New Braunfels Market Days

We discovered a wonderful new place to shop - New Braunfels Market Days. It's open every Saturday from 9 to 1, rain or shine. Many booths have homemade items from foods to clothes to jewelry. Even a booth for homemade animal treats & foods. Also the sponsors feature live outdoor music to shop by! Another wonderful feature is the organic & home grown fruits & vegetables. I was able to purchase some wonderful homemade garlic & spinach linquine and at another booth, fresh homemade mozzarella cheese, and at yet another booth sweet green onions. Yummy!

At our booth, we featured our jams, of course, with all kinds of peppers. The most popular were the Apricot Orange Habanera and Strawberry Chipotle. It was so much fun to watch as people tasted the jam & see how their taste buds registered the sweet & peppers on their tongues. For those of you who don't know, our taste buds register different flavors in different places on our tongue. It is quite an interesting experience.

The newest addition to our pepper line is candy. This week we featured Habanera Fudge, Raspberry Habanera Toffee, a mild & hot version of Jalapeno Toffee, & hot Habanera Toffee. They are all good; if I do say so myself; but the most popular at this show was the hot Habanera Fudge &  hot  Jalapeno Toffee. The mild Habanera Fudge and Raspberry Habanera Toffee are so mild the young children who stopped by the booth with their parents could eat these without a problem.

We will be at New Braunfels Market Days again at the end of March. Come by & see us. We will have samples to taste!

Howdy to all the Pepper Jam Fans

This is our first blog of the year! For those of you not familiar with us, we have been in the food business for many years catering events. Recently we decided to expand our business to include pepper jams and pepper candies. Our first show of this year was at Goliad Market Days in Goliad, Texas in January. It was extremely successful. One of the most popular jams was the Blackberry Keylime Habanera. Our jams range on the heat index from 1 to 10; 10 being the hottest or just a hint of peppers to very spicy. The Blackberry Keylime Habanera falls into the middle of the jam range.

Our next show in Goliad will be on February 11, 2012. It is the 2nd Saturday in February for those of you without a calendar handy. We will be featuring Ghost Pepper Jams and Pepper Toffees. Come by our booth if you're in the area.

However, if you can't make it to Goliad then you can always find us at www.etsy.com/shop/GrueneAcresKitchen or www.pick3jam.com or on facebook at Texas Pepper Jam.