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Spotlight Spice: Pumpkin Pie Spice Blend

With the holidays fast approaching, it’d be remiss of us to not take an opportunity to spotlight our Pumpkin Pie Spice Blend. Our signature blend is the perfect balance of warm and rich spiciness for your baked treats.

This baking spice blend brings together all the spices you’d expect – cloves, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and allspice and adds an unexpected element – a pinch of white pepper. Why white pepper?  White pepper helps to amplify the coziness and warmth of the blend without adding the sharp bite of black pepper.

We love to use this blend of spices in place of any cloves, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, or allspice our recipe requires. We recommend using two or three teaspoons of the blend for a 9-inch pumpkin pie.  Our Pumpkin Pie Spice Blend is good for much more than pumpkin pie, too. Give it a try in sweet batter breads like zucchini and banana breads, in carrot and coffee cakes, and to add a bit of spicy goodness to your favorite muffins. It’s also a tasty option for seasoning roasted winter veggies like squash, turnips, parsnips and sweet potatoes or breakfast treats like waffles and pancakes.

@jackfruitfulkitchen’s PSL smoothie

Many of our customers swear by using the blend in the smoothies and protein shakes. It’d be a perfect shortcut in Chris’s (from Capital Chiropractic & Rehabilitation Center) pumpkin pie smoothie, or give it a try in Jackie’s (from @jackfruitfulkitchen on Instagram) Pumpkin Spice Latte smoothie.

Grab yourself a jar and give it a shot! Find a new favorite use we didn’t mention? Share it with us in the comments below.

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Turkey Talk: Which Rub is Right for me?

If you’re an astute AllSpice shopper, you may have noticed we carry both an Herbed Poultry Seasoning Blend and a Turkey & Poultry Seasoning. So, what’s the deal? Why do we need both? While they’re both delicious, they have very different flavors.

Our Herbed Poultry Seasoning Blend is salt-free for starters. The base of this blend is thyme, sage and black pepper, which starts things out with warm, savory, and herbaceous  flavor. Coriander, and other spices are added to the mix, adding a nutty and citrusy freshness, which makes this blend great for pork, poultry and fish. In this blend, salt-free definitely does not mean flavorless.

The Turkey & Poultry Seasoning starts with sea salt, then adds sage, black pepper, garlic, onion, chili powder, paprika and several other spices. While it’s still a savory blend, sharp and pungent garlic and onion add tons of flavor, and the chili powder and paprika give the blend some depth without making things overly spicy. The inclusion of sage immediately reminds us of traditional holiday flavors.

Either blend will help you create a perfect turkey dinner. If you’re going for traditional holiday flavors, we recommend the Turkey & Poultry Seasoning. If you want something a bit different or salt-free give the Herbed Poultry Seasoning Blend a shot. Or, grab both! We’ve found a lot of folks enjoy using the Turkey & Poultry Seasoning for the turkey and the Herbed Poultry Seasoning Blend in the stuffing.

Pick up a jar and find more of our favorite uses for each blend on their product pages: Herbed Poultry Seasoning Blend / Turkey & Poultry Seasoning.

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Spotlight Spice: Gusto Pizza Co. Pizza Seasoning Blend

This Friday (Oct. 9) is International Beer and Pizza day – and you’d better bet we’re not going to let that one pass without celebrating! We’re getting out one of our favorite blends, created by the guys at Gusto Pizza Co. – it’s the aptly-named Gusto Pizza Co. Pizza Seasoning Blend!

For pizza out, Gusto is our go-to. And it’s because they consistently create some seriously delicious and creative pies. The Deburgo is a Des Moines-inspired favorite, and we love the Asian flare of the spicy Thai Kwon Dough (see what they did there?). But sometimes we’ve got a hankering for a homemade pizza. There’s just nothing quite like it. It’s almost as if restaurant pizza and homemade pizza are two completely different things.

What’s consistent is our love of (liberally) shaking the jar of Gusto Pizza Co. Pizza Seasoning Blend over each slice. In fact, it’s become as critical at the table on pizza night as the shaker of parmesan cheese and the jar of Crushed Red Pepper Chile.

Gusto Pizza Co. Pizza Seasoning Blend is far from a one-trick pony. We also like to use it as a sandwich sprinkle, seasoning for red sauce, topper for our garlic bread, and sprinkled atop a dish of extra virgin olive oil as a bread dipper.

You can find a jar to take home in the shop, the online store, or at one of the Gusto Pizza Co. locations in the Des Moines area. Grab a jar, a pie, and your favorite beer and celebrate!

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There’s a chill in the air

There’s a chill in the air, and we’ve got chili on our minds.

Chili con carne (chili for short) is the chili we know and love. Like most things historic, it’s tough to get a straight answer on where chili came from. Stories range from easily believable (it was brought to the Texas area by immigrants from the Spanish Canary Islands) to more colorful (it was brought to the Southwestern United States by the spirit of a Spanish nun known by Native Americans as La Dama de Azul, who never physically left Spain).

What’s true? You be the judge.

We do know chili has strong roots in Texas – particularly in the San Antonio area. Chili is such a beloved dish in Texan cuisine that the state legislature declared it the official state food in 1977. If you don’t live in Texas, you might be surprised to learn traditional Texas Chili does not include beans. If you challenge a true Texan on that, you’d better be ready to run.

Here at AllSpice we’ve amassed quite the collection of tasty chili recipes. Some honor Texas tradition by being bean-free and others are chock-full of beans. You can find them all – including Iowa State Fair prize winners – in the AllSpice recipe library.

In true AllSpice style, we’ve also got a collection of blends to help you perfectly season your pot of chili.

Our Chili Powder, Medium spice blend is a great place to start. It combines mild ancho chiles with traditional chili flavors of cumin, garlic, and more to create a flavorful chili everyone will enjoy.

Like things with a spicy kick? Then move to our Chili Powder, Hot spice blend which amps up the heat by layering in spicier dried chiles.

And we couldn’t talk chili without having something traditionally Texan. Our Texas Chili Seasoning is on the milder side and has a unique and delicious smokey flavor.

We’re dying to know how you like your chili! Beans or no beans? Spicy or mild? Saltines or cracker-free? Tell us in the comments.

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Spotlight Spice: Five Onion Dip Seasoning

School is back in session and fall activities have started. Pumpkin spice everything is lining the shelves at the grocery store. Ready or not, it feels like autumn has arrived.

We don’t know about you, but we always find ourselves just a little busier than we’d like to be this time of year. This week’s Spotlight Spice is here to help simplify things in the kitchen without sacrificing deliciousness – it’s our Five Onion Dip Seasoning!

This blend’s most obvious use is to make…wait for it…five onion dip! For a perfect after-school snack, mix 1/3 cup of Five Onion Dip Seasoning into a 16 oz container of sour cream, add a little salt, and voila…you have an onion dip perfect for chips and fresh veggies.

Don’t let the name stifle your creativity. Five Onion Dip Seasoning also makes a perfect addition to fall soups and stews, is a tasty dry rub for grilled and baked chicken, turkey, and seafood, and is amazing whipped in with your mashed potatoes. Try sprinkling it on your favorite simple weeknight casserole to give it some extra umph. It’s perfect in any dish you’d think about adding onion to.

The best part? This savory blend is a mix of onions, herbs, and spices – no funny business (we’re looking at you hydrogenated soybean oil and guar gum – yuck!).

Feeling saucy? Find variations on the standard five onion dip recipe in the AllSpice recipe library. Have a favorite use for Five Onion Dip Seasoning we didn’t mention? Tell us all about it in the comments!

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