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“Enjoy the bounty of the Chesapeake Bay! The sweet flavor of the blue crab combined with fresh ripe vegetables makes for an exquisite salsa. Use it as a dip or to enhance seafood dishes, omelets, salads and grilled meats.”
Pepper’s Original Blue Crab salsa has a very smooth, finely blended texture with visible strands of crab meat. It looks heavy on tomatoes and light on peppers, and smells strongly of crab. In fact, the smell is very similar to cocktail sauce.
Ingredients: Diced tomatoes, pasteurized crab meat, Diced green bell peppers, lime juice, chili peppers, natural flavors, a special blend of herbs and spices, salt.
On First Taste:
The first taste brings a strong wave of crab flavor, and follows with a saucy flavor that taste uncannily like cocktail sauce. It’s a nice, classic blend that goes together very nicely. Though, it is a little bit odd on a tortilla chip - not much like a salsa at all. There was no perceptible heat. And the taste of the peppers are very,very understated. Pepper’s Blue Crab salsa is a condiment that begs to be used with food, rather than eaten on its own.
On Food
I chose to use Pepper’s Original Blue Crab Salsa to accent a seafood dish. I took some mahi mahi, seasoned it with salt, pepper and a bit of white wine and broiled it for 7 minutes a side. I then added a spoonful of Brie to each fillet, and topped the whole thing with several spoonfuls of the salsa.
The flavor was excellent. The fish provided a mild, flavorful backdrop as the crab, tomato and brie blended sensuously. The Blue Crab salsa also excelled being warm; it brought some nice herby notes to the front. There was still no heat to speak of,the but flavor more than made up for it. If I had it to do over again, I’d probably add a touch of horseradish to the dish as well, since nothing goes better with cocktail sauce and crab than fresh horseradish.
I also tried Pepper’s Blue Crab Salsa on crackers with cream cheese, and it was fantastic. It would make a wonderful and simple appetizer to top some cream cheese with the blue crab salsa and serve with crackers.
In Conclusion:
Pepper’s Original Blue Crab Salsa brings the flavor, but leaves the heat behind. It’s not your run of the mill salsa, but it performs admirably in adding a great seafood flavor to dishes.
Packaging - Solid and attractive. 8.2 out of 10.0
Aroma - crab and cocktail sauce. 7.7 out of 10.0
Appearance - Thin, with visible crab meat. 7.6 out of 10.0
Taste - Strong crab flavor. 8.3 out of 10.0
Heat - Undetectable. 0.5 out of 10.0
Overall Rating: 7.8 out of 10.0
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There is a hotter one of this item I sell ton of this product.
Nice review - This Salsa/Sauce interesting enough to give a try!
This stuff is good. I had a jar in the fridge a while back. No heat, though. Add some Frostbite. There you go….. (Cartman voice)
The horseradish does sound like a good addition to this…
Howdy all, what is going on ??? Been out in the garden and the Hab’s are doing great. Should be another great year for them !!!!!!!!!
Hey everyone. Hot day here on the east coast and I’m loving it! Hey Mr. Freeze, got your package yesterday, thank you! Yours is on its way. Was having a hard time getting your address.
kristi on 6/28/2006 at 6:24 pm said:
Hey everyone. Hot day here on the east coast and I’m loving it! Hey Mr. Freeze, got your package yesterday, thank you! Yours is on its way. Was having a hard time getting your address.
Glad it arrived ok, hope you like it. Just cloudy and rainy here today, but we needed the rain. Looks like it is going to try to clear up now, hope it does by the weekend.
HEY! What about my package? Only thing I get in the mail is bills. 
I think it rained here for about two weeks stright, all kinds of flooding and stuff now. The sun is a very welcomed sight. I’ll let you know what I think and hope you do the same. Looks fantastic I can tell you that.
I am sure I will love your sauce……All the rain for the most part has missed us.
Tracy C on 6/28/2006 at 7:06 pm said:
HEY! What about my package? Only thing I get in the mail is bills.
Awww Tracy, you need to start to talking to people who want to give you stuff! Go yell at your friends for not sending you packages filled with surprises.
My friends want money. Of course Santa Clause is my friend, but I’ve got to be a good boy to get anything from him…
I’m heading down to Cape May for a few days and was stressing all the rain but it looks like the weather will be nice to me. We just went to Vermont for another production run and it poured the entire ride up. Six hours straight of downpouring rain. We still had fun though.
Tracy C on 6/28/2006 at 7:14 pm said:
My friends want money. Of course Santa Clause is my friend, but I’ve got to be a good boy to get anything from him…
Time to make new friends Tracy! Santa is only but once a year, you need friends who just keep on giving, no matter what time of year.
kristi on 6/28/2006 at 7:06 pm said:
I think it rained here for about two weeks stright, all kinds of flooding and stuff now. The sun is a very welcomed sight. I’ll let you know what I think and hope you do the same. Looks fantastic I can tell you that.
Still raining here. Might start reaching critical levels here as far as my chiles are concerned. Have to check on them shortly… not that there’s anything I can do about it other than sigh.
kristi on 6/28/2006 at 7:15 pm said:
I’m heading down to Cape May for a few days and was stressing all the rain but it looks like the weather will be nice to me. We just went to Vermont for another production run and it poured the entire ride up. Six hours straight of downpouring rain. We still had fun though.
How could that not be fun !!!!! Hope all turned out well…..
Tracy C on 6/28/2006 at 7:06 pm said:
HEY! What about my package? Only thing I get in the mail is bills.
Don’t cry at me bud! 
I just offered & you refused so save it 
Jim Campbell- StepUpForCharity.org on 6/28/2006 at 7:18 pm said:
Still raining here. Might start reaching critical levels here as far as my chiles are concerned. Have to check on them shortly… not that there’s anything I can do about it other than sigh.
Hope all turns out for you Jim. I have been watching the weather for the past two weeks and you guys need some sun….
We actually had our best run yet so we’re real happy. Plus we always have those”unforeseen adventures” that add that little extra!
We had several inches of rain here over the past few days. Tropical system came onshore and drowned everything. Sun is out now, but HOT and sticky! Peppers loved it, we needed it in a bad way..prolly remnants of what came through here. Sorry I couldn’t stop it.
kristi on 6/28/2006 at 7:21 pm said:
We actually had our best run yet so we’re real happy. Plus we always have those”unforeseen adventures” that add that little extra!
Got to love those” unforeseen advetures”. Like I said sounds like fun….
Hey Jim, isn’t there some type of anti-raindance you could try? Your poor chiles!
Yeah, we should all do the dance to help out Jim’s chiles. We all know how inportant those chiles are……
That just put quite a visual in my head. All sorts of chiliheads flailing around in the rain lol
kristi on 6/28/2006 at 7:31 pm said:
That just put quite a visual in my head. All sorts of chiliheads flailing around in the rain lol
That would be quite a site…………
Thanks. Cayennes got flooded two years ago- that hurt. CaJohn will be the one leading the raindance His needs are greater than mine. ‘Course Gordon, Scottie, Danny Cash, & countless others would be lining up behind him 
Jim Campbell- StepUpForCharity.org on 6/28/2006 at 7:34 pm said:
Thanks. Cayennes got flooded two years ago- that hurt. CaJohn will be the one leading the raindance
That actually sounds like something we should all put on our to do list. I’m laughing at the mere thought. Fun indeed.
Look’s like we have more storms heading our way tonight. They are west of Chicago right now heading my way. Hope they break up before they hit all of you on the east coast.
kristi on 6/28/2006 at 7:37 pm said:
That actually sounds like something we should all put on our to do list. I’m laughing at the mere thought. Fun indeed.
We could set a time and all of us chiliheads could go out in the yard and do a short little anti-rain dance.
MrFreeze on 6/28/2006 at 7:38 pm said:
Look’s like we have more storms heading our way tonight. They are west of Chicago right now heading my way. Hope they break up before they hit all of you on the east coast.
Say it ain’t so. Im going on vacation! oh well. Anything is better than going to work I suppose
MrFreeze on 6/28/2006 at 7:40 pm said:
We could set a time and all of us chiliheads could go out in the yard and do a short little anti-rain dance.
I’m all for it. Someone needs to plan a “little get together” for all of us anti-raindancers.
kristi on 6/28/2006 at 7:40 pm said:
Say it ain’t so. Im going on vacation! oh well. Anything is better than going to work I suppose
Yeah that is a fact. Not taking a vacation until late this year not sure where I am going. Although I am taking a short trip to Chicago August 4-6 to see the Red Hot Chilipeppers. Should be fun..
That sounds fun, I may have asked you this already but are you going to Zest Fest?
kristi on 6/28/2006 at 7:46 pm said:
That sounds fun, I may have asked you this already but are you going to Zest Fest?
No, I wish I was. Bu tyou never know I may just up and go. I will be there next year for sure…..
Well it would be really cool to meet you if you did decide to have one of those’unforeseen adventures” and go to TX. Have a good one, have to go pack my bathing suit and raincoat apparently! lol
Take care and have a great vacation…………..
MrFreeze on 6/28/2006 at 6:56 pm said:
Glad it arrived ok, hope you like it. Just cloudy and rainy here today, but we needed the rain. Looks like it is going to try to clear up now, hope it does by the weekend.
you guys arent swapping pictures again are you ?!? 
pmac on 6/28/2006 at 8:10 pm said:
you guys arent swapping pictures again are you ?!?
Ohhhh, pmac— now don’t get to jealous…..
pmac on 6/28/2006 at 8:10 pm said:
you guys arent swapping pictures again are you ?!?
This time it is just good ole’ hot sauce for salsa swap….
MrFreeze on 6/28/2006 at 8:14 pm said:
This time it is just good ole’ hot sauce for salsa swap….
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Have a good night all. I am off to work. Stay dry on the east coast……
For some reason that salsa looks especially good. I don’t know if its me or what, but some Prickly Pear margaritas and some chips and salsa sure do sound good about now.
Cheffy on 6/30/2006 at 5:17 pm said:
For some reason that salsa looks especially good. I don’t know if its me or what, but some Prickly Pear margaritas and some chips and salsa sure do sound good about now.
A good margarita sure sounds good to me. Matter of fact I think will make myself one right now. Got some baby back ribs on the grill should be done in a few more hours, it is the 4th weekend might just as well kick back and enjoy my 5 days off…..
I just pulled 150 racks of Baby Backs off the smoker for tonight, so Ribs don’t sound so good!!hahaha. Sad to say, but a nice burger or brat on the charcoal grill sure sounds good to me.
Hey Cheffy, where is your restaurant located?
Cheffy on 6/30/2006 at 5:36 pm said:
I just pulled 150 racks of Baby Backs off the smoker for tonight, so Ribs don’t sound so good!!hahaha. Sad to say, but a nice burger or brat on the charcoal grill sure sounds good to me.
Brats are probably for tomorrow and salamon on Sunday….. But I bet that margarita still sounds good !!!!!!!!!!
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