Dear Friends/Family and Chileheads One & All

It is time to start thinking of the various Holidays and Celebrations upcoming this time of year.
Wouldn’t YOU love it if someone gave you a unique gift with spicy flavors and exciting aromas?

Check your memory banks or make out your lists and then go to www.darnhotpeppers.com
You’ll find plenty of gift ideas; a “gift card” is available also just for the asking.
If ordering to be sent directly to the address of the gift-receiver, we can sign your name and/or a 20 words or less message on the card and send it along with the package. ( just let us know you want this in a separate email to Info@darnhotpeppers.com)
If ordering several items to be sent to you for your own wrapping, just ask for a ” gift tag” for each one. They are FREE.

Please do remember to ORDER EARLY… between NOW AND DECEMBER 15TH.
Orders received after the 15th will ,of course, be filled in the order received, but cannot necessarily
be expected to arrive before the end of the year.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL. Buen Provecho. Enjoy!

WOO HOO! – Pepperfest 2009!

Darn Hot Pepperfest 2009 is almost here!

This years DARN HOT PEPPER FESTIVAL is not to be missed!
We’ll have Food, Music, Salsa tastings & more.
The festival kicks off on Saturday September 5th at 11 AM Cobden time.

Can’t wait to See yall there! We’ll have lots of great Food for all our Friends, plus Music Arts and Crafts.

Mark your Calendar

September 5, 2009
11 -5 p.m.
825 Vines Road -Cobden, Illinois

Also:
- Save 10% at our Darn Hot Pepper Store (9/5/2009 only)
- Southwest style cooking and great local music all day
- Darn Hot Pepper salsa and jelly tasting
- Arts and Crafts & Book Booths
- “Fields of Fire” walking tour
- NEW –Salsa sampling from some of Southern Illinois best restaurants

SPONSORS
La Fiesta Restaurant in Marion
Darn Hot Peppers, LLC.
Sergio’s Restaurantsin Herrin , Murphysboro, and Carbondale

* $3.00 entry fee wristband allows for all tastings, music & fun. ( Children 12/under FREE.)

Time to get the plants in the ground

5 de Mayo came and went……….and we still don’t have peppers in the ground!

Mother Nature is so unpredictable, she just does whatever she want’s w/ out consulting us. So, that being said, this year’s green house (rebuilt after the ice storm)…again, has a slightly different configuration. That makes it bigger and allows space for all the working stages of seeding and sedling transplant into plug trays.

Here’s some views of current greenhouse and plants.
Most varieties are doing well even the new Pimento. And there’s one of me next to the new Compost Tumbler — bigger than life size,huh?
I’am hoping for great things once we get more loads of compost made. Although the flowers are doing great this year from all the rain. Strawberries can always use the compost though.

- Hoping for sunshine soon.

Carol

Eat chile’s to lose weight?

Who knew?

One of our friends from the UK, pointed out that eating chile’s is a great way to lose weight. I knew that having a higher metabolism means you burn more calories, and if your burn more calories than yo eat you will lose weight. But how do chile’s fit into the equation?

Apparently studies have shown that eating chiles can potentially raise you metabolism by as much as 20%.

Check out the chilliking.com to learn more.

Thanks for the info James.