Four Pepper Jelly

Spicy Four Pepper Jelly Sauce is a versatile condiment! You can use it with cream cheese as a dip, a coating for your crispy chicken wings, or smeared on your morning bagel for a hint of spice!

Sweet and Spicy Pepper Jelly

What did the pepper do? They said it couldn’t be done but I officially burned something in my crock pot.

I know many of you will say that you have never heard of burning something in a crock pot, as it’s very purpose for existing, is that it is DESIGNED to cook for long periods of time and not burn!

Well, it is me, and if something like this is going to happen, it’s going to happen to me. It’s the Stewart Law.  Needless to say, this was supposed to be a crockpot recipe and now it is not.

What was it that I burned? Here it is…

Four pepper jelly!

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Hot Pepper Jelly

Brooks and I are HUGE Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives fans. I mean AVID watchers of the show.

New episodes, old episodes, half-way over episodes, plan your whole vacation around DDD locations from the App kind of fans. I think we have seen almost all of them.

I even watched the show where they ran lost footage. I’m lame. I can’t help it!

I love seeing all these great places where ordinary people make food so tasty that they have a loyal following.

Feeding people something that makes them want to come back and eat your food, 4 or 5 times a week, makes my heart sing! I often find inspiration watching the foods these awesome folks are making that keeps customers coming back time and time again.

One of these episodes showed a chef making a chicken wing recipe that supposedly kept people lined out the door. I watched him make it (of course they don’t tell you exact measurements) again and again till I had to try it for myself.  

I took notes like I usually do and it drives Brooks crazy, to see if I could make it at home. This is that recipe.

Like I said, it’s not EXACTLY how they make, just my interpretation of the notes I took. Turned out pretty good! If I ever get to travel to that restaurant, I will try them and let you know how close I came:)

I didn’t see where the restaurant is located because we started watching in the middle of the episode and I haven’t had the time to go back and research it online. I am just hoping that it will come back on while I’m watching the re-runs.

How to Make Hot Pepper Jelly

The initial cook time for the recipe on the show was 4 hours. I figured I could combine the ingredients, pour them in the crock pot, let them go on high for a few hours, and it would turn out just like on the show.

Well, after 3 hours, I saw no reduction in the volume of the jelly, so I cranked up the crock pot to high and cracked the lid so the steam could escape, fell asleep, and woke to the smell of burning sugar.

Oops! 8 hours on high… too long. Back to the drawing board.

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I decided to make it as they did on the show since I had to wait for my crockpot to start talking to me again, and hopefully, it would be quicker and turn out like originally planned. I’m not one for long cook times…

Second time worked like a charm. Taste it for yourself! By the way, I had to ditch the crock pot. It could not be saved. Funeral at 5 pm.

Leave me a comment and let me know what you would use this 4 pepper jelly with!  I am already thinking it would be great on my next cheese board!

Easy Party Foods

• Crispy Chicken Wings
• Mini Pepper Jelly Cheese Balls
• Grape Jelly Meatballs
• Grown Up Peanut Butter and Jelly

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