Feast Your Eyes on This Spicy Cooking Challenge 2013- Round 2 Contestant Videos
This Round is sponsored by Cajun Heat
Round 2 is being sponsored by our 2011 Feast Your Eyes on This Spicy Cooking Champion, Clement Bourg of Cajun Heat. He will be a guest judge and give a $50 gift card to the winner of this round. Winner of 2012 Golden Chile Award for Best New Product at Zestfest, Best BBQ Sauce of 2012 from ScottRobertsWeb.com and winner of ILIS’ Lenny Award for Best Product of the Year for 2012, Cajun Heat’s C’est Bon Cajun-Q is a product you need to experience. It is special when the bloggers and the industry both agree on what the best products are, and we got it right this time. Check out this BBQ sauce and more award winning Cajun-style products by clicking on the Cajun Heat picture above. I would also like to give a big thank you for the surprise video studio in a box that Clement bestowed upon me Saturday afternoon. I imagine once I open it up, my video production value will immensely improve. Too bad I can’t get a more charismatic persona to take my place. 😀 Thank you much Clement for being more than a friend to yours truly.
Round 2 Challenge:
Refining Fire Chiles sent all the contestants a couple of dried Jay’s Peach Ghost Scorpion Chile Peppers. They had to use these super hot chile peppers in a pasta dish of some kind and add something green for St Patrick’s Day. They did not have to make the dish green, they just had to use something whether it was an herb, vegetable or some moldy cheese. They all had 6 minutes in which to make their video, accept for Sam who by winning round 1 gets to have an additional 2 minutes added to his video if he so chooses. Thanks to Jim Duffy for sending the chiles to our contestants. I hope they can handle the heat.
Happy St. Patty’s Day to all our Irish friends & a very happy birthday to our contestant Tina Tillman!
We have prizes valued over $3,000 this year. Thanks to our great sponsors:
Houston Hot Sauce Festival – Free Booth
Zestfest Midwest – Free Booth
Chile Pepper Magazine – Huge Advertising Package
Endorphin Farms – $400 in cash prizes
Refining Fire Chiles – $150 in cash prizes
Plus our weekly $50 prize sponsors!
Our talented Judges:
Carol Borge
www.HoustonHotSauce.com
Judy Fuhrhop (now replacing Greg Bagarozy)
www.zestfestmidwest.com
Sir McMillan
www.chilepepper.com
Scott Roberts
www.ScottRobertsweb.com
Firehead Thomas
www.ILoveItSpicy.com
Guest Judge:
Clement Bourg
Cajun Heat
Feast Your Eyes Challenge Calendar: (All Videos will be posted at 9am est.)
February 27 Contestant Intro Videos were released LINK
March 6- 1st Challenge LINK
March 9- Midnight is the deadline for the 1st challenge
March 10- All Contestant Videos are posted LINK
March 13- 2nd Challenge LINK
March 16- Midnight Deadline for 2nd challenge
March 17- All Contestant Videos are posted
March 20- 3rd Challenge
March 23- Midnight Deadline for 3rd Challenge
March 24- All Contestant Videos are posted
March 27- 4th Challenge
March 30- Midnight Deadline for 4th Challenge
March 31- All Contestant Videos are posted
April 3- 5th Challenge
April 6- Midnight Deadline for 5th Challenge
April 7- All Contestant Videos are posted
April 10- 6th & Final Challenge
April 13- Midnight Deadline for Final Challenge
April 14- Finalist Videos are posted
April 17- Winner is announced!
THERE IS A POLL AT THE BOTTOM OF THE VIDEOS SO PEOPLE CAN PICK THEIR FAVORITES. Now to the videos…
Jennifer Reynolds of Sauce Goddess
Mike Isenberg of Wicked Cactus Sauces
Kevin Billings of High Octane Sauce Company
Sam Peters of Patter Fam Sauces
Tina Tillman of Chesterville Pepper Company
Bo Perkins of Addiction Sauces
Tracy Carter of JAC’s Tailgaters
Eliminated due to video issues
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We are missing 1 video from Tracy. Tracy was the only contestant that did not get his Jay’s Ghost Scorpion peppers in time and as a result they had to be reshipped and that delivery didn’t arrive until late Friday. That threw the cooking all out of whack, and his filming did not start until midnight. I extended his deadline as a result, so his video will be up late. Hopefully not too much longer.
Bo’s and Tina’s videos were submitted late too and the judges will act accordingly with the rules and points will be deducted.
Omg Mike, that looks awesome! I love pho!
WHAT!?! No leprechaun?
Tracy had to be eliminated due to video issues. It is unfortunate that he has to be taken out this way. Thank you Tracy for at least trying.
Sam’s dish looks absolutely delicious! Food Network should be calling any time now!
Bummer
Thanks Adam, I’ll sit here and wait for the phone to ring. haha.
I never figured Bo Perkins to be a Jane’s Addiction fan….
Firehea?
All of these recipes looked spectacular, but I’m totally diggin’ Mike’s Pho recipe. Absolutely outta the box thinking. Nice job, Mike.
If the contestants don’t mind I would like to post their vids on my website to promote them and the contest.
Go ahead Jim. I am book with it.
fine with me
Jim, embed it from where its at so we can still track the views on youtube. Not a problem otherwise.
Jim, that is fine with me. I love the peach ghost scorpion peppers btw!
Having leftovers of my entry for lunch, that ghost chili just gets hotter day after day…nose running, lips burning, good stuff!!
they all really look good, but Bo’s really stands out. thanks for sharing
yes Jim post away. I have been eating my spicy pasta all week.. it’s is so great. I’m hoping to use more of that chili in a later week.
We had leftover Pasta Florentine last night for dinner. Fantastic! The homemade sundried tomato scorpion ketchup went great with the scorpion tempura battered veggies too! I still have a little of the scorpion powder leftover. Looking forward to using that in something soon! Thanks Jim.
Mmmm
Enjoyed a great breakfast sandwich this morning with a fried egg, chorizo sausage, American cheese and the scorpion basil pesto I made for this challenge. Gotta tell you, it was AWESOME! Thanks Jim Duffy for the pepper.