Author Archives: Saucy

Saucy Contessa is a wicked fun store in lovely downtown Boothbay Harbor, Maine selling hundreds of hot sauces, BBQ sauce, spice rubs and all kinds of other goodies. Per customer request, we have expanded onto the web, and hope you all will enjoy becoming a member of our online community, and maybe even visit us in person sometime!

Infrared Gas Grill

We haven’t seen one yet, but found this review and wanted to pass this on for those that "need" a new grill!  Saucy might just be able to justify this one…..although it does seem that it’s not built as well as it should be for the price ($700 @ Home Depot!!!!)

Char-Broil RED 3-Zone Infrared Grill […]

Blues & Smoke…..What More Can You Want?

Holy Smoke: Blues Fest group to host BBQ fundraiser
 
 
Heavenly scents and divine tastes will invade Cañon City this June during the inaugural Royal Gorge Holy Smoke Barbeque Showdown on the former Abbey football field.

“This is going to be a great thing for the community,” said Jay Bouton, one of the event organizers. “It’s going to […]

Use Curry and Help Your Heart!

(WebMD) 
Curcumin, an ingredient in the curry spice turmeric, may help prevent heart failure.
That’s according to two new studies done on rats, not people.
In both studies, researchers gave curcumin to rats. The rats then got surgery or drugs designed to put them at risk of heart failure.
The rats that got curcumin showed more […]

Headache Relief from Capsaicin…

A recent study found that 75 percent of headache patients felt relief when they rubbed capsaicin (the component that makes chile peppers hot) on their nose.

How To Trim Some Fat Off!

from our friends at eatbetteramerica.com…..  some great tips on how to cut some of the fat out of traditional BBQ!

 
With a few fun additions and some subtle changes to how you cook, your backyard can become an open-air entertainment and fitness center.
On the Grill Unbeef the Burgers. Reduce the meat in burgers and spare […]

New Use For Chile Peppers

Costs squeeze New Mexico’s peppers
Chile breeders at New Mexico State University have developed a gem of a new chile variety that produces the reddest pigment commercially available. “NuMex Garnet,” a paprika chile for natural food coloring, was unveiled today at the 20th Annual 2002 Chile Conference in Las Cruces.
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Happy and Peppery 2008!

Saucy wishes all a very Happy New Year filled with lots of peppery adventures!

Welcome to our new Online Community!

We would like to welcome you all to our new online community! Within the next few days, we’ll start posting blogs, and we encourage you all to join and be a reviewer! We also have debuted our new forum, which is still under development. It is fully functioning, just not looking so […]