Scorned Woman Chipotle & Garlic Pepper Sauce

Is great flavor important to you when selecting a hot sauce? Do you enjoy the pungent flavor of garlic? How about the smoky, fiery heat of chipotles? If you answered yes to these 3 questions, then Scorned Woman Chipotle & Garlic Pepper Sauce is for you. Not nearly as hot as the original Scorned Woman Hot Sauce, this hot sauce is all about the flavor. Moderately spicy on the heat scale (about a mild medium to most folks), this zesty hot sauce features the robust flavors of chipotle and garlic in a tangy -- but not overly vinegary -- base, making it an excellent choice when you want to add complementary flavors with a fiesty kick. I like this hot sauce on pretty much anything grilled: hamburgers, veggie burgers, chicken, shrimp, veggie kabobs and the like. As you can imagine, it's also quite good on nachos, burritos, tacos and other Tex-Mex and Southwestern fare. I've even been known to splash it on pizza and spaghetti to rev up the flavor. Scorned Woman Chipotle Garlic Sauce also works well in hearty recipes including pretty much anything with ground meat, plus stews, casseroles, bean dishes, roasted vegetables and the like. Use a dash or two on rotisserie chicken, deli sandwiches and leftovers from last night's dinner to wake up your palate. At only $4.25 for a full-size 5oz bottle when you order it from the Carolina Sauce Company, Scorned Woman Chipotle Garlic Pepper Sauce is a great deal!

Zestfully yours,
Gloria

PS: If you're counting carbs or watching your sodium intake, you'll be glad to know that this hot sauce has no carbs and only 25mg of sodium per teaspoon.

Carolina Sauce Coupon Sale Ends Tomorrow!

Tomorrow is the end of the month, and it's also the end of our special July coupon sale. Save 10% off the following products at the Carolina Sauce Company online store when you use the coupon code Blog710. There's no minimum purchase required -- simply enter the coupon online in the "coupon code" field on the billing page, or mention the coupon when ordering by phone, and you'll receive 10% off even already-discounted sale prices. The Blog710 coupon expires TOMORROW, July 31, 2010, and is good on the following zesty products:

Bear-Man Growlin' Grizzly BBQ & Grilling Sauce
D'Vine Muscadine BBQ Sauce
Ole Time Barbecue Sauce
Ole Time Hot Sauce
Pit Road BBQ Sauce
Tarheel Premium Honey Barbeque Sauce
Tarheel Premium Original BBQ Sauce
Uncle Pete's Bar-B-Que Sauces
Bubba's Special Sauce
Mad Dog Inferno Hot Sauce
Red's Sweet Salsa
Capsicana Zing Gourmet Sauce, 5oz bottle
Burning Asphalt Blazin' Habanero Ketchup
Burning Asphalt Zesty Jalapeno Ketchup
Trolly Stop Hot Mustard Sauce
Burning Asphalt Homestyle Steak Sauce
Burning Asphalt Sweet Pepper Steak & Dipping Sauce
Carolina Sauce Co. Mountain Pepper Jellies, all 4 varieties
Walkerswood One Stop Savory Sauce
DEFCON 3 Mild Wing Sauce
Tony's Birdland Wing Sauces, all 3 flavors

Check out our July Newsletter for more info on the above products, AND for the Recipe of the Month plus 3 quick grilling tips, an update on Operation Sauce Drop, and other saucy news.

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Zestfully yours,
Gloria

Nando's Simple South African Drumsticks

You can make these super-easy, finger-lickin'-good grilled chicken drumsticks using your favorite flavor of Nando's Peri-Peri Marinades. Made in South Africa and featured in the world-famous Nando's Chickenland restaurants around the globe, Nando's marinades come in 4 delicious flavors including tomato-rich Portuguese BBQ, Tuscan-inspired Sun-Dried Tomato & Basil Marinade, citrusy Lime & Cilantro Marinade, and spicy Hot Peri-Peri Marinade with plenty of fiery South African bird's-eye peppers.

Ingredients
8 chicken drumsticks
1 bottle of Nando's Marinade

Place the chicken drumsticks in a resealable plastic bag and pour in enough marinade to coat completely. Marinate in refrigerator for as little as 30 minutes or up to 2 hours. Remove chicken from bag, discard used marinade and grill the drumsticks over indirect heat, frequently turning and basting with fresh marinade until chicken is fully cooked. That's it!

Zestfully yours,
Gloria

New Lower Price on Melinda's Habanero Ketchup!

Here at Carolina Sauce Company, we believe in passing along great deals to our customers whenever we can. Consistent with that philosophy, we're now offering Melinda's Habanero Ketchup at a new lower price! Originally $6.50 for a 13oz bottle, our new price is only $5.99 for the same size bottle. Melinda's all-natural ketchups are quite possibly the finest ketchups you can buy, made with only the highest-quality ingredients, absolutely NO high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), and nothing artificial at all -- plus they're Kosher, too! As a result, all three varieties of Melinda's ketchups tastes like real tomatoes, not some overly-sweet little-kids' condiment. Melinda's Habanero Ketchup is spiced with ripe red habaneros for a fiery kick that's hot but not unbearable, making it the perfect grown-up condiment for folks who enjoy hot & spicy foods. And at only $5.99 for a full-size bottle, you can now enjoy the best at a great lower price!

Zestfully yours,
Gloria

Semper Fi Marine Corps Hot Sauce

Dedicated to the brave men and women who serve and who have served in the US Marine Corps, Semper Fi Marine Corps Hot Sauce comes to us from Camp Lejeune NC, where it is a favorite on steaks, chops, burgers, and anything else that could use some serious firepower. This is a gourmet hot sauce made with all-natural ingredients according to the Caribbean style: Fiery red habanero peppers blended with carrots, onions and garlic in a vinegar-lime juice base, with just a dash of salt. The habanero flavor is straightforward with plenty of heat (about a 7 on a 10-point scale where 10 is hottest), but not so ridiculously hot that you can't taste your food. Semper Fi Hot Sauce is great as an everyday hot table sauce to splash on everything from breakfast eggs, sausage, hash browns etc. to lunchtime sandwiches, burgers, pizzas, tacos etc. to dinner entrees like grilled meats, roast chicken, pasta, Mexican/Tex-Mex/Southwestern and other hearty fare. Because this is an honest hot sauce without additional flavorings (e.g., no herbs, mustard, smoke etc.), it also works well in all sorts of recipes when you want to add fiery heat without altering the essential flavor of the recipe -- for example, chili, meatloaf and other ground-meat dishes, casseroles, stews, homemade salsa and spaghetti sauce, rice & beans, and more.

If you're looking for a gift for a Marine who enjoys zesty foods, you can't go wrong with Semper Fi Marine Corps Hot Sauce: The elegant gold-foil label features the Marine Corps emblem, AND when you purchase this sauce from the Carolina Sauce Company we donate a dollar for every bottle sold to Operation Sauce Drop, our nonprofit program that sends free gift boxes of hot sauce, BBQ sauce & salsa to US troops serving abroad. To see other products that help support our deployed troops, check out our Shop to Support Operation Sauce Drop offerings. Semper Fi Hot Sauce has no artificial ingredients or preservatives and has zero carbs, making it a healthy, as well as patriotic, choice for spicing up your food.

Zestfully yours,
Gloria

Final Week for Carolina Sauce July Coupon Sale!

As you already know if you subscribe to the Carolina Sauce eNewsletter, July is National Grilling Month. To celebrate this zesty month, our July eNewsletter includes a special coupon code that gets you 10% off select sauces and seasonings, including some already-discounted sale items -- but only through July 31st, which is this coming Saturday. Want to find the coupon code, and get July's featured recipe as well as some useful grilling tips and info on our latest new products? It's easy: Read this month's Carolina Sauce Newsletter here on this blog and you'll have what you need to make your next cookout or bbq a huge success, AND the special coupon code to help you save some money, too!

Don't delay, because the July coupon code is good THIS WEEK ONLY and expires at midnight on Saturday, July 31st!

Zestfully yours,
Gloria

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5 Easy Tips to Make Summer Dining Special

When the weather is hot, dinner tends to become simpler and more casual, at least around my house. Whether you're entertaining friends in the summer heat or simply grilling dinner for your family out on the patio, you can still add some special little touches to the dining experience. Here are five quick & easy tips that you can use any time of year, but especially for summertime dining:

1. Serve a simple appetizer of chutney or preserves poured over a block of cream cheese, with crackers or fresh vegetables like carrots and celery.

2. If serving lemonade, punch or iced tea, freeze some of the beverage in one or more ice cube trays ahead of time to use as ice in the drink without diluting it the way regular water ice cubes would.

3. Add an elegant garnish to plates by using curled vegetables: Slice one or more carrots and celery stalks in half crosswise, and then lengthwise into thin strips and soak in ice water for a few minutes until curled.

4. If serving sandwiches, keep them from getting soggy by spreading a very thin layer of butter or margarine on the "inner" side of each piece of bread before assembling the sandwich (use an herbed butter if you want to add some flavor).

5. Fresh fruit makes a light summer dessert, but some cut fruit will discolor quickly which makes it trickier to prepare ahead of time. To keep fresh cut fruit such as apple wedges, peaches or bananas from discoloring before serving, place in a shallow container and cover with an acidic juice such as lemon, orange or pineapple.

Zestfully yours,
Gloria

Zesty Island Shrimp & Rice

This recipe is from the folks who make the aptly-named and fiendishly delicious Pain Is Good Hot Sauces, with the famous "screaming head" labels. The original recipe calls for 1/5 cup of each juice, which I find difficult to measure (I've yet to find a 1/5 cup measuring cup), so I simply use a "scant 1/4 cup" instead. I also prefer to use organic, low-sodium chicken broth, but you can use regular. And if I'm serving this to someone who hates cilantro, I substitute parsley instead (or you can omit the green stuff altogether).

Ingredients
1 lb peeled & deveined shrimp with tails on
1/3 cup Pain Is Good #114 Jamaican Style Hot Sauce
scant 1/4 cup freshly squeezed lime juice, divided into 2 equal portions
scant 1/4 cup fresh pineapple juice, divided into 2 equal portions
1/8 cup fresh cilantro, finely chopped
2 Tbs olive oil
1 cup white rice
1 1/2 cups chicken broth

In a resealable gallon-size storage bag, combine the shrimp, olive oil, one portion of each juice, and the Pain is Good Jamaican hot sauce. Seal tightly, shake to combine and refrigerate for 2 hours. For the rice, bring the broth and the remaining juice to a boil in a small pot. Add the rice and cilantro, stir, and lower the heat to a simmer. Cover and cook for 20 to 25 minutes until done, then keep warm while you cook the shrimp. To prepare the shrimp, skewer the shrimp evenly on 4 metal skewers. Discard used marinade. Grill them for 3 to 4 minutes on each side, turning once, until shrimp is cooked through. Serve on top of the cooked rice.

Note: I sometimes add some chunks of fresh pineapple and bell pepper to the marinating shrimp, and then skewer & grill the pineapple and pepper to serve with the shrimp and rice. These take longer to cook than the shrimp, so I usually start grilling them while the rice is cooking and before grilling the shrimp.

Zestfully yours,
Gloria

Spiced Iced Tea

Masala Chai, or Indian spiced tea, is commonly enjoyed hot with milk in India, but this chilled version is quite refreshing on a hot day. Serves 4.

Ingredients
2 1/2 cups water
2 tsp orange pekoe tea leaves OR 1 teabag
4 cloves
1 inch cinnamon stick
Pinch ground cardamom*
Crushed ice
Fresh lemon or lime juice
Sugar to taste

Place the tea, cloves, cinnamon stick, cardamom and sugar to taste in a teapot. Bring 1 cup of water to a boil, then pour the boiling water and steep, covered, for up to 5 minutes. Stir well, strain, and combine with the remaining water. Allow to cool. Fill 4 tall glasses with crushed ice and lemon or lime juice to taste, then pour in the cooled tea mixture and stir.

*Note: For authentic flavor, use freshly crushed cardamom seeds: Remove the seeds from 4 green cardamoms (discard the pods and membranes), then crush the seeds with a mortar & pestle.

Zestfully yours,
Gloria
Carolina Sauce Company