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Desert Pepper Trading Company
Tequila Salsa. Alcohol has become a trendy
ingredient in candies, jams and sauces. Here,
silver tequila meets roasted tomato and tomato puree, chiles (a green, jalapeño and chipotle
puree), natural mesquite smoke, cilantro and lime
for a medium-hot, party-ready condiment. Serve
straight up or stir into guacamole. desertpepper.com
Hypnotically swirled lollipops in seven colors
and favors that will make you dizzy with delight!
You're getting hungry... very, very hungry.
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Frontera Foods Salpica Salsa Roja
and Salpica Salsa Verde. Made in
small batches, the "nuevo Tex-Mex" Salpica
product line from Frontera Foods and chef
Rick Bayless pairs Mexican flavors with "the
style of Texas." The two newest products
in the line, both medium-heat and ideal
with tortilla chips, tacos or eggs, feature
fire-roasted ingredients. Salsa Roja contains
roasted fresh tomato, fresh cilantro, guajillo and chipotle chiles and
white vinegar. Salsa Verde is built from roasted fresh tomatillos and
tomatoes; green, serrano and Anaheim chiles; lime juice and fresh
cilantro. fronterakitchens.com
Winter Fancy Food Show Booth 656
Jardine Foods Pasilla, Arbol and Morita
Chile Salsas. Launched this past summer these
three salsas were created around so-called designer
peppers. Dark-hued, mild- to medium-heat Pasilla
includes tomatillos and fresh onion, garlic, jalapeños, cilantro and lime juice. Hot Arbol melds
tomatoes with small, potent, red chile de arbol, plus
jalapeño and poblano. Medium-hot Morita (another name for smoky chipotle peppers) is rounded out
with tomatoes and lime. jardinefoods.com
Milo's JB's Best Salsas, including
Tripple Pepper Salsa Verde and
Black Bean, Corn and Cilantro.
All five salsas in the new JB's Best Sauces
line include an unexpected ingredient:
tequila, plus a surfeit of locally grown
produce. The most recently introduced
among them is the mild Triple Pepper Salsa
Verde, with fire-roasted poblano, plus jalapeño and serrano peppers. Other offerings include the mild black bean, corn and cilantro
(with locally grown black beans); medium roasted garlic (with locally
grown low-heat jalapeños); medium mango pineapple (with fresh
mint); and hot Sizzling Summer Peach (with locally grown jalapeños
and peaches, plus fresh ginger). jbsauces.com
Winter Fancy Food Show Booth 616
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