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Spotlight Spice (Cinco de Mayo Edition): Mexican Blast Blend

In this week’s Spotlight Spice (Cinco de Mayo edition), we’re highlighting our Mexican Blast Blend. Our favorite word to describe this blend is vivacious! It adds a subtle smokiness and kick of heat to any dish.

The blend draws its ingredients from Mexican and Southwestern cuisine, including smoky chipotle chiles and earthy Mexican oregano. Additional chiles and Mediterranean oregano provide balance. It’s a fiesta of flavors!

Toss on a shaker lid and give it a try on your pizza and pasta dishes. It’s even great on fresh fruits – especially pineapple, mango, and melons.

It’s an awesome ingredient for a zingy vinaigrette. Try it with fruity olive oils and vinegars. The oil in the vinaigrette does draw out the capsaicin (hot bits) of the chiles, so go light on the seasoning and mix it right when you plan to use it. If salads aren’t your jam, make a tasty marinade for shrimp and white fish by combining a dash or two with our Persian Lime Fused Olive Oil, a bit of lime juice, and a splash of vodka.

And, as an added bonus, this blend is salt free! Find our recipes for Chorizo-Tequila Queso Dip and Mexican Blast Fish Tacos in the AllSpice recipe library, and pick up a jar in the shop or online store. ¡Es múy délicioso!

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Spotlight Spice: Adobo Seasoning

This week’s we’re shining the spotlight on our Adobo Seasoning. This blend of spices has roots in Iberia (Spain and Portugal) where it originally described a technique for preserving foods in a sauce or marinade. Over time it evolved into a general purpose seasoning used in a wide variety of Latin American dishes.

Our Adobo Seasoning is a blend of garlic with salt, paprika, onion, annatto seed and other herbs and spices which combine to create a flavorful, garlicky seasoning. The addition of just a touch of honey powder adds a bit of sweetness to an otherwise savory blend. If you like a flavorful “spicy” seasoning that isn’t hot, this is the blend for you.

We most frequently use the blend to create an adobado or adobada (a fancy name for a meat dish marinade or seasoned with an adobo). The blend is ready to use as a rub or simply combine it with an Extra Virgin Olive Oil to create a marinade. It’s best on fish, chicken, and steak.

Adobo Seasoning is also an excellent addition to hearty stews or as a flavor booster for your salsa or guacamole. Try adding a bit to your homemade enchiladas and other Spanish and Portuguese inspired dishes.

Find our recipes featuring Adobo Seasoning in the AllSpice recipe library. Pick up a jar in the shop or online store and give it a try!

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Spotlight Spice: Nashville Hot Chicken Seasoning

This week’s Spotlight Spice is hot ‘n spicy (and a little sweet too), and perfect for Game Day! It’s our Nashville Hot Chicken Seasoning.

Famous Nashville Hot Chicken is spicy fried chicken served on slices of squishy white bread, often with pickles. This Music City chicken is known to pack a punch of heat in its crispy outer coating of sweet sugar, garlic, and fiery cayenne chiles. Our Nashville Hot Chicken Seasoning brings all the flavors of this culinary specialty to you conveniently in a single jar.

Aaaand, the blend is great for more than just traditional Nashville Hot Chicken! It makes snacking easy, as it’s a perfect ingredient for tasty Game Day snacks! We love using it as a rub to flavor our hot wings, combining it with sour cream to make a simple chip dip, using it as a key ingredient in our tasty hot chicken dip, or adding to a spicy batch of spicy pulled chicken for sandwiches.

If you like spicy, you’re gonna love this seasoning. Pick up a jar in the shop or online and get ready to break a sweat!

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Spotlight Spice: Sassy Salt & Vinegar Seasoning

This week’s Spotlight Spice is SASSY (almost as sassy as this little gal)!

It’s our Sassy Salt & Vinegar Seasoning. Tanginess from the vinegar and a kick of salt are evened out with just a hint of sweetness from sugar. This blend is an amazing popcorn topper (you’ll find this blend in our POP[CORN]! gift set) but don’t be afraid to give it a try in other spots too.

The English do it best – and they’ll tell you these flavors belong on chips. We recommend it on American chips (chips) and English chips (fries) and roasted potatoes too. It’s also good on other roasted veggies and we’ve even heard some folks like it on their wings.

Pick up a jar in the shop or online and let us know your favorite way to use it!

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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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