your 6-pack in time for that Father’s Day cookout!

In the meantime, why not make a spicy apple pie? There’s nothing like the aroma of baking apple pie to make everyone in your house feel at home, and Texas Pepper Jelly’s spicy apple pie will be the best, most delicious pie you’ve ever tasted!

Ingredients:

10 Granny Smith apples, peeled and sliced thin
3/4 cup sugar (I use Splenda)
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Tiny dash of salt
5 square pats of butter
1/4 cup Texas Pepper Jelly’s Apple Cinnamon Rib Candy
Top and bottom pie crust (I buy mine at the store, or you can make it from scratch if you’re more ambitious than I am.)

What to do:

Preheat your oven to 425.

Put the bottom crust in the pie pan. Fill it with sliced apples.

Sprinkle the sugar, salt, and cinnamon over the top of the apples. Don’t mix.

Pour the Rib Candy over the sugary sprinkles.

Put the butter pats on top of it all: four near the edges and one in the middle.

Again, don’t mix.

Cover with top crust, and decorate it as you want. I always carve “TA” into the top crust, for “Tis apple.” (I read it in a book and liked it.)

Bake at 425 for 20 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 and bake for about 50 minutes. (I check every five minutes or so after that)

Let the pie “set up” for about a half hour before serving.

You’ll never make an apple pie any other way again. I haven’t. My family would rise up and make me promise to use Rib Candy forever after.

Category: grilling, Spicy desserts, Texas Cookin' Tips, Texas Pepper Jelly, Texas Rib Candy | Tags: cookout supplies, Father's Day cookouts, grilling sauces, spicy apple pie, Texas Pepper Jelly, Texas Rib Candy

Jane Goodwin | May 23, 2013

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Memorial Day Suggestions and Recipes!

Memorial Day weekend is upon us – the weekend of family reunions, get-togethers, picnics, cookouts, family, friends, all linked together with memories and fantastic food.

The traditional Memorial Day meal is a cookout, naturally. By this time, we’ve all used our grills and mad outdoor cooking skills several times – we hope. This weekend is really special, though. Memorial Day. Our reunions will be filled with beloved people who are there in body and people who are there in spirit and memory.

And, there will be food. Exceptionally delicious food, too. Here are some of Texas Pepper Jelly’s most beloved picnic recipes.

First of all, the meat. Grilled outdoors, covered with homemade BBQ sauce, Texas Pepper Jelly or Rib Candy, injected with Butcher’s best, and grilled to perfection, over charcoal or gas. Remember, lean meats grill best, as there isn’t as much fat to drip down and cause flareups, and thinner glazes aren’t as likely to burn.

What’s a picnic without Pineapple Sweet Fire Potato Salad, after all?

Don’t count on having any Texas Pepper Jelly cole slaw left over for tomorrow.

Got a few vegetarians at your cookout? Don’t worry – we’ve got some great recipes for a vegetarian cookout, too!

You can’t have a cookout without baked beans!

For dessert, Texas Pepper Jelly has several awesome recipes for all kinds of pies and cakes, but for an outdoor cookout, why not let your guests make their own ice cream in a baggie? It’s fun and delicious, and each guest can add the pepper jelly, fruit, or whatever that they individually prefer! (We like it best with pepper jelly and diced fruit.)

Add these fabulous, delicious Texas Pepper Jelly recipes to the outdoor buffet, let your guests place their contributions there, too, and see which pans empty out the fastest. We’re betting on ours, although anything Grandma brings will come in a close second.

Category: BBQ, grilling, Pineapple Sweet Fire, Spicy desserts, Spicy side dishes, Texas BBQ rubs, Texas Bird Bath, Texas Cookin' Tips, Texas grilling sauces, Texas Pepper Jelly, Texas Pepper Jelly grilling glazes, Texas Rib Candy, Texas Tips, TPJ Rubs and Spices, TPJ Sauces and Salsas, Vegetarian grill | Tags: baked beans, Grandma's pie, grilling injections, grilling meat, ice cream in a baggie, Memorial Day cookout, Memorial Day reunion, potato salad, Rib Candy, Texas cookout, Texas grilling, Texas Pepper Jelly

Jane Goodwin | May 19, 2013

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Strawberry Shortcake, Texas Style!

It’s strawberry season, and whether you’re making your strawberry shortcake with store-boughten cakes or homemade, here’s how to spice up your springtime strawberry dessert!

Strawberry shortcake is a springtime favorite. Here is our favorite shortcake recipe, although we don’t want you to feel too badly if you buy your shortcake at the store. The strawberry mixture is the important part, you know. Here is our favorite homemade shortcake recipe, just in case you feel ambitious:

Ingredients:

2 pounds fresh strawberries, washed, drained, and sliced
1/2 cup Strawberry Jalapeno pepper jelly
3 tablespoons sugar
5 tablespoons sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups heavy cream

What to do:

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.

In a large mixing bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, 3 tablespoons of sugar, and salt. Add the cream and mix until just combined. Place mixture in an ungreased 8-inch square pan and bake for 18 to 20 minutes.

Remove shortcake from pan and place on a rack to cool slightly. Cut into 6 pieces and split each piece in half horizontally.

In a medium bowl, mix together the strawberries, remaining sugar, and pepper jelly. Put in the refrigerator for a few hours or overnight.

When it’s dessert time, put a few tablespoons of strawberry mixture in a small bowl, add a split shortcake, put more strawberry mixture on the cake, add the other half of the cake and some more strawberries. Dress it up with a dollop of whipped cream and you’ve got a dessert fit for a king.

Even more important, you’ll have a dessert fit for your family.

Category: Spicy desserts, Texas Pepper Jelly, TPJ Recipes | Tags: spicy springtime desserts, spicy strawberry shortcake, Texas Pepper Jelly

Jane Goodwin | May 12, 2013

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Texas Pepper Jelly: Sauces, Jellies, Rubs, Injections, and Fillet Knives

So, you’re stocking up on your grilling supplies. . . filling your pantry shelves with grilling sauces, BBQ sauces, dipping sauces, pepper jellies, rubs, injections. . . .and you’re sure you’re ready for the summer’s grillings. Have you checked out your knives yet? A good filet knife can make your cookout prep a lot easier. Texas Pepper Jelly is proud to carry Messermeister knives, and their Park Plaza filet knife is the best you’ll ever find and use.

Cookouts are a way of life for many people, and no summer gathering is complete without one. There’s something about eating in the house when the sun is shining and the breeze is blowing softly that is just, well, wrong. This weather was made for eating outside.

Balancing a paper plate of delicious food is what summer is all about. Isn’t that why we have knees in the first place? And no food, not even Thanksgiving dinner, can beat a summer cookout and the food that comes off that grill.

My neighbors are grilling already, many of them, in fact. When I get home from work around 7 p.m., the neighborhood smells so good I can hardly walk into the house from my car. The smell of good barbecue is unequaled in the annals of cookbook aromas.

We’re having a family reunion for Mother’s Day on Sunday afternoon. We’re all bringing picnic food, in spite of the thunderstorm forecast. The main dish is spiral baked ham, and the glaze, which MAKES the ham, is straight from the cookbooks of Texas Pepper Jelly. Why? Because that’s the best one!

We’re also having Pineapple Sweet Fire Potato Salad and the BIG crockpot full of Texas Partytime Beans.

For dessert we’re having dark chocolate cake because it’s my nephew’s birthday. But we’ve got a lot of Texas Pepper Jelly to spoon over the ice cream!

Happy Mother’s Day to all of our readers, because some of you ARE mothers, and the rest of you HAVE mothers.

Category: BBQ, crockpot meals, grilling, Messermeister Knives, Pineapple Sweet Fire, Slow cooker delights, slow-cooker meals, Super Easy Party Recipes, Texas BBQ rubs, Texas grilling sauces, Texas Pepper Jelly, Texas Pepper Jelly grilling glazes, Texas Rib Candy | Tags: chocolate cake, grilling, Mother's Day, picnic food, spicy baked beans, spicy ham, spicy potato salad, Texas BBQ injections, Texas glazed ham, Texas grilling sauces, Texas Party Beans, Texas Pepper Jelly, Texas Pepper Jelly injector needles, Texas Rib Candy, Texas Sweet Fire Potato Salad, thunderstorm

Jane Goodwin | May 3, 2013

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Your Child’s Teacher Wants Texas Pepper Jelly!

While all the other parents are wrapping up little trinkets from WalMart or Dollar Tree, why don’t you give your child’s teacher something really awesome – something the teacher will love, and actually USE?

Texas Pepper Jelly’s 6-jar Star Sampler is the perfect teacher end-of-year gift, and right now it’s ON SALE! Speaking as a teacher myself, I can pretty much guarantee that a gift of Texas Pepper Jelly will make all those candles, mugs, picture frames, and whatever-the-heck-that-thing-is-that’s-made-of-popsicle sticks. Our Star Sampler is something a teacher will appreciate much more than a pencil holder or Christmas tree ornament, and believe me, any teacher lucky enough to have students’ parents savvy enough to give the gift of Texas Pepper Jelly will remember those parents in a positive light for a long time. How long? I’m guessing. . . . forever, maybe?

For the price of a trinket bought at a gift shop or one of those overpriced educational supplies stores, you can give your child’s hardworking, dedicated teacher a real gift – a gift that will be used and remembered. Besides, after the teacher has eaten up all the pepper jelly, there will still be the attractive star-shaped tin, which can be used for many things!

Remember, whenever you order a gift package from Texas Pepper Jelly, YOU get to choose your pepper jelly flavors. Choose all the same flavor, or 6 different flavors, or three and three, or any combination whatsover – YOU are the boss of Texas Pepper Jelly flavor choices!

You’ve still got plenty of time to order and get your package before school’s out, but don’t wait too long! Get your teacher appreciation Star Samplers ordered, and one more kid’s school “thing” will be done!

Order your Texas Pepper Jelly Star Sampler right HERE!

P.S. Did I mention that the Star Sampler is ON SALE? You’ll save eight bucks! Order now!

Category: perfect gift, Texas Samplers, TPJ Sampler Tins | Tags: best teacher gift of all, choose your flavors, end-of-year teacher gift, gift package, gift tin, perfect teacher gift, sale tin, star tin, Texas Pepper Jelly, Texas Pepper Jelly for the teacher

Jane Goodwin | April 27, 2013

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Spicy Peach Ice Cream – In A Baggie!

Grilling season is OFFICIALLY here now, and even if you’ve still got a little snow on the ground, it’s time to uncover the grill and start using it.

Grilling out is best when you’ve got a crowd, and family reunions are the best kind of crowd because they’re so often a mixture of generations – older people, children, and everything in between.

After all that excellent food is eaten, it’s time for dessert, and what dessert can rival Spicy Peach Ice Cream in a Baggie for delicious fun! Nobody is ever too old to play with their food!

Bear in mind that this recipe is for ONE BAGGIE of ice cream. Therefore, each individual will have to follow these directions with his/her own individual baggie of ice cream!

Ingredients:

1/2 cup milk (any kind of milk will be fine, so depending on your dietary needs and what you’ve got on hand, feel free to use skim, 2%, whole, half-and-half, cream, almond, etc.)
1/2 teaspoon of vanilla
2 tablespoons of sugar (real or Splenda)
2 tablespoons finely diced peaches (canned, fresh, or frozen)
1 tablespoon of Texas Pepper Jelly’s Spicy Peach Grilling Sauce

4 cups of crushed ice
4 tablespoons salt
2 quart-size Zip-loc bag
1 gallon size Zip-loc freezer bag

What to do:

Mix the milk, vanilla, sugar, peaches, and grilling sauce in the quart size bag. Before sealing, try to force out as much air as possible, and then seal the bag. Double-check the seal – you don’t want ANY leakage. Put the filled bag inside the second bag and double-check that seal, too. (The two bags are JUST IN CASE you get a leak. . . .)

Place the two quart bag inside the gallon bag. Fill the gallon bag with ice and sprinkle all of the salt on the ice. Let as much air as possible escape, and seal the bag. Double check the seal!

Play with the bags. Toss them back and forth. Knead them. Play catch with them. Check the seals occasionally; if you get an inside leak, your ice cream is ruined.

After about 7 minutes, check the contents of your inner bag. You’ve probably got ice cream! If you don’t, play with the bags a few more minutes.

Imagine the fun of a pleasant crowd of adults and children making Spicy Peach Ice Cream in a Baggie, in your backyard!

Once your mixture has turned to ice cream, remove the inner bag, rinse off the salt, open the bag, and dig in with a spoon!

Spicy Peach Ice Cream in a Baggie is awesome fun for reunions, parties (kids and adults!) and any kind of outdoor gathering. It’s more fun than a regular dessert, the peaches are good for you, and the Spicy Peach Grilling Sauce adds a little zing to your plain ice cream.

Order your Spicy Peach Grilling Sauce now!

P.S. Here’s still another way to make ice cream, from science guy Steve Spangler!

P.P.S. You can use any of Texas Pepper Jelly’s pepper jellies or Rib Candies in your ice cream, with or without the fruit. If you do use fruit, try to match it with the flavor of pepper jelly or rib candy.

P.P.P.S. You can throw some chopped nuts in the bag, too!

Category: grilling, New Texas Pepper Jelly product, Spicy desserts, Super Easy Party Recipes, Texas grilling sauces, Texas Pepper Jelly, Texas Rib Candy, Texas Tips, TPJ Recipes | Tags: baggie, children's dessert, dessert, diced peaches, family dessert, gallon freezer bag, ice cream, ice cream in a baggie, milk, quart baggie, Spangler Science, spicy peach grilling sauce, Steve Spangler, Texas Pepper Jelly, vanilla, zip-loc bags

Jane Goodwin | April 19, 2013

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You Need A Texas Pepper Jelly T-Shirt!

Texas Pepper Jelly has the perfect t-shirt for your summer grilling – our awesome shirts come in all sizes from Large to 5X, and in three bright colors: pink, red, and sport grey!

Most licensed t-shirts are expensive, but Texas Pepper Jelly’s t-shirts are only $15.00, and they’re made of 100% pre-shrunk cotton. Throw them into the dryer – they’ll be the same size when they come back out! We accept several payment types, including PayPal!

Our t-shirts are so popular that sometimes a particular size/color combo is out of stock, but if you get that message, please try again in a few days. We WANT you to have one of our awesome T-shirts, and we’ll have your size later, if we don’t have it right now.

Mine is pink.

I wear it whenever we grill out in the summer, and I’ve already worn it twice this spring. This weekend it’s going to freeze again, but where I live, the seasons change every five minutes, and in a few days it’ll be warm again.

My Texas Pepper Jelly shirt is my favorite t-shirt, and just seeing it makes me think of the awesome products I’ve stocked my pantry with in preparation for official grilling-out season.

I’ve got several flavors of pepper jelly, two jars of Loco Cheese Dip, three bottles of Rib Candy, and a jar of Pineapple Sweet Fire Pickles, so far, and I’m not done ordering yet. Besides, I can’t keep any of Texas Pepper Jelly’s products IN my pantry for more than a few days, because my family is crazy about them and when everybody’s home, things mysteriously disappear.

P.S. Those Pineapple Sweet Fire Pickles are really good. They’re also on sale right now.

P.P.S. Did I mention that those pickles are really good? Holy cow, SO GOOD!

P.P.P.S. The Loco Cheese Dip is on sale, too. I might need to order some more of that right now – my son is here and I spotted him eating something an hour or so ago, and I suspect that he found my Loco Cheese Dip. . .

Category: Loco Cheese Dip, Pineapple Sweet Fire, Spicy condiments, Texas Pepper Jelly, Texas Rib Candy, TPJ Rubs and Spices, TPJ Sauces and Salsas, TPJ T-shirt | Tags: 5X t-shirt, awesome pickles, bright t-shirts, colored t-shirts, grilling season, Loco Cheese Dip, on sale, perfect t-shirt, Pineapple Sweet Fire Pickles, products on sale, Texas Pepper Jelly, Texas Pepper Jelly T-shirts, Texas Rib Candy

Jane Goodwin | March 29, 2013

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Happy Easter – Enjoy Your Pineapple Habanero Ham!

There’s nothing like a nice big baked ham for Easter dinner, is there? And if you think you’ve had some tasty ham before, just you wait until this year. Texas Pepper Jelly’s Pineapple Habanero Ham is the most awesomely delicious ham you and your family have ever tasted in all your lives, now and forever.

It’s easy, too. Super easy.

Just buy a big baked ham, a can of pineapple rings, and some Texas Pepper Jelly’s Pineapple Habanero.

Line a big sided baking pan with aluminum foil. Place the ham (be sure to get all the plastic wrap off it!) in the pan on the foil. Brush the ham all over with pepper jelly, and start sticking the pineapple rings all over it with toothpicks. Fasten a cherry in the middle of each pineapple ring if your family likes cherries. If you’ve got some pepper jelly left over, spoon it onto the top of the ham. (It’ll melt and trickle down all through the pineapple rings and make your ham even MORE delicious!) (Use Cherry Jalapeno -or Cherry Habanero – if you put cherries on your ham.)

Put the ham in a cold oven and set it to 350. Your ham is already baked, so all you’re really doing is heating it up and “setting” the glaze. Bake the ham about 15 minutes per pound, so you’ll have to do a little math.

When the ham is done, remove it from the oven and, while it’s still on the foil in the pan, pour a little more pepper jelly over it. Let it “set” for about 20 minutes, then remove and put on a platter. Slice. Serve. Step back. If you’re counting on leftovers so you can make a sandwich tomorrow, you’d better steal a few slices, put them in a baggie, and hide them behind the ketchup bottle in your fridge.

This ham is delicious. Absolutely delicious. And isn’t it easy? I told you it was easy.

Happy Easter from Texas Pepper Jelly!

Category: Easter ideas, Spicy main dishes, Super Easy Party Recipes, Texas Cookin' Tips, Texas Holiday Recipes, Texas Pepper Jelly, Texas Tips, TPJ Company dinners | Tags: easter egg, Easter Ham, Easter Pineapple Habanero Ham, happy easter, pineapple rings, Texas Pepper Jelly

Jane Goodwin | March 21, 2013

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Easter Sunday is March 31st – Make Those Breakfast Eggs Texas-Style!

Easter is coming up faster than we realize – it’s March 31 this year. It’s traditional to give the gift of a filled basket on Easter, and Texas Pepper Jelly has several different kinds of baskets filled with an assortment of pepper jellies that would be the PERFECT Easter basket gift for a friend, neighbor, or grown-up family member. While the children in your home might prefer a basket filled with chocolate bunnies and peanut butter eggs, the older family members would be ecstatic to find a basket for them, and filled with their favorite pepper jellies. We have several different shapes and sizes of spicy-filled goodness to choose from, too!

Here’s something awesome that makes Texas Pepper Jelly assortments different – and BETTER – than the assortments you can order from almost every other company: YOU get to choose your flavors. When you order an assortment of any kind from most companies, you’re limited. The baskets are pre-made, and often you are stuck with one or two flavors that nobody likes, and they go to waste, and so did part of your money.

Texas Pepper Jelly doesn’t do that to its customers. When you order an assortment from us, YOU are in charge of telling us which flavors you want. Often, people order several assortment baskets or tins and each one is different.

Order all one flavor if you wish. Order one of each. Order two of one and two of another. It’s up to you.

You tell us what kind of pepper jelly you want in your star-shaped basket, or your round basket, or your tin, and we’ll make it up fresh for you and send it right out.

Texas Pepper Jelly is proud to say that our shipping is really fast, too.

P.S. On Easter morning, when people traditionally have eggs, be sure to set out some pepper jelly to mix with the scrambled eggs, dip the boiled eggs into, spread onto your toast or biscuit or bagel, or eat with a spoon. Hey, people do that all the time. It’s great on French toast, too. And nothing jazzes up a grilled cheese sandwich like our Loco Cheese Dip and pepper jelly on whole wheat!

It’s also awesome stirred into your cocoa or coffee. And your wine, but that’s for later in the day.

Next week: Spice up that traditional Easter baked ham!

Category: Easter ideas, Feast of Fridays, holiday gifts, Loco Cheese Dip, Spicy breakfasts, Texas breakfast recipes, Texas Cookin' Tips, Texas Holiday Recipes, Texas Pepper Jelly, TPJ Recipes | Tags: assortments, baskets, cocoa, coffee, dipping eggs, Easter, easter baskets, eggs, French toast, Loco Cheese Dip, spicy assortments, Texas Easter baskets, Texas Pepper Jelly, tins, toast, wine

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Tag Archive for Texas Pepper Jelly

Summer Time is Cookout Time

Father’s Day Cookouts and Spicy Apple Pies

Memorial Day Suggestions and Recipes!

Strawberry Shortcake, Texas Style!

Texas Pepper Jelly: Sauces, Jellies, Rubs, Injections, and Fillet Knives

Your Child’s Teacher Wants Texas Pepper Jelly!

Spicy Peach Ice Cream – In A Baggie!

You Need A Texas Pepper Jelly T-Shirt!

Happy Easter – Enjoy Your Pineapple Habanero Ham!

Easter Sunday is March 31st – Make Those Breakfast Eggs Texas-Style!

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