Cooking with HEAT!

Yes, we love to cook with HEAT!

All kinds of heat... Ghost Peppers, Habanero's, Scorpions, Fresno's, Serrano's, Thai Chiles, Jalapeno's (even though we treat those like breath mints now) and most recently, the new Carolina Reaper Peppers, which come on at 1,500,000 units on the Scoville scale, (50% hotter than the Ghost Peppers), we love cooking with these!

There is just something about food with heat! It opens up the senses, it makes you feel alive!

Now, we will not out out food that is just hot, it has to have flavor.. or why even do it!

For the past year, we have been doing our 'Pop-up/Flash' restaurants (En Fuego) around the Grand Valley of Western Colorado, at Peach Street Distillers in Palisade and at The VFW Post in Grand Junction, trying to put out some of the tastiest and hottest food possible! We are doing these for a few reasons, first and foremost.. We love to cook with HEAT! and secondly, we have been developing the menu for the restaurant that we want to open in 2015.

We have incorporated Heat in everything that we put out, ranging from 'Flamin Burgers' (Ground Angus, Ground Bacon, Ghost Pepper Sauce, fried in Ghost Pepper oil and more), Atomic Wings (made with Carolina Reaper Peppers, we actually made people wear gloves and sign releases!), Ghost Pepper fries served with a Trinidad Scorpion Sauce, we even made Habanero Mango Popsicles, among many, many other offerings.

Yeah, we have developed a nice following!

The next Pop-Up is at VFW Post 1247 at 14th & Ute in Grand Junction on November 11th, from 5 - 7 pm. (Become a fan of ours on Facebook, where we announce such things!).

We will continue to cook with HEAT, continue to push the pallettes to extremes and have some fun!

Want some recipes with HEAT? drop us an email!

Richmond eats...

I do love finding new places to eat when I am on the road and as I spend a lot of time in Richmond, VA with our expansion of Decadence Gourmet Cheesecakes and with such, drive all around the RVA.

Yesterday, I was headed down to a restaurant supply store and made a wrong turn and I saw a place that I had seen before but never stopped. I knew I had a little time and saw that the place was packed, so what the hey...

En Su Boca may not look like much from the outside, but definitely do not let that fool you!

I walked in and asked for a menu and knew almost immediately that I might like this place; a definate South of the Border feel and when I saw that their style was 'San Francisco Mission District', I had high hopes, having lived in SF and Northern California for over 20 years.

Everything on the menu had that SF-Mission Style aire about it and yes friends, they have Tacos and we all know how I love me my tacos!

I settled on the Slow Roasted Carintas Taco ($3.00, 4 for $11), which is a Citrus Pork Shoulder with arbol salsa, taqueria onions and cilantro. Almost went with the Carne Asada or the House-made Chorizo, maybe the Marinated Grilled Chicken, but I love a good carnitas. Came with an appropriate lime wedge and yeah, tasty!!

Full Bar too with many, many tequilas, but it was way too early for that.

You can download the menu from their website so if you are around Boulevard and Broad Street in Richmond... definitely stop by!

Peter Chang Update 

I had been to Peter Changs in RIchmond a few times and while I loved the food, I was always wondering where the 'heat' was.

Found it!   Try the Chicken with Ghost Chiles!!