Chili Pepper News — hot sauce

Making Meals Spicy… and Kid Friendly

Making Meals Spicy… and Kid Friendly

You may have noticed that our recipe blog is constantly growing. Posts range from starters and salads to main dishes and then on to dessert; and each one features Mad Dog hot sauces, purees, pepper pods, or extracts. Sure we love adding hot sauce to foods that have already been prepared, but there’s almost nothing like Mad Dog cooked into meals.

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The California Hot Sauce Festival

The California Hot Sauce Festival

Last year was the first, but the California Hot Sauce Festival was so good that it was never going to be the last. (As if we needed more proof that chili head numbers are growing exponentially!)

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The Hot Sauce Industry Is Hot

The Hot Sauce Industry Is Hot

Even if you’re keeping to a Paleo diet, you’re not eating the same things your ancestors did. No one is. That’s because what could have been available in a certain area and what was available to most people were two very different things. If you think about just how novel some crops were in different parts of the world, you’d shiver in your shoes – maybe even literally as you might choose to go without food for a while.

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You Should Be Dousing Your Food with Hot Sauce

You Should Be Dousing Your Food with Hot Sauce

Why stop with a drop or two? Why not cover your food in hot sauce? Okay, we’ll make a few exceptions for that; we don’t recommend the following groups slather their food with hot sauce: Children Gastro-intestinally challenged people Also, we’d like to make the following qualification for anyone that routinely adds a few drops of Mad Dog to their meals; that’s likely to be hot enough!

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