Recipes – I Love It Spicy!

Zestfest Midwest 2013: On Stage with Mike Isenberg from Wicked Cactus Sauces

July 8, 2013 Buddah 2013, Champion, cooking contest, Feast Your Eyes on This, Mike Isenberg, Spicy Cooking Challenge, Wicked Cactus Sauces, Zestfest Midwest

Right after I handed Mike Isenberg his Feast Your Eyes on This Spicy Cooking Challenge trophy at Zestfest Midwest, Mike entertained the crowd with a little of his cooking prowess. Showing a little of what him shine in our video contest, Mike shined on the main stage with a simple yet delicious chicken taco recipe. One of the bright moments from the Zestfest Midwest event shared with you now. Check it out and support Mike by checking out the Wicked Cactus Sauces website for some of the best hot sauces in your community.

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Feast Your Eyes on This Spicy Cooking Challenge 2013 Champion

April 17, 2013April 16, 2013 Buddah 2013, Champion, Feast Your Eyes on This, FYEOT, Spicy Cooking Challenge, Spicy Cooking Contest

Here we are ready to announce this year’s champion of our weekly spicy cooking contest. With so much at stake, it is never easy telling someone they didn’t win. This group of 8 contestants are arguably our best set we have had in the 3 years of doing these challenges. I want to thank them all for putting in all their time and showing off their spicy cooking prowess in our ever-growing community. This contest is far from perfect, but I hope we presented an entertaining enough format for people to enjoy, and for our combatants to feel comfortable in. We can’t make everyone happy because there can only be one champion, but everyone of our contestants deserve all the accolades they can get for bringing this contest to new heights with such delicious, mouth-watering spicy recipes. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for giving your all this year. Please give them all your support and go and visit their websites and show them your love and buy their great products.

To continue our thanks I have to really praise the great sponsors who let me organize a prize package valued over $3,000. For a small blog like mine that means I have a lot of great friends who really care. The overall winner of Feast Your Eyes on This Spicy Cooking Challenge will receive a free vendor booth from both the Houston Hot Sauce Festival & Zestfest Midwest. Plus, Chile Pepper Magazine will give an advertising package valued at over $2000. Cash prizes will also be awarded by Endorphin Farms & Refining Fire Chiles. Together, 1st place will receive an additional $300, the runner-up $150, and 3rd place $100. Plus, on top of all that good stuff, they will get one big ass trophy from yours truly. Without these awesome sponsors we would have no contest.

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Feast Your Eyes on This Spicy Cooking Challenge 2013- Contestant Videos The Finals

April 14, 2013April 14, 2013 Buddah Feast Your Eyes on This, Final Round, Round 6, Spicy Cooking Challenge, Spicy Cooking Contest, The Finals

Here we are in week 6 of our spicy cooking contest. We started with 8 contestants and have narrowed it down to the final 3. We want to congratulate Jennifer, Mike and Kevin for making it this far. Hopefully they brought their best and will make it very hard on our judges. As you will see with the prizes listed below, everyone is guaranteed at least $100. To be totally cliche here, there can only be one winner and to the winner goes the spoils. There is a lot riding on this contest, so I went and brought back our infamous judge from the last 2 FYEOT, CaJohn Hard to complete our 6 person panel. This is a man that knows something about winning contests.

Final Challenge

We wanted to create some twists in the last round to bring out their creativity. We told our contestants to make 3 dishes that would take traditional cuisine and not only make it spicy, but would also cross over to a completely different ethnicity. So our 3 dishes are:
1- Take an American favorite and put an International spin on it;
2- Take an International Dish and put an American spin on it;
3- Lastly take a popular International favorite and put another International twist on it.
NOTE: They will have 15 minutes to create their video. Both Mike and Jennifer were each a few minutes late with their videos and the judges will subtract 1/2 point from their rules portion of their score.

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Feast Your Eyes on This Spicy Cooking Challenge 2013- Round 5 Contestant Videos

April 7, 2013April 8, 2013 Buddah 2013, Feast Your Eyes on This, recipes, round table, sandwiches, Spicy Cooking Challenge, wrap. sandwich

This round is sponsored by Heartbreaking Dawns

Heartbreaking Dawns has brought the ultimate assortment of Award Winning products to the industry. With a variety of products ranging from dry rubs, grilling sauces, spicy preserves and of course hot sauce, they’ve been cranking out nothing but hits! If you haven’t tried their products yet, some of the must haves are the original Fiery Trail Preserves, the 1498 Scorpion Sauce and the Original Classic Gold. This year they are breaking into onsite food, with a pop-Up Baltimore Pit Beef venture exclusively at Brooklyn’s Smorgasburg event. If you are attending the NYC Hot Sauce Expo, this is right next door and Johnny is planning a Chilehead’s Dream Sandwich Special for that weekend. Head on over to their website by clicking on the picture above and use the code “hbdfan” for 20% off your order!

Round 5 Challenge

The final 4 contestants had 2 make a sandwich and a wrap this round. One had to be cold, whilst the other had to be hot with no preference to which one they chose. One also had to use 3 proteins inside. Lastly, they could not use olives or bleu cheese at all. We also asked them to tell us a little about why they chose what they chose. A little background never hurts in the recipe. It gets us a little closer to our spicy recipe makers.

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Feast Your Eyes on This Spicy Cooking Challenge 2013- Round 4 Contestant Videos

March 31, 2013March 31, 2013 Buddah April Fools Day, Easter, Feast Your Eyes on This, Round 4, Spicy Cooking Contest

This round is sponsored by TATS Sauces & Marinades

Our sponsor for this round is once again TATS Sauces & Marinades. They are running a special during the contest for you all faithful viewers. Buy any 2 products and TATS will give a FREE Bottle of their 6 Feet Under hot sauce by typing the word “Nancyboy” in the comments area at checkout. Thanks to Derek and Shauna Jellsey for their double sponsorship with us. Click on the banner above to get you some TATS!

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Feast Your Eyes on This Spicy Cooking Challenge 2013- Round 3 Contestant Videos

March 24, 2013March 30, 2013 Buddah

This round is sponsored by Texas Creek Products

Our Round 3 sponsor is Texas Creek Products, makers of Pure Evil Capsaicin Drops. Add heat to your food without changing the flavor. Check out their newest formula with 1,560,000 SHU. Try with baked goods, sauces, soups, drinks, jerky or anything you think needs some extra zip. Pure Evil is not an extract and has no nasty extract taste, just be careful because it has some serious extract heat. Click on the banner above to get you some. A big thanks to Ann Simmons for sponsoring the contest again and being our guest judge for the week.

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Feast Your Eyes on This Spicy Cooking Challenge 2013- Round 2 Contestant Videos

March 17, 2013March 17, 2013 Buddah 2013, Cajun Heat, Feast Your Eyes on This, Jay's Ghost Scorpion, Refining Fire Chiles, Round 2, Spicy Cooking Challenge

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.

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Feast Your Eyes on This Spicy Cooking Challenge 2013- Round 1 Contestant Videos

March 10, 2013March 16, 2013 Buddah 2013, Contestant Videos, Feast Your Eyes on This, Mountain View High School, pepper jelly, round 1, TATS

This Round is sponsored by TATS Sauces & Marinades

To purchase the best of what TATS Sauces & Marinades have to offer from last year’s Feast Your Eyes on This Spicy Cooking Challenge Champion, Shauna Jellsey, please click the TATS picture above to check out all their great all natural products, including their newly added line of dry rubs and seasonings. Now for the month of March, if you purchase any 4 items, you will receive a FREE bottle of their Black Dahlia Ghost Hickory Barbecue Sauce, winner of a 2011 Lenny Award for best spicy BBQ Sauce. Just mention the FYEOT Spicy Cooking Challenge in the comments box at checkout. Shauna is giving a $50 cash card to the winner of this week’s round as well as being our guest judge with her hubby Derek.
Thanks TATS for your endless support and sponsorship!

Round 1 Challenge:

Let me review what the 1st challenge is for those who missed my video announcement on Wednesday. All the contestants received a jar of pepper jelly from Chef Denise Baxter of Mountain View High School’s Wildcat Cafe & Bakery. We randomly sent them 1 of 4 kinds of pepper jelly, (Red Pepper Habanero, Jalapeno, Mango Habanero and the 2012 Lenny Award winning Pineapple Habanero). Their job is to simply create a spicy dish using their given pepper jelly.

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Nick Ney of Cajun Island shares some AWESOME Cajun recipes

November 15, 2012November 14, 2012 Buddah Cajun Island, Columbus, Nick Ney, OH, Open House

The day after the Weekend of Fire show some of us traveled up to Columbus, Ohio to visit Nick Ney’s Cajun Island restaurant and food court. He treated us to some amazing food, including my favorite from last year his Blackened Chicken and Bowtie Pasta. Along with serving he also allowed me to film the recipe for that dish and his Dirty Rice recipe. The best dirty rice I have ever had. A huge thank you to Nick for the wonderful food and hospitality. If there is another one of these in the future, you would be out of your mind to miss it if you could attend. I still am thinking about the amazing Gator Gumbo as well!

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Buddah’s Oven Cooked BBQ Ribs Recipe

August 19, 2012August 19, 2012 Buddah BBQ ribs. Butch T, BBQ rub, bbq sauce, Buddah, recipe, Trinidad Scorpion

Ladies and Gentlemen, I want to share with you my new love of cooking BBQ Ribs. Not on the grill, but in the oven. Is it as good as a grill? I think it is as close as you can get. My BBQ grill took a dive off my deck last year, and I have been since without a real grill. I do have a foo-foo grill, but I certainly couldn’t cook a rack of ribs with it. I show off all the BBQ rubs and BBQ sauces I have in my kitchen, and you will be surprised which BBQ sauce I ended up using. In the end, mouth-watering ribs that were saucy, juicy and mmm mmm good!

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