Chilli Up North Blog

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 [...]

I  was recently sent a little goodie back from Dartmoor Chilli Farm on it’s arrival the first thing I spotted was this chocolate and as it happened a cup of tea had just appeared on my desk at work,  as a result I ended up ripping the chocolate open in scenes reminiscent of Charlie and [...]

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about some rather delicious chilli jelly sweets, not only was I lucky enough to recieve them but Friars of Keswick also sent some Chilli Fudge. The fudge was excellent, it was really crumbly, sweet but not too sweet and had a really subtle chilli flavour that built up [...]

Last week I received these wonderful looking hot chilli jellies in the post along with some chilli fudge (more about that later), they were from Ye Olde Friars in Keswick, a shop that I have to visit every time I go to Keswick (along with Open All Hours for the beer) and until now I [...]

Every now and then you find something that really shouldn’t be tasty and you really shouldn’t like, Mattessons Vindaloo Fridge Raiders are one of those things. The packet reads “The hottest edition of Fridge Raiders ever! Chicken pieces, seasoned in a traditional Indian spice mixture of chilli, lime and garlic to satisfy even the wildest [...]

A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to win a selection of cured meats and some wonderful olive oil from TopTapas on twitter, then a couple of days ago I also received a pack of their fire chorizo. The first pack that arrived contained a mix of ham, sausage and chorizo all of which looked and [...]

These fire onions were sent to me as part of the package from Woody from Fire Foods sent me (I reviewed the chilli choc drops here). They come in the same black, red and bright yellow packaging, giving you the impression that the contents is hot and spicy, possibly bordering on dangerous. As soon as you [...]

A few days ago Woody from Fire Foods got in touch via twitter and asked if I would like to try some of his firey foods, this was too good an offer to turn down and so a couple of days later a packaged arrived containing a few of their hottest treats. I decided to [...]

Last week I received an email from Domino’s asking if I would like a voucher to sample their new Meltdown: The Revenge pizza, I gratefully accepted and waited for it to arrive in the post. More or less as soon as it came through the door I popped down to our local Domino’s to use it, the fun began [...]