New Seasoning Discovery for me

[Belle]

Anyone use "Slap Ya MaMa" cajon seasoning? Just discovered it last night at our corner store and used it to make some outstanding steak fajitas...it was delish. Dry rub type.

Made in Ville Platte, LA. Wonderful spice

Anyone have any favorites?

[NYMAMA]

Anyone use "Slap Ya MaMa" cajon seasoning? Just discovered it last night at our corner store and used it to make some outstanding steak fajitas...it was delish. Dry rub type.

Made in Ville Platte, LA. Wonderful spice

Anyone have any favorites?
I add it to my meatloaf and it is delish!

[Belle]

So you know about it too? Very cool.

The fellow who owns the store does catering and crawfish boils here locally...he swears by it. He makes a to die for pulled pork "Carolina" style and uses this as a rub for the roasting of the pork.

I like the companies name "Walker and Sons"..Walker is my oldest sons name.

Cool Deb

[BigDag]

I always keep some Slap Yo Mama around. I use it in all kinds of things.

Try it on popcorn.

[funkkjunkie]

YYR. And folks love it as gifts just because of its name. :D

[Zydekitten]

http://www.slapyamama.com/images/Make-You-Wanna-Ad.jpg

http://www.slapyamama.com/index.php

[ohio]

SYMM is quality stuff. They have an entire line: hot sauce, spice mixes, seafood boil

[MaloGator]

I usually mix my own rubs, but with these reviews, I'll have to track some down and give it a try...it's finally grilling season (it never really ends, does it?)!

[Zydekitten]

Personally, I prefer Tony Chachere's for my seasoning needs - but SYM is a good choice too (and I loves the name)!

[Belle]

I usually mix my own rubs, but with these reviews, I'll have to track some down and give it a try...it's finally grilling season (it never really ends, does it?)!


You going to CFF? I can bring ya some

[ibjamn]

Personally, I prefer Tony Chachere's for my seasoning needs - but SYM is a good choice too (and I loves the name)!

I also love Tony's but love the SYM name. A few years ago I made my own seasoning mix and gave it away in cute little jars for Christmas with a tag saying return it for a free refill when empty. Gonna have to do that again. :)

[Belle]

I also love Tony's but love the SYM name. A few years ago I made my own seasoning mix and gave it away in cute little jars for Christmas with a tag saying return it for a free refill when empty. Gonna have to do that again. :)


Did you get some of the jars back? That is a great idea..

[ibjamn]

Did you get some of the jars back? That is a great idea..

I first did it as favors for a Christmas party we had when we lived in MA and I got a bunch of jars back on a regular basis. :) It was fun, the gift that keeps on giving. ;)

[mwgirlonherown]

Cool! I brought some SYM back as inexpensive lagniappes just based on its name. I'll have to share this with my friend (and local pub owner, Maria)

[Moon]

For those concerned about sodium in their hot sauce, the lowest content I've found so far is that Chinese shit with the chicken on it. I forget the name but it only has 90mg. Trappey's Bull clocks in at 115mg.

[festbabe]

I'm glad to hear this is good stuff. I bought a jar while festing and brought it home - for my mom's Mother's Day gift.

[Belle]

I can get 10 of the SYM 16 oz seasoning mix and bring it CFF...Let me know if you are interested...its pretty tasty and the price is right (free).

[swag]

I'm glad to hear this is good stuff. I bought a jar while festing and brought it home - for my mom's Mother's Day gift.

Heather, I haven't tried SYM, but next time you're in Kroger locally, look for Mike's Mojo. It's from a company here up in Lewisville, and it's my current favorite, better than my old standby Tony C's. Only available in Kroger, and I think only in the DFW area.

[Phatpapa]

Anyone use "Slap Ya MaMa" cajon seasoning? Just discovered it last night at our corner store and used it to make some outstanding steak fajitas...it was delish. Dry rub type.

Made in Ville Platte, LA. Wonderful spice

Anyone have any favorites?

The SYMM is great. I prefer the white pepper

[Hollyhawk]

This company makes salt/sugar free rubs in tons of varities www.nantucketoffshore.com

[jolie]

the lowest content I've found so far is that Chinese shit with the chicken on it.

This is? Love this! Use it ALOT in my cooking...

http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk309/tshomake/Sriracha_hot_chili_sauce.jpg

[Phatpapa]

This is? Love this! Use it ALOT in my cooking...

http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk309/tshomake/Sriracha_hot_chili_sauce.jpg

That's the stuff

mix it with mayo any you have srirachimayo. Great for fries

[MaloGator]

You going to CFF? I can bring ya some

That would be very sweet of you Lynda! :D

[MaloGator]

This is? Love this! Use it ALOT in my cooking...

http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk309/tshomake/Sriracha_hot_chili_sauce.jpg

This stuff is great...hot and garlicky with some tang. And who doesn't like a little tang...

[festivalgirl]

Front page of the NY Times Food Section today ......

[posted this last night .... on the wrong thread :o]

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/05/20/dining/20united600.1.jpg

May 20, 2009
A Chili Sauce to Crow About
By JOHN T. EDGE

ROSEMEAD, Calif.

AFTER-HOURS calls to Huy Fong Foods, here in the suburbs of the San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles, are intercepted by an answering machine. One recent day, 14 messages were blinking when Donna Lam, the operations manager, hit “play.”

A woman told of smearing Huy Fong’s flagship product, Tuong Ot Sriracha (Sriracha Chili Sauce), on multigrain snack chips. A man proclaimed the purée of fresh red jalapeños, garlic powder, sugar, salt and vinegar to be “the bomb,” and thanked Ms. Lam’s employers for “much joy and pleasure.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/dining/20united.html?hp

[Belle]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/49/Flying_goose_sriracha.jpg

So many flavors

My sister in law is Vietnamese and makes a pho soup that is to die for and we use it but the yellow top is much hotter with a ginger under flavor if your taste buds go beyond the heat!

[BigDag]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/49/Flying_goose_sriracha.jpg

So many flavors

My sister in law is Vietnamese and makes a pho soup that is to die for and we use it but the yellow top is much hotter with a ginger under flavor if your taste buds go beyond the heat!

I've never heard of this stuff, but I'm definitely going to look for it this weekend.

[Hollyhawk]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/49/Flying_goose_sriracha.jpg

So many flavors

My sister in law is Vietnamese and makes a pho soup that is to die for and we use it but the yellow top is much hotter with a ginger under flavor if your taste buds go beyond the heat!

What flavor is 'galanga'? I'm going for that lemon grass...luv that flavor!

[Belle]

What flavor is 'galanga'? I'm going for that lemon grass...luv that flavor!

I dont have many words down in Thai or Vietnamese but galanga is ginger too. Gotta a Thai and Vietnamese sister in law..Lucky me..I love the food.

[Delta]

According to my Vietnamese brother galanga is remotely related to ginger, but the taste is much more citrus.

[festbabe]

According to my Vietnamese brother galanga is remotely related to ginger, but the taste is much more citrus.

That sounds yummy

[festivalgirl]

Galangal
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Galangal root ready to be prepared for cooking

The Galangal plant (Galanga, Blue Ginger) is a assamse adaa with culinary and medicinal uses (Thai: ข่า ("Kha") , Malay: lengkuas (Alpinia galangal), Traditional Mandarin: 南薑, Simplified Mandarin: 南姜, T:高良薑/S:高良姜, Cantonese: lam keong, 藍薑, Vietnamese: Riềng). It is used in various oriental cuisines (for example in Thai cuisine Tom Yum soups and Dtom Kha Gai, Vietnamese Huenian cuisine (Tre) and throughout Indonesian cuisine, for example, in Soto (food)). Though it resembles the ginger that it is related to, there is little similarity in taste.

In its raw form, galangal has a citrus, earthy aroma, with hints of pine and soap in the flavor. It is available as a whole root, or cut or powdered. The whole fresh root is very hard, and slicing it requires a sharp knife. A mixture of galangal and lime juice is used as a tonic in parts of Southeast Asia. It is said to have the effect of an aphrodisiac, and act as a stimulant. In the Indonesian language, greater galangal is called lengkuas or laos and lesser galangal is called kencur. It is also known as galanggal, and somewhat confusingly galingale, which is also the name for several plants of the unrelated Cyperus genus of sedges (also with aromatic rhizomes). In Thai language, greater galangal is called "ข่า" (Kha) or "ข่าใหญ่" (Kha yai), while lesser galangal is called "ข่าตาแดง" (Kha ta daeng).

The word galangal, or its variant galanga is used as a common name for all members of the genus Alpinia, and in common usage can refer to four plants, all in the Zingiberaceae (ginger family):

* Alpinia galanga or greater galangal
* Alpinia officinarum or lesser galangal
* Kaempferia galanga, also called lesser galangal or sand ginger
* Boesenbergia pandurata, also called Chinese ginger or fingerroot

Alpinia galanga is also known as Chewing John, Little John Chew and galanga root. It is used in African-American folk medicine and hoodoo folk magic. [1]

[festivalgirl]

My sister in law is Vietnamese and makes a pho soup that is to die for and we use it but the yellow top is much hotter with a ginger under flavor if your taste buds go beyond the heat!


Ox Tail Pho is my favorite!! We just add sliced serrano's or jalepeno's, sliced onions, thai basil & cilantro. I like adding spice with the chili's 'cause the broth is so good as is. Yummy!!

[Belle]

Ox Tail Pho is my favorite!! We just add sliced serrano's or jalepeno's, sliced onions, thai basil & cilantro. I like adding spice with the chili's 'cause the broth is so good as is. Yummy!!

A Pho fan!! I love it but like spicing it up too!

[festivalgirl]

A Pho fan!! I love it but like spicing it up too!

Oh the chili's spice it up quite a bit! We live in a neighborhood called Koreatown. There are a lot of Asian food choices!

[Belle]

Oh the chili's spice it up quite a bit! We live in a neighborhood called Koreatown. There are a lot of Asian food choices!

Lucky you..I used to live outside DC not far from Asian grocers and restaurants...yummie

Where are you near?

[festivalgirl]

Lucky you..I used to live outside DC not far from Asian grocers and restaurants...yummie

Where are you near?

We're also called Mid Wilshire. The Wiltern Theater @ Wilshire & Western is about 4 blocks from us.

[MzJoey]

Oh the chili's spice it up quite a bit! We live in a neighborhood called Koreatown. There are a lot of Asian food choices!

And say hi to mr boy for me.....what is that neighborhood with lots of GOOD Asian restaurants also, nearer to USC? (USC...where I really wanted to go to school...not here at UCSD...go figure! Hey I was hoping to meet a future dentist!)

[Belle]

We're also called Mid Wilshire. The Wiltern Theater @ Wilshire & Western is about 4 blocks from us.


You are indeed a City gal...i stop at the dried fish heads. Now if someone makes me something that has it in it..thats ok:D

[festivalgirl]

And say hi to mr boy for me.....what is that neighborhood with lots of GOOD Asian restaurants also, nearer to USC? (USC...where I really wanted to go to school...not here at UCSD...go figure! Hey I was hoping to meet a future dentist!)

Huntington Park?

[festivalgirl]

You are indeed a City gal...i stop at the dried fish heads. Now if someone makes me something that has it in it..thats ok:D

I do like the little fish they use in Kimchi.

[Belle]

I do like the little fish they use in Kimchi.

My bestfriends kid loves Kimchi and now I do too. Have ya ever made it? I dont think she uses fish..maybe she does..I will ask. Her sister in law is Korean and uses her recipe.

[festivalgirl]

My bestfriends kid loves Kimchi and now I do too. Have ya ever made it? I dont think she uses fish..maybe she does..I will ask. Her sister in law is Korean and uses her recipe.

A friend of mine used to make all sorts of Kimchis (potato & green beans are really good). Seaweed is also one of my faves.

[ScoopJohnD]

I believe Mama will kick Daddy's ass.

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/65710977.html?showAll=y&c=y