• Pear Pepper Jelly

    One of my small pleasures in life is finding some odd things that pair well with other odd things. Not even necessarily odd things, just really two things you wouldn't always juxtapose. This recipe is a perfect example. One year I was gifted a large amount of Anjou pears from a relative's tree. Although I will eat them raw, pears are not at the top of my list of favorite hand fruits. So, that left me with cooking a bunch.

  • Peach and Habanero Hot Sauce

    It's hard to think of the two words "Louisiana" and "condiment" together and not think of hot sauce. Although the idea of combining peppers and water didn't originate in Louisiana, (most agree the Aztecs were the first to develop some kind of hot sauce) it was a Louisiana man who first popularized hot sauce on a mass scale. Edmund McIlhenny founded the popular Tabasco brand on Avery Island in Louisiana and helped the rest of the world discover this perfect blend of rich, spicy, yumminess. I've spent many sleepless nights trying to figure out what in the hell people put on their oyster poboys and tossed their buffalo wings in…