|
 New Products
We're really excited to announce that our product range is growing! We've added some awesome new chillies, a selection of authentic herbs & spices and a couple of recipe kit products. The new chillies are cascabel, pasilla and piquin. Cascabel are a relatively mild, flavourful chilli – smoky with a hint of liquorice and used to make sauces like adobo, pasilla again relatively mild but with a wonderful sweet fruity flavour a bit like prunes. Pasilla by the way are used in mole poblano, the spicy chocolate sauce synonymous with Mexico. Piquin pack a punch and are definitely the hot ones out of this trio! They're great for putting into soups and stews whole or crushing down as a condiment and have a deliciously rich flavour. You can read all about our expanded chilli range here: http://bit.ly/nItNhU
Our new authentic mexican herbs & spices selection is something we've been planning for a while and finally we managed to track down a top quality producer. Our herbs & spices are the real deal and go hand in hand with our chillies in many of the Mexican recipes on our website and beyond: Mexican oregano with it's wonderfully deep earthy and floral flavour – noticably different to it's European equivalent; Mexican cinnamon otherwise known as canela or true cinnamon is a much mellower contender than the cinnamon (cassia) you get in supermarkets; annatto powder, a spice from the Achiote tree - Bright orange it was originally used by the Mayans to make war paint – until someone tasted it and it's been used in cooking ever since; and epazote a herb alot of people haven't heard of outside of Mexico, has a herbaceous and citrussy flavour. We tried some in our shrimp soup recipe a couple of weeks ago and it complimented the Chipotle very well indeed!
You can read more about these in our herbs and spices section: http://bit.ly/qpnYpx
Website relaunch
 Richard our web developer has been busy upgrading and tweaking the website over the past couple of week and made some huge improvements making it much easier for you to use. We're so happy about it that we're running a 10% off promotion on all purchases over £10 for this weekend*, so now's a great time to stock up on your favourite chillies or try out our new products!
To get your 10% discount simply add the products you want to your basket and then enter "TENNER" in the voucher code box at the checkout and the system will apply your 10% discount.
* offer ends at midnight on Sunday 2nd October 2011
New Packaging
This may well be more exciting to us than anyone else but we thought it was worth a mention! All our new and existing products now come in our new packaging: Ultra high quality stand up pouches with tamper proof seals that will keep your chillies better protected and make them easier to store. Alot of our chillies are now available in 2 different pack sizes as well. For those of you out there that are always itching for a reason to use your smart phone we've added QR codes to the back of our packs so that you can scan a pack and get all the recipes using that product at the touch of a button instead of having to print the recipes out.
New recipes this month
We've got some great new recipes including chicken fajitas, a 3 chilli adobo sauce, shrimp soup (Caldo de Cameron Seco), achiote chicken and Mexican rice. You can read more about these recipes here: http://bit.ly/qtHk64
Also we're very lucky in that Manju Malhi TV Chef extraordinaire has let us publish some of her very delicious Indian recipes. Manju's recipes can be found here http://bit.ly/nZ8M8O
|
