Best Salsa Macha RecipeSALSA MACHA RECIPE Salsa Macha is a delicious salsa/sauce originating from the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. It's an amazing sauce and won't last long! Ingredients 2 large mulato chile peppers* 2 large guajillo chile peppers* 5-6 chile de arbol peppers* 1/4 cup peanuts 4-6+ garlic cloves chopped 1 tablespoon sesame seeds 2 cups olive oil 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar Salt to taste I use 1/2 teaspoon 1/2 teaspoon oregano 1 tablespoon brown sugar Instructio...
Canned Hot Pepper Salsa RecipeCanned Hot Pepper Salsa Recipe • 6 Cups Tomatoes; cored, chopped and peeled • 2 Cups Chopped Onion • 6 Cups Jalapeño & Hot Peppers*; chopped • Cider vinegar (2 tablespoons per pint, 4 tablespoons per quart jar) • 3 Teaspoons Salt • 3 teaspoons Oregano • 1 Teaspoon Ground cumin • 12+ Garlic cloves – minced • 4+ tablespoons fresh Cilantro, minced • Optional: You can also add peeled & cored Apples to this recipe to give it a bit of sweetness. (See bottom of this post)You...
Carolina Reaper Salsa RecipeSandia Seed's Carolina Reaper Salsa Recipe This is the hottest salsa you can make with the world's hottest pepper, the wicked Carolina Reaper! Of course, if you like to taste your salsa, you can also add less of the reaper to this recipe. We like to add some, then add more after tasting until we get it just right. Remember, it can also get hotter overnight! We like to make a big batch of this salsa and refrigerate it for snacking on anytime with chips or on tacos, but don't worr...
Salad Garden KitHere's the best Salad Garden Kit! This Organic Seed Starter Kit comes bundled with 20 of the easiest-to-grow vegetable seeds so you can have a huge garden to eat from all year-round! We have picked the fastest and easiest-to-grow vegetable seeds so that you can grow plenty for daily salads and beyond! Grow our Little Gem Lettuce Seeds for a very crispy and tasty cross between butterhead and romaine lettuce. Chef's love it! Also in our Salad Garden Kit are our Nasturtiums which are...
Gardening Gift BasketsLooking for unusual gardening gifts for your Mom, Dad or other family and gardener friends? This organic food garden seed collection is the perfect unusual gift that is sure to please any gardener in your life! It's not exactly a gardening gift basket, but it's even better! It comes with a garden tote that is perfect for collecting veggies in the garden or sharing the harvest, or shopping! The Organic Food Garden Seed Collection is designed as the perfect gift for gardeners! A one...
Green Tomato RecipesLooking for the best Green Tomato Recipes? Here are some of our favorites below, we like spicy, if you can tell. It seems that every year we have more green tomatoes than red at the end of the season. The frost looms and we frantically pick all the unripe green heirloom tomatoes hoping they'll quickly ripen to red. And, some do, but many of the less ripe ones stay green for a long time and never quite ripe. And, if they do change color, they don't taste anywhere near as good as one th...
Long Hot PeppersLooking for long hot peppers? We have an assortment of spicy long peppers that are a great addition to your pepper and vegetable garden!One of our favorite long hot peppers is the Goat Horn Hot Pepper. It is quite prolific, and has great red color when fully mature. Here are some photos of a loaded down plant. It can be quite pretty in pots too, larger 5+ gallon pots are best. For other long hot peppers, you can also try growing Cayenne Pepper seeds; or Chile de Arbol seeds, with their b...
When to Pick PeppersWhen are chile peppers ready to harvest?If you're not sure when to pick peppers, here is our advice: Harvest time depends on the chile pepper. Hatch chiles usually take about 85 days before ready for harvest, so be patient as they ripen. Immature Hatch chiles will taste "green" and will be less flavorful and not as thick compared to a chile that has been allowed to ripen longer on the plant. some Hatch chiles are picked green like the Hatch Green Hot Doublecross Chile, and some, ...
No Salt Hot Sauce RecipeSo if you're like us, you like to put Hot Sauce on EVERYTHING. If you're worried about your salt intake, and you like vinegar, this No-Salt Hot Pepper Vinegar Sauce is great on food and doesn't add any salt to your diet! It's a great way to spice things up with great flavor without sodium. Sandia Seed's No-Salt Hot Sauce Recipe: 1 glass bottle with cap or cork 1 cup of hot peppers (roughly, use any type of hot pepper, such as Goat Horns, or Cayenne Peppers . You ...
Vinegar Pepper Sauce RecipeVinegar Pepper Sauce Recipe: 1 glass bottle with cap or cork 1 cup of peppers - dried or fresh(roughly, use any type of hot pepper, such as cayennes or goat horns) Vinegar such as White Wine Vinegar (enough to fill jar, you can fill jar, and pour into pot to measure, any vinegar you want to use will work!) 1 tablespoon black peppercorns (optional) 4-6 cloves garlic, chopped (optional) In a non-reactive pot (such as stainless steel, ceramic, glass or metal cookware with enamel...
How to Germinate Pepper SeedsWhat You will need: Pepper seeds Indoor/Outdoor potting soil Plastic growing tray, at least 2” deep with holes for drainage Seed germination warming mat Grow light or bright window Distilled water Labels. Fill growing tray almost to the top with potting soil. Moisten thoroughly with water and allow to drain completely. Always use distilled water. Make an indentation with a pencil eraser approx. a quarter of an inch deep or less, about every 2 inches in the soil. Place one pepper seed int...
Easiest Peppers to GrowIf you haven't planned a garden yet, now is a great time. We have picked out some of the fastest growing peppers which are also of course the easiest to grow so that you can get your garden growing quickly! Here Is Our Favorites List Of TheEasiest Peppers To Grow: Early Jalapeño Seeds Early Jalapeño - The best pepper for short seasons and cooler climates! These are one of the earliest peppers, and everybody loves jalapeños because they can be prepared in so many different ways. Jalapeñ...
Egg Salad with Green Chile RecipeHAPPY EASTER! If you're like us, you eat green chile everyday. Here's a great way to use up your dyed Easter eggs in these two delicious green chile recipes: EGG SALAD WITH GREEN CHILE RECIPE: 1/2 cup Diced green chiles 4-6 large hard-cooked eggs, mashed1⁄4 cup mayonnaise2 tablespoons green onions, sliced1⁄4 teaspoon hot pepper sauce1/3 cup of Diced Celery (optional for crunch!) Mix together and spread on bread or bagels for a spicy twist on an egg salad sandwich! ALTERNATIVE N...
Grow Your Own Hot SauceIt's so rewarding to cook something from ingredients growing right in your garden. Making hot sauce and salsa has always been the perfect thing to do with fresh peppers when they arrive in abundance in your garden. Even if you only have a few peppers, you can make hot sauce! These mixtures always taste good and can be made a little differently each time. Hot sauce is a smooth purée or strained sauce that is cooked or fermented. Salsa is a chopped or diced mixture that is served fresh. ...
Growing Hot Peppers in PotsGrowing Hot Peppers in Pots is easy! Here are some of our top tips:Some varieties do better than others, so pick wisely, and make sure to plant them in a well-draining larger pot that is at least 2-5 gallons. You want to make sure you have well-draining soil with plenty of drainage holes so that the roots don't stay soggy. OUR TOP TIPS:Growing Super Hot Peppers like the Carolina Reaper in Containers: Hot peppers like Carolina Reapers can be grown in containers, but make sure to pick a ...
Pepper SeedsPepper Seeds from Around the World Sandia Seed specializes in pepper seeds – we carry chile peppers from around the world! New Mexican Chile Seeds:We are huge fans of New Mexican chile, so we carry a wide variety of Hatch green chile seeds and red chile seeds that have been grown in the Hatch region of New Mexico. Once you've tasted Hatch green chile, it's hard not to want to have it wherever you live – and finding this special chile fresh is difficult outside of New Mexico – mos...
Best Salsa Macha Recipe
SALSA MACHA RECIPE Salsa Macha is a delicious salsa/sauce originating from the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. It's an amazing sauce and won't last long! Ingredients 2 large mulato chile peppers* 2 large guajillo chile peppers* 5-6 chile de arbol peppers* 1/4 cup peanuts 4-6+ garlic cloves chopped 1 tablespoon sesame seeds 2 cups olive oil 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar Salt to taste I use 1/2 teaspoon 1/2 teaspoon oregano 1 tablespoon brown sugar Instructio...
Canned Hot Pepper Salsa Recipe
Canned Hot Pepper Salsa Recipe • 6 Cups Tomatoes; cored, chopped and peeled • 2 Cups Chopped Onion • 6 Cups Jalapeño & Hot Peppers*; chopped • Cider vinegar (2 tablespoons per pint, 4 tablespoons per quart jar) • 3 Teaspoons Salt • 3 teaspoons Oregano • 1 Teaspoon Ground cumin • 12+ Garlic cloves – minced • 4+ tablespoons fresh Cilantro, minced • Optional: You can also add peeled & cored Apples to this recipe to give it a bit of sweetness. (See bottom of this post)You...
Carolina Reaper Salsa Recipe
Sandia Seed's Carolina Reaper Salsa Recipe This is the hottest salsa you can make with the world's hottest pepper, the wicked Carolina Reaper! Of course, if you like to taste your salsa, you can also add less of the reaper to this recipe. We like to add some, then add more after tasting until we get it just right. Remember, it can also get hotter overnight! We like to make a big batch of this salsa and refrigerate it for snacking on anytime with chips or on tacos, but don't worr...
Salad Garden Kit
Here's the best Salad Garden Kit! This Organic Seed Starter Kit comes bundled with 20 of the easiest-to-grow vegetable seeds so you can have a huge garden to eat from all year-round! We have picked the fastest and easiest-to-grow vegetable seeds so that you can grow plenty for daily salads and beyond! Grow our Little Gem Lettuce Seeds for a very crispy and tasty cross between butterhead and romaine lettuce. Chef's love it! Also in our Salad Garden Kit are our Nasturtiums which are...
Gardening Gift Baskets
Looking for unusual gardening gifts for your Mom, Dad or other family and gardener friends? This organic food garden seed collection is the perfect unusual gift that is sure to please any gardener in your life! It's not exactly a gardening gift basket, but it's even better! It comes with a garden tote that is perfect for collecting veggies in the garden or sharing the harvest, or shopping! The Organic Food Garden Seed Collection is designed as the perfect gift for gardeners! A one...
Green Tomato Recipes
Looking for the best Green Tomato Recipes? Here are some of our favorites below, we like spicy, if you can tell. It seems that every year we have more green tomatoes than red at the end of the season. The frost looms and we frantically pick all the unripe green heirloom tomatoes hoping they'll quickly ripen to red. And, some do, but many of the less ripe ones stay green for a long time and never quite ripe. And, if they do change color, they don't taste anywhere near as good as one th...
Long Hot Peppers
Looking for long hot peppers? We have an assortment of spicy long peppers that are a great addition to your pepper and vegetable garden!One of our favorite long hot peppers is the Goat Horn Hot Pepper. It is quite prolific, and has great red color when fully mature. Here are some photos of a loaded down plant. It can be quite pretty in pots too, larger 5+ gallon pots are best. For other long hot peppers, you can also try growing Cayenne Pepper seeds; or Chile de Arbol seeds, with their b...
When to Pick Peppers
When are chile peppers ready to harvest?If you're not sure when to pick peppers, here is our advice: Harvest time depends on the chile pepper. Hatch chiles usually take about 85 days before ready for harvest, so be patient as they ripen. Immature Hatch chiles will taste "green" and will be less flavorful and not as thick compared to a chile that has been allowed to ripen longer on the plant. some Hatch chiles are picked green like the Hatch Green Hot Doublecross Chile, and some, ...
No Salt Hot Sauce Recipe
So if you're like us, you like to put Hot Sauce on EVERYTHING. If you're worried about your salt intake, and you like vinegar, this No-Salt Hot Pepper Vinegar Sauce is great on food and doesn't add any salt to your diet! It's a great way to spice things up with great flavor without sodium. Sandia Seed's No-Salt Hot Sauce Recipe: 1 glass bottle with cap or cork 1 cup of hot peppers (roughly, use any type of hot pepper, such as Goat Horns, or Cayenne Peppers . You ...
Vinegar Pepper Sauce Recipe
Vinegar Pepper Sauce Recipe: 1 glass bottle with cap or cork 1 cup of peppers - dried or fresh(roughly, use any type of hot pepper, such as cayennes or goat horns) Vinegar such as White Wine Vinegar (enough to fill jar, you can fill jar, and pour into pot to measure, any vinegar you want to use will work!) 1 tablespoon black peppercorns (optional) 4-6 cloves garlic, chopped (optional) In a non-reactive pot (such as stainless steel, ceramic, glass or metal cookware with enamel...
How to Germinate Pepper Seeds
What You will need: Pepper seeds Indoor/Outdoor potting soil Plastic growing tray, at least 2” deep with holes for drainage Seed germination warming mat Grow light or bright window Distilled water Labels. Fill growing tray almost to the top with potting soil. Moisten thoroughly with water and allow to drain completely. Always use distilled water. Make an indentation with a pencil eraser approx. a quarter of an inch deep or less, about every 2 inches in the soil. Place one pepper seed int...
Easiest Peppers to Grow
If you haven't planned a garden yet, now is a great time. We have picked out some of the fastest growing peppers which are also of course the easiest to grow so that you can get your garden growing quickly! Here Is Our Favorites List Of TheEasiest Peppers To Grow: Early Jalapeño Seeds Early Jalapeño - The best pepper for short seasons and cooler climates! These are one of the earliest peppers, and everybody loves jalapeños because they can be prepared in so many different ways. Jalapeñ...
Egg Salad with Green Chile Recipe
HAPPY EASTER! If you're like us, you eat green chile everyday. Here's a great way to use up your dyed Easter eggs in these two delicious green chile recipes: EGG SALAD WITH GREEN CHILE RECIPE: 1/2 cup Diced green chiles 4-6 large hard-cooked eggs, mashed1⁄4 cup mayonnaise2 tablespoons green onions, sliced1⁄4 teaspoon hot pepper sauce1/3 cup of Diced Celery (optional for crunch!) Mix together and spread on bread or bagels for a spicy twist on an egg salad sandwich! ALTERNATIVE N...
Grow Your Own Hot Sauce
It's so rewarding to cook something from ingredients growing right in your garden. Making hot sauce and salsa has always been the perfect thing to do with fresh peppers when they arrive in abundance in your garden. Even if you only have a few peppers, you can make hot sauce! These mixtures always taste good and can be made a little differently each time. Hot sauce is a smooth purée or strained sauce that is cooked or fermented. Salsa is a chopped or diced mixture that is served fresh. ...
Growing Hot Peppers in Pots
Growing Hot Peppers in Pots is easy! Here are some of our top tips:Some varieties do better than others, so pick wisely, and make sure to plant them in a well-draining larger pot that is at least 2-5 gallons. You want to make sure you have well-draining soil with plenty of drainage holes so that the roots don't stay soggy. OUR TOP TIPS:Growing Super Hot Peppers like the Carolina Reaper in Containers: Hot peppers like Carolina Reapers can be grown in containers, but make sure to pick a ...
Pepper Seeds
Pepper Seeds from Around the World Sandia Seed specializes in pepper seeds – we carry chile peppers from around the world! New Mexican Chile Seeds:We are huge fans of New Mexican chile, so we carry a wide variety of Hatch green chile seeds and red chile seeds that have been grown in the Hatch region of New Mexico. Once you've tasted Hatch green chile, it's hard not to want to have it wherever you live – and finding this special chile fresh is difficult outside of New Mexico – mos...
