Chilli Up North Blog

This super hot chilli sauce came in the package that the One Stop Hot Shop sent me, along with the Old Smokey sauce. I was looking forward to giving this one a go as I’d already tried it’s hotter offspring “Son of Smart arse” a while back at a party. The label on the bottle [...]

A few days ago I was sent a huge box of goodies from Andrea over at the One Stop Hot Shop. I was quite excited about trying the hot sauces but I’d also just ran out of Mr Vikkis Smokin Ranch Sauce so was over the moon to see a bottle labelled Old Smokey. Old [...]

This is a post from Phil over at Beersay he’d been saying on twitter he got some Chilli Black Pudding to to try so I roped him into doing a review of it for me. In return please check out his  Beersay blog and follow him on twitter The Rossendale based Lancashire Black Pudding Company [...]

When having a sort out of my chilli sauces and chutneys cupboard I came across this jar of Real Ale Chilli Chutney from Dartmoor Chilli Farm, I’m not sure how long it has been in there but I’ve got a feeling it will have been in the package that contained the chilli and coffee chocolate. [...]

After a great weekend away at a wedding followed by a day walking along the stunning Northumberland Coast we had no food in so I had to call at Asda, intending to buy some bread and sandwich fillings and make my own sandwich when I spotted the Chosen By You Scorching Hot Baguette, I knew [...]

Yesterday when a press release landed in my inbox I got quite excited, Domino’s the pizza delivery expert have teamed up with legendary singing spicy sauce creator Levy Roots and released the Reggae Reggae Pizza. We’ll when I say released it’s not officially available until April 11th, but the press release said that if you [...]

Regular readers will know that a combo of Mr Vikkis and Ye Olde Friars sent me a couple of packages of hot Cumbrian goodies including the green chilli jam (thoughts on all will be coming soon). The package also included Mr Vikkis, Harry’s Smokin’ Ranch Sauce, a sweet and smokey BBQ sauce that uses the [...]

For me Seabrook crisps are totally under rated, their salt and vinegar is the perfect post hike snack with a pint in the pub, their Wasabi are possibly my favourite crisps in the world ever. Not content with doing what most crisp makers do and just use the one chilli flavour in their crisps, Seabrook [...]

A couple of weeks ago Friars of Keswick who very kindly sent me some chilli fudge and chilli jellies before sent me a few more of the yummy chilli products that they stock. This time it was a range of spicy delights from Cumbrian based Mr Vikki’s. The first of which is Mr Vikki’s Green Chilli Jam [...]

A couple of weeks ago the lovely people at WKD sent me a couple of copies of their new book “The Good Kebab GuideL A Salad-dodger’s Guide to the UK’s Best Kebabs” It’s a light heated look at some of the best kebab houses and take aways that grace our green and pleasant lands with [...]