If you are unfamiliar with the Malagueta pepper, is here is some information so you can learn more about this cultural pepper. It is a type of chili pepper grown in Brazil, Mozambique and in Portugal and happens to be the most popular hot pepper in Brazil. The Malagueta Pepper is a small green chili shaped pepper that turns red once it fully matures and the heat level is similar to that of Tabasco peppers.

You will often find the Malagueta pepper used in various sauce recipes particularly sauces that are used to marinate or season poultry dishes.  It is also … Continue Reading

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For our chili heads that love everything hot and hotter still, many of you have been asking for a simple to prepare Ghost Pepper hot sauce recipe that you can make at home. Here is a great one that you can make and use as a sauce for ribs or shredded pork. You can even use it as a mop sauce too.

When preparing this particular recipe, you want to protect your hands, eyes and skin while handling the hot ghost pepper so please wear an apron, goggles and gloves while handling these types of peppers.

2 cups of white vinegar
1 1/2 … Continue Reading

There are plenty of people looking for ways to cut carbs and still enjoy their favorite wings and BBQ sauces. Sugar is the main culprit and when you make your own sauce, you can adjust the sugar or use a sugar substitute. We have a great recipe for a Low Carb BBQ Sauce that you can tweak to your enjoyment level.

Eating out can be an issue for those watching their carbs and when you have a craving for some hot and spicy wings, you do have some choices available. Here is a list of the carb counts for … Continue Reading

Hot wings are so good and easy to make on the fly when you have unexpected guests show up.  Here is an awesome recipe for a creamy dipping sauce for your wings that requires no special ingredients. Your favorite on hand ingredients like BBQ sauce and Hot Sauce make this super-fast to whip up.

Here is what you will need to make the perfect creamy dipping sauce for your buffalo wings.

1 clove of garlic, minced
1/2 cup onion, finely chopped
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 1/2 cups barbecue sauce
1 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
pinch of salt
pinch of … Continue Reading

Making a hot sauce is a unique as the person creating it. There are so many different ingredients that you can use to mix your peppers with to get a tangy, sweet, spicy pepper hot sauce.  Using peaches has become a popular additive into many hot sauces and often people look for a way to blend in their peaches when making a recipe.

Here is an easy hot sauce recipe that you can use and tweak as you like.

Peach Hot Sauce Recipe

10 large orange Habanero Peppers (washed, cored and seeds removed)
5 large super ripe fresh Peaches (washed and pitted)
1/2 large white … Continue Reading

With fresh peppers abounding right now it’s a great time to look at a few ideas for enjoying peppers for a delicious lunch or light dinner.  Here are some great pepper sandwich ideas that you will enjoy over and over again!  They are great for a quick and easy preparation and the kids will enjoy them too!

Mozzarella Cheesy Pepper Sandwich

1 slice of Mozzarella cheese
1 roasted red or green bell pepper, chopped
1-2 slices of tomato
butter and bread

This is a twist on the classic grilled cheese sandwich! Butter one side of each slice of bread and place one slice in a preheated … Continue Reading

Popular and available for more than 20 years in the USA, the Cholula Hot Sauce is a brand of hot sauce that is available in a variety of delicious flavors. Cholula Hot Sauce is made in Mexico from a recipe that is over 100 years old and kept under lock and key.

The Cholula difference is all in its exclusive blend of piquin and arbol peppers, ground into a delicate pepper paste then combined with signature seasonings and natural ingredients.  Not overly spicy to burn your mouth, but spicy enough to bring out the flavors of the peppers and enhance … Continue Reading

Back in the 1960s, Jan and Dean sang, “You won’t come back from deadman’s curve,” and it proved prescient when Jan was in a car accident on the same road mentioned in the song and suffered brain damage that lasted until he died a few years ago. Today, we have Deadman Hot Sauce, sporting a label that has the name of the sauce printed on yellow police tape and a chalk outline of a body with a bottle of the sauce lying nearby. Does this mean you won’t survive this sauce?

Well, there are no guarantees in life so who’s to say? But I will guarantee that you won’t find many classic red hot sauces that are hotter or more flavorful than Deadman. This is a sauce worth dying for because unlike most classic red hot sauces that are made with aged cayenne peppers, Deadman Hot Sauce is made with…er, aged red peppers. Continue Reading

Hot pepper sauce is a basic cooking necessity that pepper lovers want to keep in their kitchen at all times.  Having a favorite homemade hot pepper sauce that you can call your own and be able to adjust the flavors is a great thing to have too.  Here is a very simple recipe that you can use to flavor your sauces, wings, or other delicious foods.

Homemade Hot Pepper Sauce
3 cups chopped Habanero Peppers
2 cups white vinegar
2 tablespoons pickling salt

You will need a large blender container with lid or a food processor to mix up this recipe. You will want to … Continue Reading

Cornbread is the perfect accompaniment to a big bowl of chili.  Perfect for game day or on a cold, rainy day, a big bowl of steaming hot chili with just the right amount of kick to it is so good.  Here is the perfect recipe for and easy to make cornbread to go with your chili, with a nice little kick to it too.

Mexican Corn Bread with Peppers Recipe

1 cup yellow corn meal
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 cup whole milk
1 1/2 tablespoons butter, melted
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 large egg, well beaten
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 small jalapeno, finely chopped

Mix together … Continue Reading

There are many popular local favorites when it comes to barbeque sauces and one local favorite in the south is McClard’s BBQ. McClard’s BBQ restaurant is located in Hot Springs, Arkansas and opened their business in 1928. They are famous for their bbq sauce recipe and the story goes that it was given to the family back in the 1920′s by a traveler who couldn’t pay his trailer’s lot rent. In exchange, he gave the McClard’s family his secret recipe for a fabulous bbq sauce. The McClard family loved the recipe and the sauce so much that they opened a … Continue Reading

There are thousands and thousands of hot pepper sauce fans around the world and many of these hot pepper sauce fans will sample hundreds of sauces and then write reviews on what they thought about the sauce. You will find these hot sauce reviews published in newspapers, foodie and/or cooking magazines and on various web sites and right here on our blog.

It is important that when you are reading various hot pepper sauce reviews to remember that every taste tester has different taste buds and likes and dislikes. So just because one person likes such and such brand of … Continue Reading