Ingredients: Tomato Puree, Organic crushed tomato, red onion, tomato paste, extra virgin olive oil, basil, minced garlic, orange habanero chiles (fresh whole pods**), extra coarse sea salt, turbinado sugar, coarse black pepper, spices.

**Not every jar will contain a habanero pod. This is due to the canning process.

Finding a truly spicy tomato sauce right from the jar is a tough thing to do. Sure it is easy to add some heat with spices and sauce, but to have a sauce that comes straight to the table with enough heat to actually satisfy the spicy craving is a rarity.

With most pasta sauces out of the jar I am quite skeptical. They are always lacking in something whether it be simply from salt and pepper or to a more specific spice. This is one time though that I have not been disappointed. Straight out of this hefty bottle to a sauce pan this tomato sauce was better than almost any I have tried. I am not going to try and find any fault in this pasta sauce as there is none. From the first initial waft of aroma to the final mixing stage to the pasta, everything was stellar.

I tossed most of the bottle into a sauce pan and set it over low\medium heat while water was boiling right until the pasta was boiled through. I took several taste tests to see if anything additional should be added. Okay, if I was to add a negative comment it would be that my bottle did not contain a habanero pod. No matter though. Throughout the heating up process the sauce remained uniformly thick and released a burst of aroma with every oxygenated bubble that burst under the heat of the element.

Mixing the sauce into the pasta was another revelation among bottles sauces. It took just a mere few seconds to have all this wonderful sauce blended in to the pasta.

As for the heat. Well yes, there is definitely a kick up from the rest of commercial sauces I have tried out there, Not so much to scare anyone off. But enough for this pasta sauce to live up to its name. The heat definitely came from the hab’s but there wasn’t so much as a taste from the habanero’s. I could have kicked this up a few notches myself, but for anyone that is just looking for a spicy pasta sauce off the shelf you can’t get anything better.

There is a little bit left in the jar. Just enough to coat some bread and make one killer meatball sub. I can also see this being used a pizza sauce as well. Your limits do not have to be left to just pasta.

To wrap it up, you have a pasta sauce that is thick and rich, that delivers up to its name in being “spicy” and ultimately an extremely flavourful sauce that you can simply heat and serve with worrying about adjusting any levels to it.

An exceptional product!

Csigi Chili Sauce Gourmet Foods distributed by:
THC Netwurx LLC
508 Main Street
Suite 242
Stroudsburg, PA 18360

www.csigichilisauce.com
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570-420-8664

The HSB is participating in a Food review roundup, courtesy of Abi Jones from HeatEatReview.com - Here is this week’s edition - look for the HSB to be hosting the roundup sometime in Feb.

Welcome to the first edition of Food Review Weekly. What is Food Review Weekly, you ask? It is a biweekly round-up of the best reviews from across the online food review universe. Okay, not universe. More like the online food people in the United States and Canada. The reviews are fresh even if the food isn’t.

Eats

The Healthy Snacks Blog gives you a hand with your resolutions: check out their review of Glenny’s Low Fat Soy Crisps. Now you know which snacks taste like styrofoam and which are delicious.

On the opposite end of the resolution spectrum, Jeremy over at Consumer’s Corner has his own ideas about Freschetta’s Brick Oven Pizza. Does he agree with us here at HeatEatReview.com? Check out his pizza review and decide for yourself.

Over at The Impulsive Buy, Ace’s review of Lunchables Maxed Out Pepperoni Pizza reminds me of why there are so few Lunchables reviews here on HeatEatReview.com.

Cybele takes a look at Snickers Nut ‘n’ Butter Crunch. Does it contain butter? Is it nutty? You’ll have to read her review to find out the answers to both of those questions.

ZOMG! Candy’s intrepid reviewer, Rosa, sacrifices her tastebuds to tell us whether or not Target’s Choxie Key Lime Pie Truffle Bar is worth the cash.

Reading this from an iPhone? At your local convenience store? Before you go any further, read what Paddy O’ Poppycock (no, I did not make that up) has to say about the Pay Day Chocolatey Avalanche.

Drinks

Dr. Patrice over at Iatapie.net wonders “Can V8 actually make their LIGHT juice taste just as good as the original, with the same 1 serving of fruit and vegetables per cup, but with 50% less calories and sugar?” Check out her review of V8 Fusion Light Peach Mango Juice. Maybe someone will let me know how the vegetables come into play.

I am not surprised that there’s a Hooter’s Energy Drink. I’m also not surprised that the folks at Screaming Energy managed to find one. I am surprised that they didn’t choose a blonde woman for the can’s image. Way to break those stereotypes, Hooters.

Condiments

If you’re thinking about making your own Buffalo Wings for the Super Bowl, be sure to check out Clint’s review of CaJohn’s Naga Soreass Hot Sauce. Just make sure to wash your hands very, very well after making the wings. Or eating the wings. You laugh now, but you’ll be sorry later.